26 January

Hmm, not sure the UK is a country. Boris talking today about people in the ‘front line’ of the pandemic, health care workers. It’s a revealing and common metaphor. Pandemics happen in clusters, not lines. It matters, people like Boris have refused to act on the clusters, because it means public health restrictions throughout the community, and that would damage their beloved economy. Instead they just let the virus spread, and victims then ‘lined’ up at the hospitals.