It remains utterly incomprehensible. That during the peak of the pandemic, grandparents met their new grandchildren through glass windows; friends sat two metres apart in parks; loved ones were forbidden to say goodbye to their dying relatives in hospitals, or attend their funerals.
That intensive care wards were so overwhelmed with inpatients that ambulances queued for hours outside; that whole swathes of care home residents died over a matter of days, and that for the majority of April 2020, 1,000 people in the UK died from Covid-19 every single day.
