archived 20 Dec 2020 17:02:20 UTC
  • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
    1·
    4 years ago

    I honestly think this is just to deflect or excuse "cancelling" christmas last minute. Like guys we couldn't have seen this coming, sorry for lieing to you 4 days ago that covid would take 5 days off for festivities :/

      • carlin [he/him,comrade/them]
        ·
        4 years ago

        ‘We don’t want to cancel Christmas… I think that would be inhuman,” the prime minister said just last Wednesday in response to calls from scientific experts to reduce the relaxation of social restrictions allowing households to mix over Christmas.

        Four days later, he was forced to abruptly change course in light of alarming data indicating a steep increase in infection rates in London and parts of the south-east and east of England, thought to be linked to a new and more easily transmitted variant of Covid-19. The government was right to immediately impose tougher tier 4 restrictions on these parts of the country and elsewhere to restrict indoors household mixing to Christmas Day only.

        https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/20/observer-view-boris-johnson-christmas-u-turn