Now would be a good moment for the government's Chief Scientist (@uksciencechief) and Chief Medical Officer to resign, making it clear that they do not endorse the disastrous course it is taking, and will no longer be gagged and used as its human shields.
Otherwise, they're going to be turned into the fall guys for this catastrophe. If they don't walk now, Johnson won't hesitate to throw them under the bus (the one with £350m peeling from its sides) as soon as he feels enough pressure.
And the truth is that the longer they stay, the more complicit they become in the government's culpable negligence. This is more or less the last honourable moment they have to walk away. For their own sakes, and ours, they should take it.
