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Now is not the time.

Now is not the time to ask Where are the masks and the gowns?
Now is not the time to ask Where are the tests?
Now is not the time to ask Why don't the tests work?
Now is not the time to ask why we've bought millions more tests – and they don't work, either.

Now is not the time to ask Where are the Rolls Royce ventilators?
Now is not the time to ask Where are the Dysons?

Now is not the time to discuss pay rises for nurses.
Now is not the time to ask when the financial support – if it is real – will actually arrive?

Now is not the time to ask why didn't we act earlier when we knew this was coming?
Now is not the time to challenge the government.
Now is not the time for Parliament to be recalled.
Now is not the time for journalists to challenge Ministers.

Now is not the time to ask why 'herd immunity' was a serious strategy.
Now is not the time to ask, lockdowns aside, whether 'herd immunity' is not still the strategy.
Now is not the time to ask How do we actually get out of this? What, then, is the plan?

Now is not the time to ask Who's actually in charge?

Now is not the time to depress people.
Now is not the time to frighten people.
Now is not the time.

Now is not the time to ask whether our loved ones, in their thousands, needed to die.

Now is not the time to ask How many more? How many more of our loved ones need to die?

Now is not the time.

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