Thread by @RestoreHope_20

.@BorisJohnson: "...One of the theories is that... you know... perhaps you could sort of take it on the chin... Take it on in one go and allow the disease as it were to move through the population..." 100,000 #COVID19 deaths later... #ResignJohnson

A catalogue of costly errors, the refusal to heed scientific advice at crucial pinch-points and the absence of any real strategy set the UK on a collision course with tragedy.
independent.co.uk/news/health/co…

Unlike fellow island nation New Zealand, which rapidly got on top of the virus, the UK did nothing to close its borders to travellers from China or other hard-hit countries, or impose strict quarantine restrictions on arrivals from elsewhere.
theguardian.com/world/2021/jan…

...When are the “Covid Recovery Group” going to take some responsibility for the fact their science-free objections to taking action in timely fashion means we all have to pay a heftier and lengthier price at the back end of the lockdown instead? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

...The catalogue of errors — from Dominic Cummings’s lockdown-breaking visit to Durham to the bungled programme to buy protective equipment, the shambles over test and trace and the school exam fiasco — is familiar...
ft.com/content/675d73…

...The concept of ‘taking it on the chin’ and letting the virus run wild was at the heart of Government policy for more than two months...
bylinetimes.com/2020/04/03/the…

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1354116578586066946?s=20

https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1354358264314654722?s=20

...Ed Davey, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, is calling for the Prime Minister to hold an inquiry into the pandemic now, arguing lessons can be learned from the past 11 months that could help save lives...
heraldscotland.com/news/19039463.…

https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1354118867652665344?s=20

https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1354350355363078145?s=20

https://twitter.com/SamuelKOfficial/status/1353425502392836097?s=20

https://twitter.com/GMB/status/1354335227947188225?s=20

https://twitter.com/BylineTimes/status/1353602771996573702?s=20

"...I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands,” he said..."
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

Here are five ways the #Tory government could have avoided 100,000 #Covid19 deaths...
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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