Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Yes, I agree - I look at the hesitation with implementing the current lockdown and with things like the closing of pubs and think how many lives is that going to cost? I appreciate the scale of the task a new Government has had foisted upon them, but it strikes me that in the early days of this crisis, it was treated in the kind of way a financial crisis would be in that it was almost like an experiment in which some sort of pet theory could be proved or otherwise - we went against the prevailing view among many of our neighbours and it looks like we could pay for that.
I think that Raising his political ideologies is perfectly acceptable in this instance and i'd go as far as to say that johnson would've equated this Virus in the same way he would a financial crisis, that being to protect the interests of the few. Closing down business and massively disrupting commerce is at odds with his political beliefs, i don't think that he has much interest in the vulnerable, poor and sick who have no other option than to use stretched and cut to the bone service, afterall, he doesn't really have those peoples support and to him they're probably a drain on resources. He may have thought that it's quite likely that those at the bottom of the social ladder will suffer the most, what's new! I don't trust him to get anything right and in my opinion, everything implemented to eradicate this virus is at odds with his personal ideology.