We sacrificed and socially distanced and masked and cancelled and stayed away and didn't see friends and family and gave up non-essential shopping and forewent events and films and concerts and trips, and so much more.
Boris Johnson will bin all that effort instantly on 19 July.
Boris Johnson will bin all that effort instantly on 19 July.
See, it doesn't matter how well we behaved, how many hardships we endured, how many sacrifices we made, when the new and improved strategy is "let the virus fall where it will". Because if Boris Johnson's wild eyes-shut bet is wrong, millions will catch it and many will die.
And nobody - not even the Tories - is pretending the situation is under control.
Far from it, in fact. They fully admit that cases could climb to 50,000 a day, even 100,000 a day - but that's ok because, well, it has to be ok. No logic, just empty circularity.
Far from it, in fact. They fully admit that cases could climb to 50,000 a day, even 100,000 a day - but that's ok because, well, it has to be ok. No logic, just empty circularity.
July 19 is the literal embodiment of "I can't be bothered any more" for Boris Johnson. At that point, the pandemic becomes our problem not his. And if he has to intervene again, it will be because our common sense wasn't sensible enough i.e. it will all be our fault.
And even if the vaccine keeps deaths low - What's "acceptable"? No government minister will ever say - the spectre of long covid isn't going away.
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