Operation save Christmas meant people could mix with other households, for at least a day, inside. Eating, drinking, being merry and spreading infection.
No one should be in any doubt by now on how the timeline of COVID progresses; one to two weeks before the initial infections shows, one to two weeks after that before hospitalisations occur, then two weeks after that when people start to die.
We are four weeks after Christmas, and with the infections, hospitalisations phase now passing, we are seeing the deaths. 1610 yesterday.
One thousand six hundred and ten deaths. Mothers, Fathers, brothers, sister, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours; one thousand six hundred and ten of them. Another demonstrations of failing to understand, or ignoring the long term effects of a short term policy in order to get good headlines in Fleet Street.
This is the cost.
16.7 Hillsboroughs. Just no bodies seen being taken away on makeshift stretchers made from advertising boards. The deaths are still happening. Overflow morgues are being opened, ICUs being overrun.
It was once again shown how those countries with the largest death totals will suffer the biggest economic hit in the long term.
Oh bugger.
Just as well we haven't done anything to impede economic activity recently.
Oh bugger, bugger.
And the decision not to extend the transistion was made by the UK Government, they could have made things slightly less shit.
But didn't.
Dogma triumphed over public health and sheer common sense.
Johnson, Gove and the rest should end up in jail at the end of this. They'll end up in the House of Lords, of course, snouts in the trough, immunie to the desolation they caused.
They was it always was, they way it'll always be.
Hope y'all enjoyed your turkey, not it's our time to be roasted.
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