We could have tried to protect every person, to collectively act as a country to stop the virus. Instead we got an asset-stripping kleptocracy, who murdered the weak. The public went along with it because they thought the equity in their houses was worth more than anything.

I spent a decade writing about the Holocaust. There’s a question people always ask: how were normal people convinced to go along with it. Now you know. It isn’t comparable, but every day for half a year the Telegraph has argued for just letting old and disabled people die. And

I come on twitter every day and people are, en masse, making the same arguments: that the lives of older people, disabled people, immunosuppressed people, poor people, BAME people, are not worthy of protection. Or if they are protection means “locking them up.” I never thought I

Would see normal people getting up and going on the internet to make arguments for why the weak should all die. But it’s happening now. Sure, it’s dressed up in words like “herd immunity” and “shielding” and “Great Barrington Declaration.” Sure they made it look “scientific.”

I find the whole thing utterly disturbing. Even more so when there are good ways to stop the virus (all evidence shows a very solid 10 week lockdown, followed by proper contact tracing and real case isolation - as opposed to a message to “stay at home” - actually works.) This

Effective cure to our collective sickness could be enacted at any time. We know it would work. It is significantly better than “living with the virus.”