Tory MPs are breaking Covid rules so quickly, Johnson is taking to TV to announce more
Tory ministers like Matt Hancock are breaking even the current complicated Covid-19 restrictions so fast that Boris Johnson is to announce a new, more complicated system in the hope of stopping them.
That’s how it seems to This Writer, anyway.
But then, I’ve lost interest in the restrictions. Instead of being a way of keeping safe, Johnson has turned them into an attempt to distract us from his failure to address the proliferation of the pandemic with threats of huge fines if we don’t do as we’re told!
That’s why he hasn’t been able to provide any evidence to support his edict that pubs must close at 10pm. There isn’t any. It’s just a way to divert attention.
If Matt Hancock knew that, it would certainly explain why he was (allegedly) in a Parliamentary bar until long after the curfew was imposed one night last week.
Alternatively, I think it’s possible that Johnson is trying to address the shortage of new TV material with an idea for a new game show format.
I’ll explain below but first, let’s consider what he’s expected to announce in his own TV appearance later today (Monday, October 12):
England’s three-tier system… will be called Local Covid Alert Levels with England placed into “medium”, “high” and “very high” alert levels.
There is no detail yet on which area of England will be placed in which tier.
Millions of people could be banned from travelling outside their areas or mixing indoors with other households.
According to The Guardian,
Areas with relatively low infection levels will be placed in what is being described as tier 1. Only national restrictions such as the rule of six, the 10pm curfew on restaurants and pubs and existing rules on masks and social distancing will apply.
The next tier is likely to include bans on home visits and indoor socialising with other households in bars or restaurants.
In areas under the toughest tier 3 restrictions – including Merseyside, Manchester and Newcastle – bars and pubs are expected to be forced to close.
None of the above will make a scrap of difference to infection and death rates, of course, because they do not propose lockdowns in education or in the workplace – the main drivers of the current wave of the disease.
But what about that new TV format I mentioned?
It’s simple: after Johnson announces the new “Local Covid Alert Levels”, I expect an enterprising producer to devise a new game show in which members of the public are contacted at random and asked to provide accurate details of the Covid-related restrictions currently in place where they live.
If they get it right, they get a prize; get it wrong and they get a stern talking-to!
Do you think it’ll catch on?
Source: Boris Johnson to give live TV address to unveil new coronavirus lockdown system – Mirror Online
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You should start a live list of MP’s, their aids and family who not followed guidance or broke the rules \ law and make sure its published regularily