J’accuse
(I accuse)
(in tribute to Emile Zola, who called out the government of his day for disregard of human rights)
J’accuse
a government of not protecting us
J'accuse
a government of experimenting with its population
J'accuse
a government of putting profit before people
J’accuse
a government of toying with the idea of ‘herd immunity’ without vaccination
a government of knowing that herd immunity without vaccination inevitably necessitates the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people
a government of knowing how little they knew about how Covid-19 works and that how it might spread, mutate, reinfect were unknowns and therefore any idea of ‘letting it rip’ was lethal and fatal to thousands of people
a government of refusing to listen to World Health Organisation guidelines issued from February 2020
a government of dishing out contracts to friends and supporters to provide services and equipment
a government that turned away from the local public health bodies that were best placed to run services
a government that has not provided and is still not able to provide a proper test-trace-isolate system which could and would protect more of its citizens
a government that decanted thousands of old people out of hospitals into care homes without them being tested, resultng in tens and thousands of deaths
a government of failing in early March to issue strict guidelines about social distancing, mask-wearing and hand-washing
a government of underfunding the NHS for ten years prior to the pandemic so that it was not sufficiently equipped to cope with the emergency
J’accuse
a small group of scientists of peddling the idea of ‘herd immunity’ without vaccination as a viable and ethical policy even though they knew that it necessitated the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people
J’accuse
journalists and commentators in major papers and news outlets peddling the idea that people over 70 were or are superfluous, unworthy of saving, who, if dead, would help the economy by not existing
J’accuse
journalists and commentators for helping to provide a seed-bed for what is in effect a form of creeping fascism, that a whole section of the population can be dispensed with for what is deemed to be a greater good.
(with thanks to Kevin Ovenden for suggesting that I write this)
