Quote: sally cinnamon "Boris would have been writing columns in newspapers taking the same position Dita's Slot Meter does on here, acting as the champion of "common sense" and "British freedoms" against the lockdown'"
Do you mean rather than a position that will, in the long term, cause far more health and social disaster than the virus itself ever will?
I actually agree with you over our ineffective government. Combined with an equally ineffective opposition and a gormless and easily manipulated population, we have all the ingredients for the absolute mess we are currently in and far from getting out of.
Out of curiosity, you often speak of not wanting this virus to 'rip' through our population - Do you seriously believe this hasn't already happened?
We currently have daily cases of over 6,000, with just over 30 daily deaths. Back in April, when testing was non existent and we had upto a 1,000 deaths a day, how many positive daily cases do you think there was?.. with the present figures, you could easily say it was well over 100,000 a day?
Like I have always maintained, we are hiding from a virus that behaves like flu. Kills the vulnerable, is an inconvenience to the vast majority. Our reaction to it, while predictable, begs the question of why we never react like this to flu and also suggests we can't ever return to normality, simply because we have set a precedent that any virus that kills must be hidden from and not lived with.