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On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that nearly all of England’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions will be lifted. Wearing masks will no longer be legally mandated, and social distancing guidelines will give way to what Johnson calls “personal responsibility” and the need to “live with” the virus.
Pending Johnson’s government’s review of the latest data next Monday, the end of the restrictions will proceed on July 19 a date many Tories and Johnson supporters have dubbed “Freedom Day.”
The rest of the United Kingdom composed of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales is following its own reopening protocols. These reopenings generally follow a similar timeline to that of England’s.
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You know it’s time to get worried when Boris Johnson starts talking about honesty. Last year, when he was still refusing to trigger lockdown ahead of the first Covid wave, he actually said “I must level with you, level with the British public, many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time”.
He wasn’t so much levelling with us as admitting belatedly that his own inaction was going to lead to large numbers of fatalities. We now know that “herd immunity”, or at least a mistaken belief that the public wouldn’t accept lockdown, lay behind that apparently fatalism on the part of the PM. Patrick Vallance’s warning that a “good outcome” would be 20,000 deaths was more right than anyone guessed.
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