Britain is still reeling from the pandemic's aftershocks...
so why haven't politicians talked about Covid during the election? By John Macleod For The Scottish Daily Mail Published: 17:19 EDT, 28 June 2024 | Updated: 18:05 EDT, 28 June 2024 e-mail View comments It is the elephant in the room. The public health emergency that cratered our economy, flung us under extreme, illiberal laws without Parliamentary debate and almost killed the Prime Minister. It devastated our children’s education, saw thousands of our elderly die isolated, terrified and alone and, as of mid-April, has slain 232,112 people in Britain.
A further 22,954,691, though, caught Covid-19 and survived – which raises huge questions wholly unvoiced in this General Election . Not once has it been publicly discussed by those soliciting our votes. It has been raised at no televised debate.
Huge questions – what went wrong, and what has been learned for the next pandemic? – hang unheard. Because, perhaps – and especially from March 2020 to the summer of 2021 – it was a time so wretched that no one wants to remember it. The overreaction to the Covid pandemic has contributed to the hollowing out of our city centres And, come to think of it, a like nightmare just over a century ago was also swiftly expunged from public memory.
Not that we can ignore the NHS backlog, the soaring number of benefits claimants, our biggest post-war tax burden, and the hollowing out of our city centres. All a direct consequence .
