Okay, here's some clarity: the government failed to act. When they did, it was under duress and they didn't really want to do it. Now they're sick of the emergency measures - they're expensive for them - and want to stop.

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So they're preparing the ground to move responsibility for public health onto individual citizens. This won't work. It requires collective action that we all do together, and which is led by public bodies large enough to manage it, eg governments, BMA, NHS trusts, etc.

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But they don't really believe in government - they wanted to use it as a fun way of getting their kicks with applause for Brexit and enriching themselves and their mates,

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and a public health crisis that requires them to be GROWNUPS who govern RESPONSIBLY and with the COLLECTIVE WELFARE OF SOCIETY at its heart is an inconvenient buzzkill for them and they just want it to go away. So they're acting as if it has.

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But it hasn't. And all this deliberately confusing messaging, and this talk about "personal responsibility" is simply their way of preparing the ground to pass THEIR failures off as OURS.

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Because they told us to "stay alert," so now if we get sick it's our fault. (Even if it happens because we were forced to go back to work in an unsafe environment, on public transport, because we don't have a car).

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They want the economy back up, and if it costs a few tens of thousands of lives, so what? And yes, the economy matters - it's people's livelihoods - but government support can help protect that while we deal with a disease that is LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE.

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The urgency of "needing to get the economy back up" is a CHOICE. It's not a fact of nature, like, oh, a virus.

That's what's going on here.

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