The cost-of-living crisis is actively driving a crisis in public health.
2.6 million UK households can’t afford their essentials, an increase of 1.6m since 2022.
When living standards collapse, health pays the price.
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The cost of living crisis is a health crisis
A 19-year gap in healthy life expectancy currently divides the poorest and richest communities in the UK. This gap is not an accident. It…
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[Opens with a wide view of a city skyline, empty blue sky]
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[same image but now a huge, light grey rectangular object has appeared in the sky, at such an angle that we can't quite see what it is]
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[cut to the people going about their business on the ground. Slowly they start to realise something has appeared in the sky.]
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PERSON 1 [squinting up at the sky]:
Is that...
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[we now see the object from their point of view. It is a huge floating voice note, as you would get in WhatsApp, and it is from GOD. In the bit showing how long the voice note is, it says: 4m years.]
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PERSON 2 [Close up of their face looking horrified]:
It's a four-million year long voice note.. from God.
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PERSON 1 [closing their eyes in despair]:
We've got to listen to it, haven't we.
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[cut to some time later, a huge crane has been erected next to the voice note, a person at the end of it, reaches out and presses the play button]
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GOD [voice coming from the voice note]:
Hiyaaa
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GOD:
Sorry babes I was gonna do another Testament but I'm sending a voice note instead
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[Show the people below, shutting eyes, looking pained as they resign themselves to having to listen to the whole thing otherwise they will look rude]
GOD:
Thought I'd just, y'know... set you all right again... woah look at that pigeon... haha I'm on Heaven High Street right and I just saw a big pigeon... anyway where was I...
[In between panels, to indicate time passing]:
(...)
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[the scene is now the same as panel one, except the city skyline is now degraded, long since dead, an apocalyptic scene of lifeless ruin, silent beneath a blood-red sun]
GOD:
...Aaanyway sorry for the long note babes love you all byyye
*Bip *
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