Today I visited the National Covid Memorial Wall in London. It conveys the enormous scale of the human loss. Each heart on the wall, which stretches for 1/3 of a mile, represents one of the more than 200,000 people who have died of #COVID19 in the UK. #pandemic 1/
Thousands of the hearts include the handwritten names of the deceased, with profoundly moving expressions of the grief felt by their bereaved families. The wall is the record of an immense human tragedy, 2/
But it is also a record of a monstrous crime against humanity. Across from the wall, separated by the River Thames, looms the Houses of Parliament. There sit the politicians who implemented the disastrous herd immunity policies responsible for horrifying loss of life. 3/ 
Were a similar memorial to Covid deaths erected in the United States, the inclusion of hearts for the 1.2 million victim would require a wall that extended for at least two miles. 4/4
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