It's hard to believe this nightmare began over a year ago - weeks and months before the official UK Lockdown date of March 23rd, 2020.

The anniversary of this pandemic is a memorial to the inaction of a UK government who paid no heed to the WHO's earlier dire warnings on and before March 12th, 2020, despite the virus raging through Italy, France; and inevitably to these shores. At the time there were those of us who were shocked by this, and took cover in self imposed lockdowns as the government downplayed the dangers to ringfence the economy. It was only weeks later, on this date on March 23rd, 2020, that the government finally decided Herd Immunity was simply bad PR, and their hand was forced to do something.

Quite what, they weren't sure…

So let's take a moment to remember the 122,000 people who lost their lives through no fault of their own, caught in the cross fire between history and a year of government incompetence. Let's also remember the relatives, doctors and nurses, who have suffered needlessly.

We will remember you - and not this date in history - but the weeks leading up to it.