26 February

Covid almost completely absent from the news now. Failed leaders like Johnson and Morrison seeing a war as a platform to rescue their own careers. More than 9000 people are still dying of Covid every day around the world. If over 60,000 people died in the Ukraine every week in this war, we’d be horrified. We’ve been killing that many with Covid for 2 years, and many still act as if the whole thing was a sniffle. We can deal with two disasters at once. The pandemic will still kill far more people than any war. The war will in fact escalate Covid deaths as well, not least because we seem unable to focus on both at once.