The COVID elephant in the room

Some 97,329 people have so far died from COVID using the Government's narrow definition. This week that will pass 100,000.

A truly shocking firgure, and if 18 months ago you would have said that such a death toll, caused by Government inaction and moor judgement, and yet mostly ignored by the national press, with the exception of the Daily Star, they wouldn't have believed you.

And yet for two weekends now, the Sunday Torygraph has lead on the so-called "war on woke", creating culture wars where there is no need, when forcus on the carnage unfolding in our hospitals is largly ignored. The Torygraph and the rest like to spin the lie that somehow, we the people are to blame for the rise in infections, when it is the mixed messages and confusing number of laws, guidance and regulations that have been updated since the beginning of March every 4 or 5 days, on average.

To my knowledge, just one person, Adam Wagner, a solictor, has kept track of these, and offers overview videos to act as common sense guidance.

We have the situation where outdoor gatherings are beig demonised, but at the same time, due to the word salad that poured ut of the Home Secretary's mouth on Friday, apparently indoor gatherings of up to 15 seem to be allowed. When the SIs cleary says thare are not.

The UK has sped £32 billion on track and trace through Dido Harding, and the system, centralised, has failed to work. Germany spent £50 million on theirs, and it works.

Cnservatives, either in the UK or in the US, like to spend money until it comes to the point they're not in power when they become deficit hawks.

Make no mistake, through dither and delay, spaffing £50 billion or more on track and trace, PPE, Operation Moonshot and the rest, coupled with the highest death toll (per capita) and the deepest recession, the UK will take longer to recover, and have to do it with Brexit too. History has taught us thanks to Spansih Flu, that jobs saved now means an easier, quicker recovery, and spending a country's way out of recession is the only way forward. But the right don't like to spend on those that need it, happy they are to enrich their friends through tax cuts of cushty procurement contracts, but natioanl projects, creating jobs and skill for life for the poorest, hardest hit is an anathema to them.

As is admitting their mistakes.

We can have an inquiry into COVID, but not to allocate blame, because no number of deaths can do that.