1 January

Health staff being forced back to work to stop the hospital system collapsing should make us all extremely angry. Especially when accompanied with day after day of bullshit vomiting out of the mouths of politicians about how it’s all under control. Grown ups would care about this stuff, so what are we all now? Just eternal teenagers? Somebody else won’t fix this, us as grown ups have to engage with it and do it. Meantime the push is on to shift ‘hospitalisations are all that matter’ to ‘ICU is all that matters’. How stupid have we become that being hospitalised for a disease is considered ’mild illness’? How did we ever even allow ‘just like the flu’ to be used as a comparison, to describe Covid as ‘mild’? Flu is one of the nastiest diseases in the world, a scourge of our health systems that we’re always trying to fight and get rid of.