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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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.