Mark English

Dear 🇬🇧, 225,000 people have died in this country from COVID-19 and millions continue to suffer from its long term effects. We lost family, friends, patients, co-workers, and it caused disruption to our lives and livelihoods on a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. If we don't learn the lessons from this pandemic, from the reasons why we were so terribly ill-prepared in the first place, to failures of politicians to recognise the nature of the threat, to mitigation efforts to contain the disease, to best practices for management of the disease, to government communications with the public — to hundreds of other lessons yet to be learned — then we will be doomed to repeat these mistakes in the very near term. In an interconnected world of 8 billion people, in a country that is a transportation hub to the world, it's laughable to think that COVID-19 will be the last pandemic we'll see for 100 years. The next one is likely around the corner and we must be better prepared. So I can't stress this enough: We must demand nothing but full and complete transparency with this #CovidInquiry. If Boris Johnson ran government communications via WhatsApp then the Covid Inquiry must receive all *unredacted* communications and the Cabinet Office must comply and release all of this information immediately. If they do not urgently release this information and comply with the order, then we must march in the streets to support the families of @CovidJusticeUK. 225,000 people are dead. We cannot allow the most corrupt government in our lifetimes to deny justice to them, to us, and to future generations. Release all information now. #SOSNHS