"If there’s one lesson we should all have taken from footballer Marcus Rashford’s successful campaign for free school meals, it is that you need to embarrass this government into doing the right thing." https://t.co/CUx8CFBc1s
"We’re not just viable, we’re one of the most valuable, innovative and essential industries on the planet, but without sector specific support to cover our temporary crisis, we are being abandoned by a government content to throw in the towel." https://t.co/3VgbBbcKzN
I think it's probably not right to claim the NHS "coped with the first wave of covid".
Yes, we avoided a triage situation of choosing between covid patients for the last ICU bed.
But that was bought at the cost of stopping everything else. That's not coping, it's redistributing.