The BBC broadcast a documentary this week commemorating the five-year anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 epidemic. It is entitled “Love and Loss – The Pandemic: Five Years On”.
I watched it because I thought it might be of interest but it mainly consisted of individual sob stories. It didn’t attempt to trace the cause of the epidemic or the Government’s reaction to it. You can find the programme on BBC’s I-Player.
If you wish to trace the track of the epidemic and the prevention measures taken in the UK you might do better to read the diary I started in 2020 which was later published on Amazon under the title “A Journal of the Coronavirus Year”. See https://www.roliscon.com/journal-of-coronavirus-year for more details.
I started it because I thought I had little chance of surviving as I have a suppressed immune system but I never got the infection. That may be because I had numerous vaccinations for the disease and was careful to avoid crowds and public transport.
Some members of my family did seem to get infected but with relatively mild symptoms.
It is still unclear exactly where the disease originated from but it now seems likely that it escaped from a laboratory in China that were experimenting on viruses. The latest death toll from the disease is reported to be over 7 million worldwide.
The cost of the epidemic had a major impact on the UK Government’s finances and we will learn the latest bad news on that later today when the Chancellor gives her spring statement.
Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://x.com/RogerWLawson )
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