The UK’s shocking death rate shows how vital it is to learn from our mistakes. This won’t be the last pandemic
It has been a year since the fearsome power of the pandemic made itself known, Boris Johnson finally bowed to reality, and Britain tardily entered the first of its official lockdowns. Since then, the virus has claimed more than 120,000 lives and afflicted many with the blight of long Covid.
In a country already riven by partisanship, the last year has deepened divides both personal and political. We all know that the action the government finally, begrudgingly, took was too late to prevent the disastrous first wave. The exact human cost of that delay is uncertain, but the toll has been immense.
