... the erosion and undermining of vital national INSTITUTIONS such as BBC NEWS, which need to be seen to be free from political interference and partisanship; through a combination of financial cuts, politicised editorial decision making and existential threats over many years..

... the failure of the UK GOVERNMENT to do ANYTHING of note the moment it became clear that a new killer, airborne pneumonia that killed 2% - 5% of those infected in CHINA. The PM went on holiday to MUSTIQUE and missed 5 COBRA emergency planning meetings....

... at the start of the COVID19 OUTBREAK in the UK, the PRIME MINISTER publicly went against basic scientific advice by SHAKING HANDS with people on hospital wards full of COVID19 patients. He then went on to infect himself, colleagues, co-workers and probably others...

... the UK still lacks a scientifically robust STRATEGY for escaping the COVID19 epidemic and suffering from years of uncontrollable outbreaks. There's still not been a strict + organised attempt to eliminate the disease from the UK population. This seems to be an early choice...

... day-to-day TACTICS have been all over the place with little to no scientific coherence in political decision making. Many statements appear to be based on reactions to events or political expediency rather than factual evidence, objective criteria or rational thought...

... the implied suggestion that we are all being deeply unfair and unreasonable, and should simply MOVE ON, when we are lied to by politicians who know exactly what they are doing... The lack of public ACCOUNTABILITY for political advisors...

... the tolerance of political advisors who have been found in CONTEMPT OF PARLIAMENT in SAGE meetings, No. 10 DOWNING STREET and elsewhere across WHITEHALL...

... the flawed and blinkered assumptions about COVID19, a new virus for humans that had recently crossed over from other species. False parallels were rapidly drawn with flu, rather than with SARS and MERS and things went downhill from there...

... the lack of FLEXIBLE THINKING and IMAGINATION when dealing with this new zoonotic disease has been staggering. The failure to consider CHILDREN as VECTORS OF INFECTION, even if the majority are not obviously or immediately harmed by the disease, has been reckless + foolish...

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