Nearly 1,000 reported deaths in a single day, the worst rate in Europe, worse than it ever got in Italy, no sign of slowing down, NHS beginning to really struggle under the pressure, front line medics still with no proper protective gear, still no sign of mass testing and contact tracing, government busy building mass morgues to deal with the soaring death toll ...
This was the worst day yet in a tragic sequence of events that was clearly and undeniably exacerbated by 10 years of Tory austerity cuts to the NHS, and by Boris Johnson's incredibly lackadaisical "inaction plan" in the crucial early weeks of the crisis when we should have been social distancing, testing, contact tracing, quarantining the infected, and urgently sourcing proper protective gear for medics and other essential workers.
And yet the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg actually tweets about "much better news than yesterday", and half of the hack pack are still fixated on pushing the distraction tactic of this fawning vigil for Boris Johnson, despite the fact they've kept telling us that he's not even seriously ill!
At a time when we need incisive journalists to unrelentingly hold the government to account, we're stuck with a hopeless bunch of grovelling forelock-tugging stenographers who actually seem to believe that their jobs is to perform desperate damage limitation PR fire-fighting on a daily basis on behalf of the Tory government, rather than taking them to task.
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