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.

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[ankaret]

I spent much of yesterday's walk trying to work out whether the average age of double vaccinated people (I got mine at the weekend and I'm 49) correlated with the age at which people are statistically more likely to vote Conservative, and then gave it up because I honestly don't believe that 'whether their supporters live or die' comes into this lot's calculations for a moment.

[white_hart]

I'm not sure they care about whether anyone lives or dies. Except presumably themselves.