1. "We discharged known, suspected, and unknown cases into care homes which were unprepared, with no warning that the patients were infected, no testing available, and no PPE to prevent transmission. We actively seeded this into the very population that was most vulnerable."

2. “We let these people die without medical care. The official policy was for doctors not to visit care homes – and they didn’t.

So, after infecting them with a disease that causes an unpleasant ending, we denied our elders access to a doctor and denied admission to hospital."

3. Simple things like fluids were withheld. Effective pain relief like syringe drivers, withheld.

Dying elders were cared for by minimum wage care home workers without protective equipment.

They died without pain relief and without seeing their families.

4. The UK care home policy was in practical terms similar to the Siege of Caffa in 1346.

That grim chapter of the Black Death when a Mongol army catapulted plague-ridden bodies over the walls.

The way we have treated our most vulnerable is truly shocking.

We should be ashamed.

The government directed the NHS to abandon our most vulnerable.