Predicting restrictions will be imposed again

BORIS Johnson’s handling of our Covid-19 epidemic has been at best careless and inept.

When the epidemic started, he negligently did nothing to stop or reduce foreign travel, particularly to and from China, India and Africa.

The net effect of his inaction was that Covid-19 was allowed to spread and mutate into a South African version and then an Indian version.

These inactions meant that in the early days, instead of effectively controlling the virus, we allowed it to settle and mutate.

As the number of positive tests increased and the number of deaths multiplied, England had one of the

worst records in comparable countries.

Many innocent people suffered. Many are still suffering, through no fault of their own.

The Boris government then introduced lockdown 2 and on February 18 said that it “must be absolutely right to take action based on data and not dates” regarding dealing with management of lockdowns.

So, this last week, when the data indicated the infection rate appears likely to overtake the highest recorded in this country within days, with home test results taking over two days, forcing some needless absences from work and school, and more than 500,000 people pinged in one week and told to isolate, this same NHS app is being deleted en

masse to avoid further disruption to work and family life.

Clearly, Boris and his team remain oblivious to what is happening.

At Nissan’s plant in Sunderland, on July 15, hundreds were isolating because of the epidemic, adversely affecting operations.

These levels of absenteeism will be repeated all over our country, with severe negative effects on our economy.

But does Boris care? He intends to get rid of all the major steps designed to stop the spreading of this nasty disease.

He was strongly advised against this foolish act but all such advice to the Prime Minister seems to fall on deaf ears.

My view is that before the end of

August, most of these measures will be reintroduced.

We will have to deal with thousands of early deaths of close ones and other suffering resulting from isolation.

Does Boris care for all our sufferings? Obviously not.

Suresh Chauhan, Glen Parva