Go out, catch Covid, ignore the science. Or trust in Chris Whitty | John Crace
People are wising up to Boris Johnson and choosing to listen to unelected experts over those paid to make bad decisions
You can tell who the country trusts. People no longer look at Boris Johnson on TV and ask themselves why is this liar lying to me. They already know why. Boris lies because he knows no other way of interacting. Deceit is his default setting. It's not just the past that is a foreign country; it's also the present. Truth and Boris have never been on speaking terms. So when Chris Whitty and the prime minister hold a press conference together, there's only one person to whom the country is listening.
In the earlier days of the pandemic, the chief medical officer appeared rather starstruck by the Johnson swagger and the Downing Street setting and would automatically tend to defer to anything Johnson said. Even the stuff he knew was bullshit. But over the last nine months, the chief medical officer has wised up and is no longer fooled by the overbearing narcissist. Instead he speaks his mind.
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