© UnknownKarol Sikora
This cancer crisis is the predictable consequence of the NHS focusing exclusively on Covid-19
During the pandemic, I
wrote for this newspaper an article entitled "Why can't just one of these endless press conferences be dedicated to non-Covid related illnesses?" Perhaps naively, I thought it might be a suggestion which the Government would take up. Virtually cost-free, an uncontroversial subject and very little downside:
why wouldn't they do it, I thought? The idea received a warm response on Twitter. Others clearly shared the same view. I'm certain it was seen by the army of bureaucrats working on pandemic communications,
yet nothing came of it.Instead, those valuable hours were spent justifying ludicrous policies, dishing out patronising lectures and terrifying the country into submission with apocalyptic scenarios. I vividly remember a Brigadier, dressed in military fatigues, explaining with the help of a stick how he was building emergency Covid hospitals. All very impressive
until he was asked who would staff them. It was clear that the Government wanted to be seen to be doing "something", rather than actually aiming to consistently and instructively inform.
It was pure theatre.
Comment: From Ann Coulter: