Nearly 1000 people are dying every day at the moment from the Coronavirus, but the BBC is mainly focussed on letting us know that Boris Johnson, who also had the disease, is ‘in good spirits’.
They’re usually so keen to report on negative stories, in other countries at least. I guess it is different when it is our own government that is culpable.
I realise it’s important to be positive right now, but it’s also massively important that we are made aware of why the U.K. in particular is suffering so badly from this virus.
Why was this 2016 report, that revealed how unprepared we are for a pandemic, ignored?
Why is it that our governments have spent £billions on war and nuclear weapons rather than on things that benefit people+planet? Why have they given tax cuts to corporations? Why have they allowed billionaires to keep their profits in tax havens? Why have we had a decade of cuts to public services? Why has the NHS been partly privatised, dismantled, and underfunded, leaving it in a poor state to cope with a crisis?
Neoliberalism!
Coronavirus is neoliberalism’s Chernobyl.
Time to wake up.
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