Michael Heseltine once said of Boris Johnson: “A man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says follow me.”
How apt an insight given that the PM yesterday evening live on television announced the introduction of Covid tests for people entering the UK. The Christmas and New Year crowds at Heathrow Airport saw public opinion against open borders and untested international travel swell. Social media broadcasted videos of queues that were akin to Covid factory farms throughout the festive season. The crowd was running, and the PM dashed in front. In his live statement he babbled incoherently that measures would be taken, and as always with no details of what or when.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says “we will be bringing in measures to ensure that we test people coming into this country and prevent the virus from being readmitted”.
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Future documentaries will undoubtedly identify one of the main reasons Covid-19 decimated the health and wealth of the UK as Heathrow Airport.
When people entered Heathrow Airport during the festive season social distancing was non-existent. Tourists stood and waited in queues tightly packed with people who like them, have little or no regard for the safety of others. Their need to travel outweighs the risk to those they come into contact with while doing so.
The open and no test required border policy of the UK throughout the pandemic has recently been attributed to the South African strain of Covid-19 entering the UK. Travel to and from South Africa is now ‘restricted’, not closed, and anyone that recently travelled to the UK from South Africa is being asked to isolate. Let’s all hope they were asked nicely and choose to do so.
Every aspect of human contact currently is severely limited, including births, weddings, and funerals. You cannot visit a parent in a care home, your children can’t go to school, you can’t visit a place of worship, and in countless other ways you are forced to limit all human contact.
Thousands of hospitality businesses that have invested in providing safe hospitality are closed unable to accept any people through their doors. If hospitality doors are closed, and we understand the health reasons why, how can Heathrow’s remain open making matters worse?
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