Very few of us alive thought we would ever hear a prime minister of the United Kingdom, with its centuries old liberties, order us to stay in our homes, and only venture out, and never in groups, to acquire what we need to stay alive or for basic essential exercise – on pain if we disobey of being arrested and fined by the police.
His reason, that won’t have escaped you (I hope), is rarely in our history have we faced such a threat to the lives of those we hold most precious as that posed by Covid19. And never in its 72-year existence has the NHS teetered so precariously close to collapse, because of the demands it faces from those with the virus who are struggling for air.
Boris Johnson felt he had no choice, because not enough of us obeyed his initial less binding instructions to avoid social contact.
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