The normalisation of suffering is astounding, in its speed and scope. Here's @grantshapps talking about "a long tail" - that is of a long tail of dead people - and celebrating a daily total of 176 deaths. Greece has had 180 fatalities through the entire pandemic so far. #r4today
By the way, feel free to adjust the UK's estimated 50,000-60,000 dead for population size, density, for geography, and for any spurious factor you want. And let me know if you get anywhere near economically ravaged Greece's 180 total, without "the UK gov't completely f***ed up".
Isn't Grant MARVELLOUS. Isn't this government BRILLIANT. Look at the stats yesterday. Only a handful more dead than the Piper Alpha explosion or the Aberfan landslide. Only about three-and-a-half times the dead of the 7/7 bombings. They're doing SO WELL.
