It turns out that the UK's most senior Whitehall official, Sir Mark Sedwill - who unusually combines three roles, cabinet secretary, head of the civil service and national security adviser - had Covid19, at more-or-less the same time as @BorisJohnson, Dominic Cummings and...
@MattHancock. In other words the four most important members of the government in respect of managing this health and economic crisis have all been infected with the ghastly coronavirus. There is something faintly ridiculous about this. At least they know...
from first hand experience how infectious it is. Though it shows that the office configuration in Downing St is completely unfit for purpose in a coronavirus world. To be facetious, it turns out they were the unwitting guinea pigs for the herd immunity...
policy they briefly contemplated and then abandoned as too risky.
