This morning, an economist told the Today programme that “we are living with COVID”.
As of the 30th November, 2021, 144,969 people have died so far. The current 7-day average death toll from COVID is 119.
Next week we can expect around 833 more people to die of COVID.
In the UK alone.
This:
Parke O. Yingst (Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
is what roughly 50 people look like when you decide they are just statistics, when you decide they don’t matter, when you decide that “there was something wrong with them anyway, so they deserved to die”.
Do we really want to learn to live with this?