🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating.
Much of that devastation was avoidable.
This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19
The mad emporer has triggered chaos he cannot control
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'the overall conclusion is that the scale of deaths in the first wave could have been much lower and the devastating second wave could have been largely avoided'
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Well that was nice, hope you all enjoyed it.
The people who annoy me the most these days fall into two camps: (1) literally running the world and (2) utterly irrelevant outside of their tiny corner of social media. Reactionary centrism happens when (2) bugs you more than (1)
Difficult to think of a more humiliating moment for the US. Certainly worse than Iraq or Afghanistan. You have to go back to the fall of Saigon to find anything comparable.
London: this is very, very good. Blistering assault of wit, filth and old school physical comedy. Bottom meets Hamilton meets Ren & Stimpy meets Shakespeare. I loved every second of it.
