I am haunted in particular by the account of the mother of a doctor who died in March. What should be a nation in mourning for tens of thousands of lives is instead a nation being subjected to a callous triumphalism. But the loss was avoidable, which is precisely why we are not allowed to mourn publicly and together as a nation. As levels of trust plummeted after the Dominic Cummings saga, Johnson said he was “very proud” of the government’s response. Johnson, himself the epitome of irresponsibility when he boasted about shaking hands with coronavirus patients, refused to condemn the comments.

Source: The Guardian August 03, 2020 04:52 UTC