Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
Of course there is a red line where liberty is more important than individual lives, and to think otherwise seems both dangerous and bonkers.
Boris has clearly not been in charge at all as he didn't wish to lockdown. This is the bigger issue for me over people getting their knickers in a twist over insensitive use of language (made in what should have been privacy).
But of course it will get played out as "nasty Tory boy puts economy over lives..." Apparantly, he was also concerned with the impact on non Covid health of lockdowns.
I get the impression he is a complete push over to any strong characters in front of him; not an ideal trait in a PM.
I am glad that he was at first at least considering no lockdown, because that should surely be the default?
My thinking would have been to weigh up the lives to be lost through missed appointments etc, and to consider which people could be protected the best, and decide from there.
It would be really worrying if he blindly accepted locking people up without question.