
Michael Rosen and Rachel Clarke on the Covid-19 pandemic
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The Decanting Moment
i get a feeling that there was a moment when we really were expendable. The evidence shows that probably the loss of life in our care homes in the first wave, as a result of that, was around forty thousand lives lost. We had no p p to protect them. Nobody made any attempt to shield them from this pandemic. And i got clope o yellow, which is also a killer, though, i had the firal pneumonia,. And then i got the bacterial on temonia, which gavitates your lungs. So that's fun though. Though that's a result, you know, of several things all at the same time. It was a perfect storm, absolutely
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