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Poots tries to sectarianise pandemic: Class, not creed, the key dividing line on Covid

Edwin Poots’s attempt to paint the resurgence of Covid as the responsibility of the Catholic community is a particularly vile example of Stormont politicians trying to inject their sectarian poison in the midst of a crisis.  The comments weren’t just a political attack on Sinn Féin leaders' double standards on the Bobby Storey funeral - his comments went much further, suggesting ordinary Catholics have broadly flouted the rules while Protestants have abided by them.