The horror, the horror (187/365)

[white_hart]

I'd thought that nothing this government does could shock me any more, but I'm still flabbergasted that Boris Johnson could stand up and in one breath say that daily case numbers might be at 50,000 by 19 July and in the next that they're still going to lift all restrictions.

Case numbers round here have been soaring in the last couple of weeks, to the point that the council are now running surge testing and pop-up vaccination centres for 18-29 year olds (and a van advertising this trundled past my office window at least twice today). Hospitalisations do seem to be lower than they were last time case numbers were this high, but lots of people have friends and neighbours who have tested positive despite being vaccinated. It's no surprise that literally every conversation and meeting I had today included some variant of "what the fuck does Boris Johnson think he's doing?".

And now we wait to find out what the university's response will be.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I'm a retired teacher myself and I know what you mean. Even without covid, parents would send clearly unwell children to school to spread colds and other nasties.

[perennialanna]

I leave you to guess whether the parent who reluctantly removed their child from the foyer, threatening to complain that we were sending home a perfectly healthy child for no reason, apologised to us later that day when the child was admitted to hospital...