Boris Johnson's rise to power taught him all the wrong skills for a Covid crisis Rafael Behr
about 5 years in The guardian
The prime minister doesn’t seem capable of making difficult choices. Instead he is masking his ineptitude with bluster
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Shutting pubs as the price of opening schools is a decision no prime minister wants to make, and Boris Johnson is a prime minister uniquely ill-equipped to make those kinds of choices. In the next phase of the pandemic he will find them hard to avoid.
The proven method for containing the coronavirus so far has been repressing citizens’ freedom to go about their business. But the government is afraid to do that for long because lockdowns put people out of work. A thriving consumer economy and a functioning education system both shuffle bodies around in ways that facilitate contagion. The combination is risky and essential. Continue reading...
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