Covid-19 reveals misunderstanding of the lab sector

摘要

Has there ever been a time when laboratories were more of a political football than at present? When the lies and deceit of government ministers put our industry under such scrutiny,wim so little appreciation of what it is,does,or is capable of? The generous part of my soul(and there is one) wants to believe them when they say they are’ramping up’Covid-19 diagnostic testing to the tens or hundreds of thousands per week.It would be easier to do so if they had demonstrated good faith in earlier statements.Such as those as long ago as February,claiming(lying) that the UK was”well prepared’for a pandemic which,even then,was clearly going to change everything.It would be easier to believe them if the numbers quoted had not been apparently plucked from thin air by whichever vacuous apparatchik happened to be still standing to deliver the latest soothing words to attempt to calm an anxious nation.