Let the bodies pile high

 It’s so difficult to know who to believe isn’t it? 

I mean, on one hand you have a lovable rogue, the tousle haired bumbling serial shagger, who bats off any suggestion of wrong-doing by answering a completely different question. 

“Prime Minister, did you promise James Dyson that his employees would be exempt from the extra tax that you promised would be part of your new Brexit arrangements?”

“I’d move heaven and earth to get ventilators.”

“Did he actually build you any though?”

“Did you want people to die.”

After all, the man has a perfect grasp on honesty and integrity. These are the words he used to describe his affair with Jennifer Arcuri (a woman only a few years older than his daughter, bizarrely named Lettuce), in his marital home, who he also gave government contracts to while he was Mayor of London. Unless he told his wife then I think we can be certain that honesty isn’t a word he understands.

Then, on the other hand, we have Dominic Cummings, who drove to Barnard Castle, while he had Covid to test his eyesight and sat in a rose garden to claim he had done nothing wrong. Honesty and integrity, being his modus operandi. If you’ve not read his blog then you are missing out. He even writes [pause]  where he wants you to believe he is thinking. 

Boris says that Cummings is a systemic leaker (They make tena pads for men too) and Cummings says that Boris is a liar.

It’s just so difficult to know who to believe.

It’s uncomfortable to believe that any Prime Minister would have said, during a pandemic, No more fucking lockdowns. Let the bodies pile high in their thousands.”

It’s just such an inhumane response. However, it seems as though there are people other than Dom Cummings (I went with Dom because I’m never sure how to spell Dominic) who are saying it is true. People who do actually possess honesty and integrity. 

Now, those that are defending him are saying, “Oh well, yes, um, he did say that, sort of, um, he was frustrated. He didn’t want a third lockdown.”

None of us wanted a third lockdown. Leicester would have quite liked to not have had one huge lockdown. However, given the choice how many of us would have honestly argued to let bodies pile up in the streets? Apart from the pointlessness of it, it would also create a bigger public health issue. I know it was a long time ago but if there’s one thing we should have learnt from the Black Death it’s that piling bodies up in streets is not a good idea. 

By resisting the scientists who pressed for the lockdowns we have been caught in a worst of all worlds situation. Lockdowns have lasted longer and been more frequent than in countries where they went early and more people have died. If he had really believed that allowing the virus to sweep through the population, killing off a large percentage and leaving those left with herd immunity then he should have stuck to his guns. The devastation would have have been awful but at least it would have been quick. 

But, like I say, it’s difficult to know who to believe. Apparently, we, the public, don’t care. According to opinion column writers it’s not something we should get upset about.