Scum Admits Today’s Death Toll Worse than Spain and Italy’s Worse Day

The Scum has put up this video of Matt Hancock reporting today’s death toll from Coronavirus. He also talks about how Boris Johnson is improving, and thanks his well-wishers. It also shows him stating that his aim is to get the NHS staff the PPE equipment they need, and appealing to people to stay home this Easter. I don’t want to show it on this channel, but if you want to see it, it’s at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5O81ijNfUw

Hancock nowhere mentions it in the video, but the Scum’s blurb for it makes it clear that today’s death toll is greater than that experienced by Spain and Italy on the days they experienced the worst fatalities from the disease. It runs

Britain’s coronavirus death toll has jumped by 980 in the last 24 hours – making it the biggest rise yet and more deadly than Spain’s worst day of their outbreak. The grim figures also reveal the total number of cases has risen to 70,272 – up from 65,077 infections the day prior. During Spain’s worst day of their coronavirus outbreak, 961 people died. The jump in deaths is also higher than virus-ravaged Italy’s worst day when 919 people died. The Health Secretary also announced that care homes and GP surgeries will be able to order masks from an Amazon-style NHS store that will deliver protective kit much faster.

This is an indictment of Johnson’s and the Tories’ complacency. Johnson, Cummings and the rest dragged their feet until the very last minute, spouting nonsense about herd immunity and trying to get away with doing the bare minimum until this became absolutely impossible. They were hoping they could let the disease take its course, killing the old, weak, poor and disabled, so that they wouldn’t have to worry about the economy, and could continue making the rich – including themselves – get richer. And according to Mike, they may still be doing this. He put up a post today reporting an article in Byline Times that states that the Tory plan may be too flatten the curve of deaths, but not stop it, so that the disease may eventually kill over a quarter of a million people.

If that’s true, Johnson and his cronies deserve to be tried and condemned as mass murderers.

Meanwhile, I find it remarkable that an arch-Tory paper like the Scum has reported this death toll and made comparison with the two European countries worst hit. And I wonder how long it will stay up. Because I think I saw a similar article yesterday on YouTube, at the moment it disappeared and replaced by something less damning.

See also: https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2020/04/10/coronavirus-have-the-tories-told-a-big-lie-do-they-expect-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/

Tags: Boris Johnson, Byline Times, Coronavirus, Deaths, Disease, Dominic Cummings, Matt Hancock, NHS, the Disabled, The Elderly, the Poor, the Rich, The Sun, Vox Political