Latest from Plague Island: the "moral emptiness and epidemiological stupidity" of Johnson and Javid

Immediately after 18 months of serial negligence, the latest selection by Boris Johnson and Savid Javid to allow the Covid-19 virus at last rip through a nonetheless mainly unvaccinated inhabitants confirms the real extent of this government’s depravity.

The darkish implications of their coverage have been laid out in a damning statement at The Lancet by a team of eminent experts.

As Professor Stephen Reicher concludes: “This is pure harmful ideology.”

One can but question at the sheer scale of the loss of life and struggling this savage elite has already unleashed on a susceptible and unsuspecting populace. 

This final decision now seals their abandonment.

Nor can we but lament the moral complicity of foremost governing administration scientific advisers in failing to distance them selves from Johnson’s folly.

We may perhaps also replicate woefully on the blanket lies and propaganda employed to sell these new disastrous directives to a demoralised and fatigued place.

The full ‘coming together’ and ‘celebratory unlocking’ immediately after the previous 18 months has been played as a cynical distraction from authorities culpability.

Mass hysteria around England’s element in the Euro football occasion has been applied by Johnson for the similar populist needs, part of the spurious hubris in lieu of ‘Freedom Day’.

There will be no ‘freedom day’, alas, for the a lot of young people today who will now fall unwell to extensive Covid, or those even now dying from this rapidly-spreading Delta variant and the mutations it will crank out. 

There will be no ‘coming home’ for numerous additional victims of Tory negligence.