Thread by @gnomeicide

Another 489 needless and preventable fatalities due to Covid-19 announced in the UK yesterday. We may be reaching a new crisis point (1)

The recent trend is, sort of, kind of static. This reflects what lockdown 2 looked like - it stopped deaths rising. It hasn't caused a reduction in the death rate (2)

We'll break through 70,000 deaths soon, even using the governments entirely arbitrary and statistically shitty 28 day cutoff trick. (3)

There isn't any particular definition of a 'wave' of an epidemic. But you can see in the above graph in (3) that we're not out of wave 2 yet. And wave 2 has gone on considerably longer than wave 1. We had seen 2 solid months of deaths going down by now in wave 1 (4)

Since mid of November we have been needlessly and callously squandering 3000 lives a week. For no gain. For no purpose other than the vanity of a government that failed to value the lives of your loved ones. The result is a higher economic cost than in competing economies. (5)

There are no positives to Britains response to Covid. It has been and remains an unmitigated disaster. With effectively no change in the daily death rate we have -nothing- positive to report. (6)

Test, track and trace continues to fail. This isn't talking NHS track and trace down, its a measurable and demonstrable fact. We are diagnosing an ever lower proportion of those with the condition. We haven't come close to getting this right since August (7)

Our chaotic daily reporting masks the reality that on average 434 people are dying per day. (8)

I want to have something positive to say. I honestly can't think of anything. Our testing data appears to be nonsense, but it is undeniable that we're finding more positive cases and if that is true we're going to see deaths rise soon - and potentially massively (9)

We are in trouble. The economic hit is inexorably linked to a human cost. How much are you willing to pay, financially and in terms of the lives our government is expending, before you're angry enough to require better? What will it take for Britain to say we've had enough? (fin)