A New Coronavirus Narrative: Pushed Into The Past Tense

How the UK government and press are using war-time messaging and the past tense to get Britain back to work

It’s eight weeks into the UK lockdown and deaths in the UK are officially approaching 35,000 (not counting those who died at home or without being tested, leading some to place the death toll closer to fifty thousand). The number of deaths are usually over four hundred a day and it has been around that number for weeks, showing the UK is still battling with…