Are you joking? These people are politicians and are accountable for their actions and decisions. The cabinet is made up of rabid Brexieers who have made it an incredibly uncomfortable place for immigrant workers to ply their trade.
Here is the warning 4 years ago that they chose to ignore:
Brexit 'will make NHS staff shortages worse'
Here is the reality:
More than 22,000 EU nationals have left NHS since Brexit referendum, figures show
If now, during a crisis, when we are building emergency hospitals that we do not have enough staff to actually service is not the time to hold these people accountable for their statements and their decisions that have lead to this farcical level of unpreparedness, when exactly do you think that time will be?
Let them crack on with blaming footballers for earning too much money, NHS staff for frivolous use of PPE equipment and while mortality figures are smashing ahead as #1 in Europe, we should all be using this as a time to celebrate Boris's sudoku spirit instead.
You can feck right off if you expect me to be OK with that attitude.
Ok, firstly what did hancock blame footballers for? Im not sure he blamed them for anything, certainly not in relation to the coronavirus.
Regarding staffing numbers, i think its true to say that most countries are struggling with skilled trained icu doctors and nurses at this time. From whats been reported its a very skilled and specialist job for someone to intubate someone with coronavirus.
Now i dont know if thats the sort of person that has left the NHS as you have alluded to or not.
I do come back to my original point though that the governments imigration policy should not be debated at this time.
I see Germany have been taking patients from Spain and italy, i also see china have sent doctors to other countries.
As other people have pointed out, no western country has been able to contain this pandemic without resorting to measures unheard of in all our lifetimes.
You accused matt hancock of 'blaming' footballers in your post, it seems to me that people want to blame all sorts of things for our situation. Blame china, blame Trump, blame Tories, Blame idiots not following the guidelines.
Truth is as far as i can see, this has been a perfect storm brewing for years helped by so many things, international travel, secretive governments covering up, high density of population, wet markets, etc etc etc. You seem keen to blame government cuts but in my opinion there are so many more facets to this