Trust me, if you had been in or near a Covid ward, if you had been struggling for breath with no idea whether they'd end up intubating you, or whether you'd see your family, or even a whole human face again, if you had felt that icy fear, the terrifying loneliness of it...

/1

... you would NEVER spout that "we'll just have to learn to live alongside it" BS. Instead, you'd want, as I do - on behalf of all those who have suffered, who have died, who have nursed and attended - to punch the f*cking lights out of anyone who repeats it...

/2

.. and as for the academics, those few, those happy few, who for reasons of attention or contrariness or stupidity or sponsorship - God knows - who, without submitting to peer review, pronounce with gravitas these same "it's just flu" lies...

/3

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

13 Aug

One more thing while I'm venting:

How, HOW, has it been that the politicians destroying the UK have managed to claim to be patriots, and decry their detractors as traitors? HOW?

How can those who have shamed their country on the international stage, who have literally turned their backs on our European neighbours in a show of teenage petulance, how can they be the patriots?

How can those who have kicked their own country out of the market square, like sulking cheats caught leaning on the scales, be the patriots?

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

29 Jul

There's an idea with alarming currency which suggests that young people, who are less likely to suffer and die with Covid, should not have their lives "put on hold", and older and more vulnerable folk should hide away while the young get on and go about their business.

/1

@bbcnickrobinson

That this idea is still given credence - eg @bbcnickrobinson put it to the WHO Europe fella today on R4 - makes me feel sick.

What kind of society needs reminding that we each have a duty to protect our parents, our families, and the wider community?

/2

Because the point isn't that the young are safer; that's only half the story. The other half is that what they might spread is massively, cataclysmically lethal.

In no other circumstance would we defend lethal behaviour on the basis of the individual's own comparative safety.
/3

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

30 May

What the Prosecco-drinking doomster/gloomster/snowflakes who predict 2nd and 3rd surges don't understand is that we hold all the cards in this battle, with our "world-beating" tracing system and our status as "international buyer of choice" for PPE.

The doomsters moaned and cried big tears that it would be "Armageddon" if we didn't lock down early, but look outside? Do you see Armageddon? No! Our brilliant NHS coped, didn't it?

But STILL they moan, inventing "65,000 deaths", etc. You lost, lockdown moaners! Get over it!

Lesser countries can only look at how we've taken back control from the virus and weep (behind their scaredy-cat masks) at their own Johnny-foreigner ineptitude.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

12 Apr

I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to characterise myself as Churchill.

If I wanted people to look outwards, somewhere else, over there, to a conveniently invisible enemy, and rally blindly behind me.

1/7

If I wanted to deflect responsibility for my hollow words, my failure to deliver even basic testing, masks and gloves.

If I wanted to divert attention away from my arrogant denial of the threat, even though it was clearly coming.

2/7

I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to divert attention away from my murderous, eugenicist, early policy of "herd immunity".

From my lies about being "guided by the science" while ignoring the advice of the WHO and countries already in crisis.

3/7

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