I’m rather fond of the saying “the people get the leaders they deserve.” 

If people are so disinterested and/or stupid that they can’t be bothered to apply a modicum of critical thinking then isn’t it obvious where most of the blame sits.

I recall a dissident escaping the old USSR commenting with a mixture of surprise and disappointment that the people in the UK were no different to the people back home. He had assumed that our open democratic system was because we actively fought for it and that was why we didn’t have a totalitarian one/party system.

Apparently it’s just luck and now here and elsewhere the wheel has spun and landed on a less desirable outcome.  Temporary insanity or permanent madness?

As Joni Mitchell sang in a more idealistic time, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

Amazing symmetry on both sides of the Atlantic

Trump is now attacking the CDC and other scientists for giving him wrong advice, so its their fault! Also, some GOP states like Georgia are manipulating the data and trying to reduce the death toll, and limiting access to testing to try and get the numbers down. 

In countries with corrupt governments like the US, UK, Brazil and Russia, excess deaths may be the only accurate measure of the impact of Covid.

You cant hide bodies

This guy is a film maker if you go through to his feed (which is not declared/obvious from the video).  Any chance he might be trying to go viral?

I hope you never end up in hospital and rely on foreign doctors and nurses to care for you

Bullsjit

I'm sorry but I'm telling it like it is. Hes a filmmaker, joined the NHS a few weeks ago to get a good story and is already trying to get himself seen.  Not rounding on him for using the NHS for his own benefit are you, just blinded by the fact he's  foreign and preaching the leftist narrative?

I hope Maunder, hickster, Caz, four, westv, bleur etc watched Newsnight tonight. Incredible journalism from Lewis

Spent the day in Oxfordshire talking to carers

They tell a tale of the mistakes of this crisis, how the differences between expensive care homes and more modest ones and good and bad companies help determine who lives and who dies for both residents and carers.

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— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 20, 2020