"As Matt Hancock told us this week, thanks to the wonders of science, 1.3 million people in the UK have now been vaccinated. Science is a field of endeavour previously closed to Britain by the EU, as he has pointed out many times.
"This is almost the same number of people who currently have the virus, which means we’ve vaccinated everyone. We’ve done it. And in record time.
But wait, not the same people, you say.
But wait, not the same people, you say.
"Possibly, but it’s an unhelpful distinction only really of interest to public health experts, journalists and other known troublemakers.
"Part of the problem is the vocal minority of Hancock deniers, sceptics who simply refuse to believe that the health secretary exists despite all the evidence to the contrary:
"his grave, cheerful, chiding and lachrymose performances for the cameras; his uplifting and occasionally factual tweets and the wildly successful test and trace system he has presided over – a system that is by all accounts the envy of the world."
There is a lot of competition, but this could well be the best yet by the fragrant @jtweeterson: usuallyelsewhere.com/2021/01/06/the…
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