Comment received from Old Owl:

“The NHS is not being “overwhelmed”.  It is paying the price for 10 years of austerity and Tory policy – bed cuts, local authority cuts, reliance on unpaid volunteers and food banks for the poor.  Tories believe in “small (microscopic) state” and “free markets” with minimal social security so people are “encouraged” to work, even if they can’t.

Unfortunately Coronavirus needs a large, well-resourced state and a suspension of greedy free markets.  Oh look – that’s what Sunak is now trying desperately to create – socialism!

Now lets see: requisition of mega-mansions for nursing homes, cuts to salaries for useless CEOs and re-nationalisation of public utilities.

Come on, Tories – you know you have to!”