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Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Covid was "nature’s way of dealing with old people" and he agreed that "we should let the old people get it" (www.opendemocracy.net)
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Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, made the comments in his diary on 14 December 2020, amid a huge Covid wave that led to the third UK-wide lockdown and killed 1,000 people a day at its peak.

Vallance claimed Johnson said that a lot of his party “thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them”, the Covid inquiry heard.

The UK Covid-19 Inquiry is an independent public inquiry into the United Kingdom 's response to, and the impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future.

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[–] bappity 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

look at any footage of British people in public being asked about Brexit and you'll immediately understand how the fuq he got voted in

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The british education system isn't exactly great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This isn't just a British problem. Putting politicians in charge of education when they have an incentive to keep voters dumb is not the smartest move democracies ever made.