Matt Hancock, the British Secretary of State for Health, was discussing how to "frighten the pants off everyone" with a new strain of coronavirus when a 15-year-old boy named Mark was listening to the drumbeat towards another national Lockdown grow louder in deepening despair. Mark's mother Anna Marie described how overzealous council officials had shut the playground, leaving her struggling to cope with Mark's little brother, a hyperactive five-year-old. Anna Marie and her family tried to keep the TV off, but they were being bombarded with prophecies of doom. Mark knew they were going into another lockdown, and the fear was the thing that affected him most. He was disconnected; distant. Mr Hancock and his advisers were caught up in their own sense of heroism, and had no idea about the lives of people like Anna Marie and her children. Mark's life was cut short when he decided to go to the shops on Christmas Eve and never returned.

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