Government - accused of manipulating covid death figures in order to make it look like they weren't the worst crisis handlers in Europe and beyond - comes up with this comedy denial: (my emphasis)

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“Every death is a tragedy, and our deepest sympathies to all families who have lost loved ones. We have always been transparent about the way we report Covid-19 deaths and it is wrong to suggest we would in any way attempt to play down the scale of this GLOBAL pandemic."

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Guys, it's not the global pandemic we thought you were playing down. It's the national catastrophe. The UK one. The one you caused by trivialising the danger, adopting herd immunity, dumping cases onto care homes and failing for months to test or trace. That one.

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https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/19/over-1000-deaths-day-uk-ministers-accused-downplaying-covid-19-peak
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