the quick and the uncountable dead
by Nick Prolix, Regular Contributor

With a Home Secretary that seemingly can’t count, an NHS National Director who refuses to count & a press corp that continues to fail to hold the government to any kind of account, it is more and more necessary that we the people keep count for them. To try, despite obfuscated statistics and delayed testing to make the tally because to count the dead, is to say that these deaths, all deaths count. That these lives cut short counted for so much more than the grudging acknowledgment of a shrugging Health Secretary shamed by public indignation yet shamefully seeking still to put the blame back on those who continue to die and are left dying daily and avoidably for the lack of adequate safety provision. A lack that rests squarely with his own government’s austerity accounting, its’ arrogant digging in behind jingoistic magical thinking, behind its own blinkered callous refusal to discipline profit while shamelessly disciplining our shattered carers for even the briefest respite from those thirteen-hour struggles against an indiscriminate lethality with just bin-bags for protection. A blank refusal to ever admit culpability or just to concede, however inconceivably, that what really counts, the only thing that counts, is every single human life ….