Thread by @gameoldgirl

Thread from another planet:
This is an extract from today’s Daily Mail leader, which is headlined “PM can bounce back from this humbling”.
First it describes his remorse as “sincere”, then congratulates his “masterstrokes”...
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...Then it says that if he lifts remaining restrictions we will be 1st developed country to exit pandemic - and he will be a "hero".

Exit the pandemic?
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The official Covid death figure yesterday was 398, the highest for a year. The day before it was 379.
The rolling weekly toll is 1,724, up 44% on last week.
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The total number of people who have died after catching the virus passed (virtually unremarked) 150k over the weekend, almost exactly a year after going through the 100k barrier.
And back then we hadn’t had the “world-beating” vaccination programme.
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Fewer people may be dying *of* covid than *with* covid. And many die of something completely unrelated a month after a + test (including one of my own family).
But official stats don’t include covid-related deaths of people die more than a month after testing +ve
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And there are more of those, as @whippletom explained in this admirable Times anti-vax debunker on New Year's Day.
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@whippletom Incidentally, the Times is the only paper still publishing detailed daily stats. Almost everyone else pretends it’s all over. For the Mail, the 398 dead were a subordinate clause on the 7th of its 8 Covid pages - on a story headlined “At last! Isolation set to be cut..."
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@whippletom Everyone wants to get back to normal. We do need to take responsibility for our own health and well-being. But to use words like “masterstrokes” and “hero” about Boris Johnson, today of all days, beggars belief.

Rant over. Have a nice afternoon

Incidentally, if by chance you're in the mood for more #GameOldRanting, you might like to look back at this, written the week after that Downing St "work event" last spring.
theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news-uk…