Poop, you first have to have confidence in the test. And then you need to be able to mass produce it, at a time when demand for the chemicals and technology is at a record high. Spain sent a bunch back to China because they were unreliable. No test is better than a bad test.

Just because you're ignorant and don't inform yourself doesn't mean everyone else is the same.
Needlessly harsh. Very few people knew what was coming, back in Feb most people thought this would be contained, like SARS. I wasn't ignorant, I was naive and complacent, along with the vast majority of people.

You say "mass testing" like it's a simple solution. It is not. If it were, we'd be doing it. We are doing isolation and social distancing.

And don't stretch the truth. I wasn't bitching about bog roll, I was amused by the panic buying. And I never suggested social distancing would trigger riots, I thought the danger was opportunistic twats who want to kick off, like when Mark Duggan got himself shot.

The fact is, the UK gov't thought the people would rather perserve the economy than people's lives. They got it wrong, and then they tried to change course. But they're still fucking it up as it goes on.

This isn't a fact. It's your interpretation. This could all have been a strategy to control panic. It could be incompetence. It could global fascist powers taking control. It could be biowarfare and we tried to do that thing where you take a punch and pretend it didn't hurt. I have no idea, so I'll reserve judgement.