Johnson scraps remaining COVID restrictions in England

“’Ignorance is bliss’ is not a responsible approach to a deadly virus," Starmer said.

The below quote from Isaac Asimov sums up the state of democracy, especially in internet days when social media trolls paid and volunteer have had such powerful roles in influencing the intellectually vulnerable and other poorly educated sorts. No wonder authoritarian states and their useful idiots have been so active online trying to undermine democracy

 *"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."*

-The UK should make a misinformation website like Denmark.

The UK have been misinforming everyone for two years. A UK 'Covid death' is someone who died of absolutely anything and had a positive Covid test in the previous four weeks, not the smaller number of people who died of Covid.

Lead, and the coward countries will follow. They'll watch the UK from their holes and their hiding spots, but if the UK can live with COVID, the rest of the world will have no excuse not to, too.

Take away the government autocrats' fig leaves of excuses they use to justify xenophobic, unscientific, knee-jerk politically-motivated reactions to what is now in most vaccinated countries an ENDEMIC, not pandemic, situation. Then demand that they surrender back to the people all the power they stole for their "emergency" tyrannies, all in the name of the "people." And then investigate how those who lusted for said powers manipulated, withheld, heightened fear and exaggerated scientific evidence and data to achieve their designs.

Well done, Boris. I often criticize you for many many things, but this is what leadership looks like.

“Today’s announcement is not a plan for living with COVID, it is a plan for reducing spending on testing and cutting support for people who have or may have COVID," said Trish Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health services at the University of Oxford.

If measures taken are being defended by politicians while health care experts warn about them it should be clear that the priority behind the decision is not public health. The UK is making (again) a very risky bet by eliminating all and every measure that have been useful at preventing extra deaths. Hopefully they will win this bet, because if not the less fortunate people will be again those that will face the most serious consequences.

Johnson is playing the electorate once again.

"Never mind, everything's fine now - get out to the pub and forget about the fact that I was getting tanked up with my Eton bumchums all the time you proles were following "rules".

"Quick, look - over there! A Baddie! Might be a war. You like Churchill, don't you, well, I'm posh like he was, so forget the fact that I'm tonsils-deep in corruption."

Brush your sodding hair, you preposterous buffoon.