Cast your mind back to the first week of May last year, when the UK racked up the worst Covid death total in Europe, a milestone even the Tory-friendly arms of the media couldn't ignore. That was 29,000 total deaths.
We will have racked up 30,000 deaths in January 2021
alone. This is a direct result of not closing the schools months earlier (as the scientists whose work the government claims to be guided by were begging them to do), a half-arsed tier system when a lockdown at least as strict as the one in March '20 was required (and which they
still haven't done) and the utterly deranged Christmas relaxation of the rules.
On Jan 1st, epidemiologist Dr Deepti Gurdasani tweeted:
Unfortunately between 20-25,000 deaths in January are already baked in, given most of those who will die in the next 3-4 weeks have already been infected. But if we don't act now, we'll see many more in February, and the real risk that the NHS will not be able to treat everyone.
People reacted with horror, but that turns out to have been an
underestimate. I'm genuinely unable to comprehend why even the staunchest Tory media outlet isn't calling for Johnson's head.
