97. The Tories Mess Up COVID... Again - LIVE SHOW
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
As the Tories mess up the pandemic again with 'Freedom Day' due to be kicked back by a month, we're joined by epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani - who has been proven right time and time again - to discuss just how bad things really are.
We're also joined by James Mills - former advisor to Jeremy Corbyn - to talk about just how big the stakes are for the left in the Unite election.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello on this exceptionally sunny Sunday. Why are you watching me? Don't |
| 0:12.8 | disappear, actually. Go and enjoy the sun and the football. If you're watching live, of course, |
| 0:16.8 | most of you probably aren't. When we've done this cracking show, we're going to learn a lot today. |
| 0:21.9 | There's a lot going on, to say the least, as ever. Covid, I just probably noticed there's a |
| 0:27.6 | pandemic going on, which is defined our life for well over a year. And I think having gone through |
| 0:33.6 | three national lockdowns, huge restrictions on our lives, and obviously more severely, 150,000 |
| 0:41.8 | people who have died around one in every 443 people in this country during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
| 0:48.5 | Remember when we were told by the chief scientific, the chief scientific adviser that 20,000 deaths |
| 0:55.2 | would be a good total. And yet we have suffered several times more fatalities than that. Those |
| 1:01.8 | have been hospitalised, those subjected to long Covid, the overwhelming of our NHS, the huge |
| 1:10.2 | economic and social dislocation. People were looking for light at the end of the tunnel. |
| 1:14.8 | And that was called so-called freedom day, which was on the 21st of June when all restrictions |
| 1:21.6 | effectively were due to be dropped, and life, normal life, the before times were supposed to come |
| 1:28.2 | roaring back. It is not to be. That day will be delayed by at least a month. That's what the |
| 1:34.6 | government are imminently going to announce. Why on earth are we in this situation all over again? |
| 1:41.2 | And of course, anyone who's watched this or listened to this show will know that over and over |
| 1:47.2 | again, we've done our best with some of the best experts in the country to detail just how the |
| 1:52.9 | government messed this up by delaying lockdown, by opening up the economy too soon without a |
| 1:58.4 | functioning test and trace system, allowing variants to could be imported into the country, |
| 2:05.5 | allowing cases to rise so much that the risk of variance increased, which is of course what happened |
| 2:10.9 | with the Kent, now the Alpha variant, as it's called, disaster after disaster after disaster, |
| 2:16.8 | and here we are all over again, the Delta variant, which only was identified as first |
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