
Michael Rosen and Rachel Clarke on the Covid-19 pandemic
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We Are Following the Science, Not the Science
We all are desperate to live our lives as normal, like as the old normal. But it doesn't matter how much we yearn for our old lives, we are still here in reality, whether we like or not. And i suppose i feel as though we had come a long way from that first wave of the pandemic when the government mantre was, we will follow the science. We are following the sciences. For a long time now, the science has been divorced from the politics. The political decision making has very clearly been tivated by, and time tabled by, other factors beyond what is best for the health of the nation., he said.
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