Note from meeting between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in March 2020 “We are killing the patient to tackle the tumour” Next line: Why are we destroying the economy for people who are going to die anyway?

by jammybam

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  2. Perfect distillation of Tory ideology right there. They are social murderers.

  3. This seems like a particularly relevant time to remember that when politicians and business “leaders” talk about “the economy” they really mean “rich peoples yacht money”

  4. I think this attitude from Boris and Co towards the pandemic was obvious to anyone paying attention, but still, it’s shocking seeing it written out like that.

  5. Sensible outlook. Shame they were too cowardly to follow through with it.

  7. Uncaring narcissistic twat confirmed as uncaring narcissistic twat.

    Shock!

    I understand there were no easy decisions to be made, but at least feign some empathy when making potentially life and death decisions.

  8. Jesus fuck! What the fuck’s wrong with their handwriting!??

  10. So this feels like a manslaughter on a colossal scale at least

  11. While this is shocking I do wonder where everybody would draw the line. There is a point where it is not possible to lock down because you won’t have an economy left.

    It’s easy to criticise when we don’t have to make the call. It’s also easy to criticise when the voices we hear are those talking about the health impacts. Health is tangible, we know the consequences of it goes wrong. The assumption is always that the government will make it better on the economy, as we can see now, economic policy can be harmful to people also.

  12. The Tories need to learn to delete their communications

  13. So much hate here but they’re right.

    When the economy goes through enough abuse, the poor are the first to suffer the consequences for the next 20 years.

    And for what? So the elderly can continue to cause more inflation and economic destruction in the future, and so Londoners can feel good and pretend they’ve done something useful like they always do while the rest of the country suffers?

  14. Written (and spoken) like a couple of elite, efite, pricks. Why, oh why, does anyone vote for this shower of complete wankers. Lining their own pockets and not even trying to cover it.

    Fuq them – they have disdain for the normal man and woman. They are raping with impunity.

  15. Do you remember “*flatten the curve*” which, at the pandemic’s outbreak was the major emphasis? Was this about saving lives? Or, relieving pressure on the health service so that the inevitable influx of patients – the elderly; those with comorbidities – would not overwhelm staff and facilities? Answer: it was about the latter.

    At the onset of the pandemic there was no vaccine. There were no therapeutics. There was very limited knowledge on how to treat what was a novel virus. People were always going to die – because that’s what happens during pandemics when there are no effective treatments – and, to his credit, Johnson said so in one the early press conferences. I think the words he used were, “*People will die before their time*”. It was perhaps the last – and only – piece of honesty delivered from that lectern. Shortly thereafter the honesty receded and the focus shifted from flattening the curve to “*stamping out the virus*” which was always an impossibility (Covid still exists today) but no politician would admit this publicly.

    I don’t have a problem with the words shown here. It’s a legitimate question and one that all governments asked. My beef is with the lack of transparency, absence of preparedness, the childish communications, wasted money on the likes of Test & Trace, bad science, absurd restrictions, the refusal to look at the UK’s piss-poor public health as a contributing factor to the number of deaths, continued admittance of those with respiratory illnesses to facilities that were being used by other patients, and the continued obfuscation by those who played a part.

  16. In a normal country this would kill their careers, their party and they’d be took to court.

    Instead the UK will probably just give the tories power back in 2030 or 2035

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