Interesting conversations with two different ministers tonight. Both support PM’s caution in unlocking this far, but have serious concerns about how the July 19 delay now plays out. They (individually) make the point that cases + hospitalisations and, to a lesser extent, deaths…
…will rise further now sharply, and still be rising in 4 weeks time, but hopefully with a slower rate of incline once more second doses kick in. But they fear the PM will come under huge pressure from the CMO/CSA, Labour and opinion polls, not to unlock when numbers are still…
…pointing upwards, and hospitalisations are in the high 100s and deaths in high two or three figures daily. They wonder, if Johnson doesn’t unlock then, “when can we ever?” The answer, they say, is he will have to bite the bullet once and for all and declare a number of daily…
…covid deaths that the UK is prepared to live with as the price of liberty for everyone else. That is “not very Johnsonian”, as one points out, “but he’s going to have to do it”. The minister adds: “If he doesn’t, we’ll end up shutting down the country for winter flu too”.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
