Thread by @danielgoyal

Dear Prime Minister,

I will be brief.

Ideology has no place in a national crisis. You must do the first part of your job: protect the people. The second, promoting growth can only be done after you have been successful in the first - living being a pre-requisite for success.

I fear I am not getting through to you. Another way then. When the dust settles, and the true endemic level of SARS-CoV-2 is known, there will be a tally. There will be a count - with all the data, across all the domains that the many observers have collected.

The count will not be in your favour. In fact, when historians put pen to paper, the Johnson-era - on your current trajectory - will be remembered as a cautionary tale, a bookmark in history to teach those that come after you a simple fact: decisions are rarely binary.

Your example will help others learn the importance of robust infrastructure and solid foundations from which to grow a healthy, secure economy. That, moving quickly to protect the people (you may know them as the workers) during a crisis protects national interests.

As we move to your fourth attempt, with society simmering, security diminishing, and your people - the people you are supposed to protect - facing the terrifying prospect of falling ill on a depleted battle field, perhaps now is the time to reflect and take informed council.

Your approach so far has neither saved lives nor saved the economy. No, Covid is nothing like flu. Tripling the death rate from pneumonia is noticed. Failing to provide any additional basic healthcare capacity for the additional patients to receive treatment has been noticed.

A word of advice then. The double whammy is not the one you think it will be. It will be defeat from Covid and defeat from the many, many non-Covid health outcomes that continue to diminish on your watch. Maybe eventually the free market will take the reigns, but for now...

..this period has taught us: when global catastrophes are in play, it is the quality of the State that matters.

Sincerely,

Daniel Goyal

@BorisJohnson

Overwhelmed by the support. Thank-you all.

I nearly didn't post it 😷

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