Covid where will the money come from

[dvshannow]

Anyone else fed up with the amount of money the government is ploughing into Covid without seeming to have much thought?

35bn in furlough scheme now of which 3-4bn estimated and who knows if more has been paid out in error/fraud

Now they are talking about a 100bn moonshot programme to test millions a day, worst part being so little information about this and why they think it will work / how they will do it

Think about this - that’s already 135bn right there, that is 2300 per person

An average family of 4 had 9000 taxes to pay to just fund the 2 Covid schemes above , if you happen to be working it will of course be more and high income a lot more

The accountability of the government does not seem to be there right now, their performance has been rubbish - population very dissatisfied dispute one of the most costly/generous furlough schemes and biggest economic hit in the g8

100bn if Covid mutates might be money wasted, it might not work , or like most other schemes the government tries (nhs testing app eg) run hopelessly late over budget and just become a giant black hole of taxpayer funds

I’m all for tacking the disease hence the frustration with the seeming lack of strategic and scientific thought being applied by our leaders

[The spinner of plates]

We'll be paying it back for a generation, that's for sure.

But in unforeseen circumstances like this, they're damned if they do and they're damned if they don't.

Also, not a GG topic

Try NP&E if you dare! It can be a bit weird in there

[Scrump]

Plenty of threads in N,P&E discussing this.
Try here:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
here:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
and here for starters:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...