Science is not a casino

Science is pretty clear: If you take a certain course of action, these will be the consequences.

Only one of the Tory supporting papers has any negative coverage of Johnson's press conference, and that i The Times, which calls the unlocking and removal of all protection on July 21st, a "gamble".

Yesterday, official figures show a 53.2% increase in positive tests on a rolling 7 day average, 27,334 people had a positive test.

The Government says that there is nothing in the data that suggests changing the dates of the lockdown.

The data says otherwise.

The Government is gambling with the unvaccinated part of the population's heath. These are mostly children and young adults. The effects of COVID and long COVID on them are unclear, but data suggests organ and brain, if not damage, then impared funtion.

The Mail calls out "gloomy" scientists. The people who have studied things like this all their lives, know what happens when a virus is allowed to ramage through a partly vaccinated population: mutations, vaccine resistant strains, another winter in lockdown, maybe years with no end to lockdown. The UK becoming COVID island.

Johnson has bet aganst the virus on a number of occasions, decisions that have cost tens of thousands of lives. He lost every time, but thinks this time it will be different.

I no longer have words for ths stupidity, the stupidity that imposed Brexit on itself, and now plans to infect the young people of this country with a novavirus.

At least I can say I ddn't vote for this, Jen and John did, and millions of others like them.

It will those in service industries that will suffer most from the unmasking, those who have already suffered so much and at the same time kept the country fed and on the move. Once upon a time we clapped for these, now we will cough over them and infect them so more get ill and some will die.