Tuesday

Politicians like to take credit for things. So if you see something went well, they will be lining up to share in the successful event's or policy's reflected glory.

Good ideas are almost always theirs.

Bad ideas are always someone else's fault. Nothing to do with them.

They were following the science.

Of following the public's will.

If Brexit was such a great idea Johnson for one would be claiming credit. But he just "got it done", not because if was a good idea or would be successful, but to get it done.

Same with PPE procurement and COVID-19 testing.

They followed the science, and don't you know there's a pandemic on?

That supplies were left to get so low, some supplies sent to China, means that some front line staff were left wearing raincoats when treating patients.

But the Home Secretary is "sorry if you feel there isn't enough PPE|", and the Health Secretary accusing doctors and nurses of not using PPE correctly.

You would think that from the coverage on the BBC all was going swimmingly well in the UK, nearly 500 people died yesterday. In hospitals. That's the equivalent of a Boeing 747 crashing, and this is some kind of political triumph. No one is counting the bodies in care homes, of the patients or the staff. One care home company reported fatalities increasing 60% over the weekend.

Someone will count the bodies. One day.

So many deaths, they are just statistics, and yet popping up on my Twitter feeds are posts by those who have lost loved ones. One man lost his girlfriend after she had been in hospital for 5 weeks. He never go to see her in those 5 weeks, they never married. That was one of 500 deaths yesterday. You can humanise one death, but not 500.