Britain risks cementing in power a corrupt and incompetent government in Undeserved Gratitude for the vaccine. Boris Johnson really did foll

Patrick Cockburn. Photograph Martin Godwin for the Guardian 24 January 2015

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris-johnson-bodies-pile-high-covid-deaths-lockdown-b1840236.html Britain risks cementing in power a corrupt and incompetent government in undeserved gratitude for the vaccine

Boris Johnson really did follow through on his promise to let the ‘bodies pile high in their thousands’ – though the real number was in the tens of thousands

“No more f**king lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands,” Boris Johnson is reported as saying last October as the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic got underway.

Many will view his callous words, which he vehemently denies uttering, as an ill-chosen figure of speech, but they may fail to realise the grim truth that what he said was a largely accurate forecast of the consequence of his misjudgements. His only inaccuracy was in saying that the bodies would pile up in their thousands, while the correct number turned out to be in the tens of thousands.

What happened was not only predictable, but had already been predicted.” [Patrick Cockburn] 30 April 2021

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Boris Johnson really did follow through on his promise to let the ‘bodies pile high in their thousands’ – though the real number was in the tens of thousands…“No more f**king lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands,” Boris Johnson is reported as saying last October as the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic got underway. [Patrick Cockburn] 30 April 2021