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The Daily Telegraph leader today says: "Let's admit what we got wrong in 2020, and shake things up in 2021".
Great idea. I have some suggestions. How about: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/01/01/admit-got-wrong-2020-shake-things-2021/
Great idea. I have some suggestions. How about: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2021/01/01/admit-got-wrong-2020-shake-things-2021/
...The Telegraph publishing this piece by Toby Young in June, which claimed: "there will be no “second spike” – not now, and not in the autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air. It’s time to get back to normal." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/25/day-day-coronavirus-edges-ever-closer-extinction-time-get-back/
... or this Telegraph leader at the end of October, saying, "The Government is wrong to put England into lockdown". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/10/31/government-wrong-put-england-lockdown/
Or this Telegraph piece from late September, accusing scientists of running, "Project Fear" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/09/21/public-needs-project-fear/
...Or the Telegraph relentlessly championing the "Swedish approach" even after it was clear it had led to ten times more deaths than neighbouring countries? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/09/lockdown-supporters-cannot-bear-thought-sweden-has-got-right/
...Or the Telegraph promoting the Great Barrington Declaration and attempts to get "herd immunity", even once it was obvious that would overwhelm the health service? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/10/07/sunetra-gupta-oped-herd-immunity-covid-coronavirus-normal/
...Or the Telegraph seeking to downplay the problem at every stage, like this November piece saying hospitals are "no busier than normal." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/03/hospital-intensive-care-no-busier-normal-leaked-documents-show/
