UK Covid deaths are on the rise again, but keep calm and keen on shopping.
UK Covid deaths are on the rise again, but keep calm and keen on shopping.
The only masking that’s going on is that of the government’s continued failure to get to grips with the virus, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
One day traveling London = 3 days in bed (at time of writing) with COVID.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A notice, photographed and posted on social media last week, tells people that while they are “no longer required to wear a mask in this area”, they should use hand sanitiser “to protect our vulnerable patients, visitors and our staff”.
Despite a collapse in testing, which means the figures will be grossly understated, the number of death certificates giving Covid-19 as a cause has been climbing steadily as autumn approaches, rising from 80 per week in early August to 306 in late September.
From junior doctors to consultants, they’ve been abandoned by the system, unable to get appointments or referrals, left alone to face the loss of their careers and almost every other aspect of their lives.
Long Covid is so debilitating that a study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) this year found many who suffer it reported a lower quality of life than people with stage 4 lung cancer.
It’s masking the ableism its rhetoric has encouraged: the othering and blaming of those who contract the disease, driven by the widespread but wholly mistaken belief that fit and healthy people don’t catch it.
These facts – and these people – are treated as social embarrassments, locked in the government’s moral attic like a relative with a mental illness in Victorian England.
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Covid hysteria has been eye-opening for everyone, and the population will never accept another lockdown. Nor should they. Flu remains far more “deadly,” and we don’t lock down every winter for good reason. Most people have nothing to fear. If you’re old and immunocompromised, get your vaccines. If you’re not, stay healthy and live your life.