Covid was removed from the High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) list on the 19th March in the UK. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 are still on the list. We didn't lock down for those deseases so why did we lockdown for Covid-19?

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[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Because the government is full of wets.

Boris is too soft to even fire people, he has to employ someone to do it for him.

Someone like that can't possibly deal with thousands of deaths being on their hands but if you are running a country these are the horrible, hard decisions you have to take. There never any way to move forward hurting no one.

[–]tomatosplat 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There are not thousands of deaths in the UK. There are only a few thousand in the US.

All the tens of thousands you hear about are people who were suspected to have covid19, or died of complications from other medical conditions, and were attributed to covid19. They did not actually die from the disease. They died because they were dying.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

That's not my point. Boris has to be able to take the risk that you are right and these deaths aren't his fault but he can't do that, he doesn't have the metal.

Anyway apparently Boris and Dominic Cummings are having a blazing row in number 10 as we speak with Cummings likely to leave. If he does Tory HQ will try to get Lynton Crosby's team back in which will lead to some very different tactics.

[–]tomatosplat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've never been a fan of Boris, although I am obviously not as well informed about politics in the UK as you are. He always seemed week when dealing with the EU, especially the fishing thing, until recently. I think it's too late for him though. Yall r guna need somebody else to defend you from the globalists.

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Boris is too soft to even fire people, he has to employ someone to do it for him.

I wouldn't want to fire people either in his position, why expose yourself to negative baggage like that when you have so much other responsibility to shoulder. I wouldn't expect him to have to worry about cooking his own meals or cleaning his own toliet either.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not hard to fire people. Bring the whole cabinet over to my house right now and I'll fire the lot of them, no problem. People who can't do basic leadership stuff like that have no business running a country. They can't face the consequences of their actions, but someone else is going to have to face those consequences. Just like with lockdown, the government have to face up to the covid-19 figures so go running scared of those but they don't have to face the hidden cost of suicides, cancer deaths, etc so those are all fine.