[covid] I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards … Dr Rachel Clarke reminds us of the UK governments appalling errors and inertia during the Covid-19 Pandemic. ‘During the first three months of 2020, in short, Johnson’s inertia was almost unbearable for NHS staff to watch, because we knew full well that its price was about to be met by the “herd” – that the bodies were indeed going to pile high around us. We knew this because it was already happening elsewhere. First in Wuhan. Then in northern Italy. By early March, people were dying in such numbers in Lombardy that military trucks were deployed to take the mounds of coffins from overwhelmed local crematoria. Yet while NHS England liaised with ice rinks about the cold storage of mass casualties (as I know from a private conversation with a senior figure there at this time), Johnson sat among 82,000 rugby fans in the cramped stands at Twickenham, watching England and Wales play. In public health terms, the optics screamed blithe complacency.’
A Doctor Reminds Us About The British Government’s Appalling Covid-19 Response
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