It's just been announced that we have passed 100,000 deaths.

paddyanne, I am more and more convinced that it is because they don't care. Particularly about elderly deaths.

yet they are closing a vaccination centre to let the racing go ahead for 7 days over the next few weeks??? Doesn't sound as if Bojo and co have learned anything to me

One of the deaths was my FiL.
I am angry and despairing about how it has been handled. Too little, too late. Why are people even considering inessential journeys?. Here in Scotland we see people breaking the rules all the time and no-one is stopping them
My DS lives in NZ where they have had a total of 25 deaths.
It was shocking at the start how that Liverpool football match went ahead where 20,000 packed into the stadium, the Cheltenham races were not stopped and Boris was being Trump-like about what a tiny threat it was. Beggars belief.

We were slow to lock down at the beginning and hadn't implemented our pandemic planning.

I believe we are in the top 4 countries for per capita deaths.
Awful.

Where's our advanced medical treatment, since scientists knew that another pandemic would strike ? Why weren't we
more prepared ?

It's made me feel very uneasy this day and age. Horrendous.

30,000 lost their lives within 18 months when the Hong Kong 'flu struck in 1968/70.
In 1957 in the space of a month, 3,550 people died during the Asian 'flu, with 1-4 million worldwide.

Younger people too ! What's going on, this is 2021 ?

I've just seen there is a PM briefing at 1700. I cried when I saw the news earlier, scene from hospital bed, a beautiful woman with glasses, saying wash your hands etc - she died the next day. It is horrifying.

Do you remember when it was said that they hoped there would be no more than 20,000 at the beginning of lockdown?

I was shocked by that many at the time.

It’s horrifying! The only good news is that new cases have dropped to just over 20,000.