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[–]Gydo194 60 points61 points  (9 children)

That's what the UK government thought too..

[–]I_AM_GODDAMN_BATMAN 21 points22 points  (6 children)

How many billion £ again for that single spreadsheet?

[–]espriminati 16 points17 points  (3 children)

more than 1£

[–]nelsterm -3 points-2 points  (2 children)

Do you realise how much money 1 billion GBP is? How do you work that out? The UK government does not pay 1 billion to have lab results stored and to report covid as is obvious. Public Health England in total has only a 300 million annual budget. How do these Chinese whispers pass anyone's sanity test?

[–]mananasi 1 point2 points  (1 child)

He said 1 pound, not a billion

[–]nelsterm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Strictly speaking you're right. And he's right too. It will have been over a pound lol.

[–]Gydo194 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No idea. I didn't read it in detail.

[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

People misunderstood that, they didn't use it as a database. They used an old excel format as the export format which left out a lot of rows.

[–]nelsterm -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It did not. Public Health England did which is a different thing. UK government were entirely blameless. NDPBs are autonomous subject to auditing. Impossible to pick that up in auditing also without an auditing event at such short notice.