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It was my 20th anniversary of being with ms_mashton this weekend. We celebrated by staying in the Shard Shangri-La hotel (#golfclubmofos). On Sunday we walked along the river from Tower Bridge to Tate Britain, which was lovely. I really enjoyed just being in London and amongst modest groups of people, checking out all the fascinating things that exist on that stretch of waterfront. (North bank from Tower to Blackfriars then South bank to Lambeth).
I had forgotten about the COVID memorial wall outside St Thomas', opposite the Houses of Parliament.
It hit me like a punch to the stomach. It is absolutely, inutterably horrific. The scale of tragedy, of loss, of useless, needless, avoidable suffering and death. I was close to tears and also so, so angry.
I would dearly love for anyone who still supports Boris and his coterie of psycopathic clowns to take the walk that we did. And to just ponder it. Ponder why our leaders are incapable of change, of growing, learning, developing and empathising. To ponder what effect that has had on milllions of lives, of futures and of memories lost.
I would live in lockdown for another five years to save the lives of those that died due to shambolic, cowardly and self-interested decision avoidance. I expect most people would.