The COVID story is ideal political cover, regardless of the truth, which never mattered
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NOTE: This post was written in November 2020. Some updates now included. What will I say to Mum? When news of the first dozen COVID cases was broadcast my Mum panicked. Facts could not persuade her about the true scale of the disease. It didn’t matter what the proportion of deaths COVID was responsible for, nor the chance of even more deaths from our policy reaction. It was “bad news” and “something must be done”.
The COVID story is ideal political cover, regardless of the truth, which never mattered
The COVID story is ideal political cover…
The COVID story is ideal political cover, regardless of the truth, which never mattered
NOTE: This post was written in November 2020. Some updates now included. What will I say to Mum? When news of the first dozen COVID cases was broadcast my Mum panicked. Facts could not persuade her about the true scale of the disease. It didn’t matter what the proportion of deaths COVID was responsible for, nor the chance of even more deaths from our policy reaction. It was “bad news” and “something must be done”.