Where is the evidence that early pub closures will lower infection rates? | Prospect Magazine prospectmagazine.co.uk/science-and-te…
"The 10pm curfew looks, then, worryingly like a cosmetic attempt to be seen to be “taking action” while in fact making a political calculation.
"Johnson’s unwillingness to court public disapproval by appearing to be a killjoy—the exact opposite of the ebullient, libertarian persona that got him into power—probably played a part in landing us in this predicament in the first place.
"Notoriously, his inordinate concern with “the inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub” made him drag his feet over the lockdown in March, a delay that is now known to have cost thousands of lives.
"It’s not hard to see how Johnson might think a “pint in hand” image would chime with the demographic that supported his election on a ticket of “getting Brexit done,” and the government reinforced that image emphatically in post-lockdown photo opportunities."
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