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That's not the whole story; one significant aspect is you start it after the first apparent breach of guidance, right at the beginning, which was Dominic Cummings going back into No. 10 after seeing his sick wife, putting others at risk instead of staying home.
That guy Richard just gave me a warning for the aforementioned post; off-topic.AAAlphaThunder wrote: ↑Tue May 26 2020 6:20amSarah I must, before my last breath, be it only for a second, meet you in person. You are everything a Man could ask for.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ch-irelandIf Cummings were half as smart as he is supposed to be, he would have shown in his press conference some glimmer of understanding that this kind of betrayal is of a completely different order to the one he and Johnson engage in so routinely. The ordinary treachery of saying one thing and doing another – there will be £350m extra every week for the NHS; there will never be a border in the Irish Sea – is mother’s milk to them. Perhaps because it is so habitual or because they are so used to getting away with it, their sense of how it works has become dulled. They missed the crucial fact that this time it’s different. This time it’s personal.
The mundane duplicity that is Cummings’ and Johnson’s stock in trade comes with a knowing smirk: you didn’t really think we meant that literally, did you? It is part of an elaborate, highly performative, game. But the rules for collective survival in a pandemic are not ironic. They are intimate. They are embodied. They are the detailed texture of the lives we live every day.
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