The official statistics state that 563 people died of Covid-19 yesterday, meaning we're still on course to end up in a situation at least as bad as Italy in a couple of weeks.
We know that the real number of deaths is significantly higher, because Covid-19 deaths that occur outside of hospitals (home isolation, nursing homes, etc) are not being recorded.
The Office for National Statistics has estimated that 23% of deaths were missed out from the figures in the period up to March 20th.
As hospitals become ever more overwhelmed with coronavirus cases, the proportion of deaths occurring outside of hospitals is clearly going to rise dramatically, so these figures need to be collated and published too.
We're now paying the cost, measured in hundreds of lives per day, of the government decision to let the virus spread like wildfire through the population in the crucial early weeks, instead of testing, contact tracing, and establishing quarantine centres for the infected.
The consequences of this pseudo-scientific 'let it spread' inaction plan aren't just limited to the horrifying death toll either.
Letting the virus spread throughout the population for weeks has turned it into an invisible enemy that's going to continue eroding away at the essential workforce who are keeping the country running in this emergency backup state we're stuck in.
A significant proportion of the infected show only very mild symptoms, or no symptoms at all, which means there are a large number of spreaders in the essential workforce who don't even know they're spreading it.
The lack of proper protective gear for NHS workers makes them especially vulnerable to the risk of infection.
We're lagging miles behind other countries on the testing front. Germany is conducting more Covid-19 tests per day than we're conducting per week! South Korea scaled up to 10,000 tests per day within a week of their first case. The UK government is still only averaging 7.500 tests per day eight weeks after our first case!
Allowing the virus to continue spreading untested and untraced through the essential workforce presents a very significant risk. The risk of collapsing health systems, supply chains, and essential services due to massive labour shortfalls.
Without any serious moves towards mass testing, it's clear that the government is still pursuing their pseudo-scientific "herd immunity" strategy, but just with the name changed, and Britain's essential workforce being used as the viral breeding ground.
It's absolutely scandalous that the UK government decided to defy the World Health Organisation pandemic protocol in the crucial early stages.
It's absolutely scandalous that the UK government is lagging so far behind other developed nations on the testing front.
It's absolutely scandalous that the UK government is still failing to provide proper protective gear to front line NHS workers who desperately need to be kept healthy as the coronavirus caseload continues soaring.
And it's absolutely scandalous that NHS workers are being spied on and threatened with disciplinary action for speaking out on social media about the dire lack of protective gear.
It's obvious that the pro-establishment lackeys in the mainstream media won't hold the government to account for any of this, so it's up to us, the public, to make as much noise as we can.
We need to demand mass testing, and we need to demand proper protective gear for NHS medical staff, and we need to demand punishment for those in government who decided that 'let vast numbers of people die by allowing the virus to spread' was an acceptable strategy.
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