Boris Johnson has once again failed to act decisively in dealing with covid-19. He has learned nothing from his March disaster.
On March 12 he announced a half-hearted plan to deal with the virus and then had to toughen restrictions on March 16, 18 and 20 before finally ordering a UK-wide partial lock down on March 23 when people had to stay at home except for certain "very limited purposes”.
Yesterday he was in March 12 mode - early closing for pubs and bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not COVID-secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors
Even with this limited action he confessed he was “spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom…”
It’s all about being able to “keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward…”
Because “If we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.”
So how many days will it be, as the number of victims rises, before Johnson starts making the same series of announcements that he was forced to make in March?
As he said yesterday: “We must reserve the right to go further
On March 12 he announced a half-hearted plan to deal with the virus and then had to toughen restrictions on March 16, 18 and 20 before finally ordering a UK-wide partial lock down on March 23 when people had to stay at home except for certain "very limited purposes”.
Yesterday he was in March 12 mode - early closing for pubs and bars; table service only; closing businesses that are not COVID-secure; expanding the use of face coverings, and asking office workers to work from home if they can while enforcing the rule of six indoors and outdoors
Even with this limited action he confessed he was “spiritually reluctant to make any of these impositions, or infringe anyone's freedom…”
It’s all about being able to “keep people in work, we can keep our shops and our schools open, and we can keep our country moving forward…”
Because “If we were forced into a new national lockdown, that would threaten not just jobs and livelihoods but the loving human contact on which we all depend.”
So how many days will it be, as the number of victims rises, before Johnson starts making the same series of announcements that he was forced to make in March?
As he said yesterday: “We must reserve the right to go further
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