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The Pandemic Diaries. Hitting The Wall. FRIDAY 1st JANUARY 2021. New Year’s Day. 15,606. World-wide deaths: 1,834,519. ams, and yet.....something has changed. Is it that age old feeling of a new y. ar bringing. new hope and possibilities? It must be. For there is a definite subtle shift in tone.
Pandemic Diaries: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle Against Covid is a 2022 book by Matt Hancock, a politician, and Isabel Oakeshott, a political journalist, about Hancock's tenure as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is published by Biteback.
- The Erin Brockovich of Covid
- The History of The Redemptive Memoir
- Less Redemption, More Slapstick
Reading how “aghast” Hancock was in response to a Prime Minister’s Questions session in early February, in which no one asked a single question about the virus, the impression given is that he was the Erin Brockovich of COVID. Oddly enough, however, none of this quite tallies with Hancock’s account, in these same pages, of his actual activities dur...
Historian George Egerton notesthat (while forerunners exist) the concept of the professional politician publishing a text that aims “to explain and interpret” the decisions they made in office didn’t find full expression until the 1890s, with first Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck’s landmark three volume memoir. Since then, acceler...
The image that will stay with most readers of Hancock’s diaries is unlikely to be that of a nation bravely facing a crisis. The picture that has been indelibly imprinted upon my mind, for instance, is instead of Hancock struggling “to keep a straight face” at the sight of Thérèse Coffey “chomping on a sandwich” during “an extremely important” Zoom ...
Dec 6, 2022 · Recounting the most important decisions in the race to develop a vaccine in record time and to build a nationwide testing capacity from the ground up, Pandemic Diaries provides the definitive account of Britain’s battle to turn the tide against Covid-19.
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The Pandemic Diaries. 5. Hope. 13th May 2021 – 7th September 2021. THURSDAY 13th May 2021. deaths: 24,804 World-wide deaths: 3,353,074. first (Pfizer) vaccination. Despite being warned of possible side effects from the jab, I can honestly report that neither of us have had any real effects, aside from a slightly sore arm, and even t.
Panic. TUESDAY 21st JANUARY. Today’s News: 6 people have died from it. Their first case. World-wide deaths: 6. ntering a parallel universe. A sort of bubble wher. normal rules don’t apply. They’re stressful as you’re surrounded by people rushing in every direction, you have rules to.
Dec 6, 2022 · Recounting the most important decisions in the race to develop a vaccine in record time and to build a nationwide testing capacity from the ground up, Pandemic Diaries provides the definitive account of Britain’s battle to turn the tide against Covid-19.
