Thread by @Prolapsarian

This isn't a story about normal British incompetence. Boris Johnson isn't David Brent. It's a story about a government of opportunists and eugenicists that has hamstrung the health service, a government who decided old people and disabled people weren't worth saving (or who

thought that there might even be benefits to killing them off.) It's a story about private contracts for the old boys club while public health and the NHS are frozen out. It's a story about banal and glib hatred of poor people. It is about a government who became convinced that

they should ignore the pandemic and persistently try to open the economy at the earliest possible moment. After 100,000 deaths nobody wants to hear about how the Prime Minister will take responsibility. He won't. This lot need clearing out. The entire government should resign.

And if they don't resign then people should be forcibly removed, and replaced by a government that will look after the people's health. How dare they say they did all they could. I'll tell you what they did: They opened the universities and the schools, forced people back into

unsafe workplaces, took sick and infectious people into care homes, all while cutting deals to line the pockets of their mates. They pursued a herd-immunity strategy by stealth. And then they had the brass neck to blame the people for the catastrophe that ensued. None of this

needed to happen. There was nothing inevitable about it. Boris is only saying he will take responsibility because everyone knows that he won't. And people will clap and cheer as this cabinet of butchers is allowed to carry on. I am done with it. In their refusal to act they have

murdered tens of thousands of people who are weaker, poorer, and more disadvantaged than them. They have behaved like people's deaths don't matter because the people who died were older or disabled. And still they are lining their pockets. People need to know what has happened.

And for those of you who are worried about the economy, what they have done has destroyed jobs and businesses for no reason. Countries that took a serious approach to COVID saw jobs and industry saved. Here we have enormous new national debts, and an unemployment crisis.

Other countries worked out that the economy is can be damaged by a massively deadly infectious disease, while our government sacrificed the national economy for a quick bucks for a few of their mates.

Sorry I am in a fury. But it is galling to see this government, who only recognise deaths when the number of them is so impossibly large that it is inconceivable. I am so sorry to everyone who has lost people who are close.

Here is another thread on the Government’s continuing disastrous strategy announced today:

https://twitter.com/Prolapsarian/status/1354431822847856640