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I promised myself I’d stop ranting but a perusal of the latest government’s claims and I find I’m so angry I can’t help it. In brief (and I no longer care about the swearing – sorry.
I promised myself I’d stop ranting but a perusal of the latest government’s claims and I find I’m so angry I can’t help it. In brief (and I no longer care about the swearing – sorry.
There is a time and a place and now is IT) –
1. Hancock, do you fucking understand? The precise death toll amongst key workers should be at the very forefront of your mind, not a question that you have to defer to someone else to answer, you fucking moron.
1. Hancock, do you fucking understand? The precise death toll amongst key workers should be at the very forefront of your mind, not a question that you have to defer to someone else to answer, you fucking moron.
http://2.How"> http://2.How dare you NOT KNOW how many key workers have died in a crisis you are supposed to be managing, particularly when the reason they died is because of failure of your government to act quickly enough in providing desperately needed equipment.
3. In line with this, stop bragging about the amount of PPE you plan to deliver - as Susan Masters, national director of nursing policy at RCN said, this will only be impressive “when nursing staff stop contacting me to say what the need to use wasn’t available”..
Don’t you even DARE drop the little intimation that it’s possible that some of the care workers ‘may have caught the virus outside of work’. It’s 99.9% certain that the exposure for these people comes from the work contexts in which they are daily putting their lives on the line.
. To even insinuate that it happened anywhere else is just deeply stupid and offensive to all those key workers who have lost their lives. Furthermore it is yet another measure of how out of touch with the lives of ordinary people you and your party are.
In the UK, like the US, it is apparently ethnic minorities who are hardest hit by the virus. This is, no doubt true, but the most likely explanation for this is socioeconomic – ethnic minorities generally have more people per household and have no choice but to work to survive,
often in jobs ,e.g. transport, cleaning, shop floor retail, etc that involve greater contact with the public. To simply state the bald fact that the virus ‘affects ethnic minorities more’ and without explanation is to invite racism and racial indifference
at a time when the country is anxious, scrabbling for financial security and food and very ready to cast blame. It plays a similar nasty game to Trump’s notion of the ‘China virus’.
In the ghoulish football score of death tolls we have now beaten Spain and Italy. We are now receiving help from Germany and Turkey. So stop pumping out a smoke screen of fucking lies and further promises and fucking APOLOGISE and tell the fucking TRUTH.
You know what? – I don’t actually want to hear any more Blitz spirit stuff about how ‘wonderful our NHS is’. They are (utterly amazing and we should be eternally grateful to them - to those that survive and those that die).
But you are using this narrative to conceal the shitshow you have created through the government’s handling of this crisis – it’s tardy inaction, ineptitude, disorganisation and exceptionalism.
In a better moral world than the one we have, you would, all of you would, be held to account for criminal failure in your duty of care to all of us. Please note this thread is cut and pasted from a FB page with the authors permission. Too powerful not to be shared
