In Britain today, we witness how a pandemic like Coronavirus-19 interacts with a dystopian state, where paranoia and misrule preside, argue Joseph Healy and Rowan Fortune.
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Covid-19 Pandemic is not over, It is still destroying lives – Covid Action UK
"The Tories claim vaccination is the only protection we need, despite Omicron subvariants continuously breaching vaccine boundaries through mutation, and repeatedly reinfecting the population."
The Johnson government may be on its way out, but Covid isn’t.
"With his cut-price Trumpian populist approach to Covid, Johnson is leaving behind a legacy of social murder, waste, corruption and callousness. He is going as the death toll hits 200,000 deaths."
Covid is not over: key demands to fight for now – Zero Covid UK
"Vaccines on their own are not enough. We must continue to have a Vaccines Plus approach – vaccination plus mitigation and protection."
Lifting the remaining public health measures now will only prolong the pandemic and cause further illness and death – Zero-Covid UK
There are no scientific or public health grounds for the decision to remove public health protections, which appears to be based on a desire to distract attention from Boris Johnson’s lies and law-breaking.
Government’s reckless self-isolation proposals will result in more suffering
"Our hospitals are overwhelmed, our doctors are exhausted, and over a thousand people are dying of Covid every week... Far from relaxing the regulations, the Government should be doing more to manage the pandemic and protect people." By the Zero-Covid UK Team. It has been reported that the United Kingdom is drawing up plans under…
Continue reading ➞ Government’s reckless self-isolation proposals will result in more suffering
Save lives now, then we can all live well – Joan Twelves, Zero-Covid UK
"Johnson and Javid’s rejection of infection control measures in order to assuage their right wing backbenchers, is reckless to the extreme" By Joan Twelves, Zero-Covid UK. Much in Labour’s 10-point plan for living with covid is welcome, but it ignores the immediate crisis – we have to stop people dying from the virus before we…
Continue reading ➞ Save lives now, then we can all live well – Joan Twelves, Zero-Covid UK
The alternative to forever Covid is Zero Covid – Diane Abbott exclusive
“175,000 British citizens have died. These were overwhelmingly avoidable deaths... Had this government pursued the same policies as Australia, we would now have a Covid-19 death toll the British death toll would now be under 7,000. Following the policy of Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand would have led to fewer than 700 deaths.” By Diane…
Continue reading ➞ The alternative to forever Covid is Zero Covid – Diane Abbott exclusive