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There is nothing more heartbreaking in our society than the death of an infant by abuse. And yet the incidence of this, both deliberate and accidental, is on the increase in England, a direct result of the terrible impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent double lockdowns on vulnerable families.
While Chancellor Rishi Sunak paints a picture with the government's furlough scheme of households where reliably industrious parents are managing to work from home, attend Zoom conferences, cook, clean, referee disputes between bickering and sometimes bored offspring and generally enjoy a happy life, the reality for some could not be more different. Lockdown becomes a living hell for those families already in difficulty.
Comment: The toll of the lockdowns are manifold, and governments throughout the West continue to reimpose them despite their own numbers showing the destruction they are causing; and we can expect the situation to get even worse because the full impact of the lockdowns has yet to even be felt: UK gov figures show 75,000 could die because of lockdown, excess deaths are already soaring