Well, did you see Boris Johnson on the telly tonight? “There now follows a party political broadcast by a bloke who deliberately ruffles up his hair before going on air.” “Get your booster, get your booster, get your booster, (whispers quietly) regular NHS appointments will be cancelled, get your booster, get your booster, (whispers even more quietly) the top medics and scientists say the NHS will be overwhelmed soon into the New Year, get your booster.” “Ha ha ha – look at his hair, his suit doesn’t fit, ha ha ha – good old Boris. I love Boris, he makes me laugh.”
Anyway, tonight’s Bertie Boosterism didn’t fool me. And why? Because Johnson wouldn’t have gone on national television to say virtually nothing new unless he knew we were in the shit. If you listened to his actual words, he literally said, “No one should be in any doubt, there is a tidal wave of Omicron coming and we are going to do fuck all about it until the New Year when it’s all too late.” (He may not have said the last bit: I was too busy cursing.)
Our chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance said this: “My mantra for a long time during this [pandemic] has been “you’ve got to go sooner than you want to in terms of taking interventions, you’ve got to go harder than you want to, and you’ve got to go more geographically broad than you want to.” Unless you have been living in a cave for the last two years – and I sometimes wish I had been – you’d know that Johnson doesn’t operate this way.
Basically, if you’ve got a bit of cancer going on, that treatment may have to wait a bit longer. If you’re in a years long waiting list for your ailing mental health, then try not to lose your remaining marbles just yet.
My feeling remains the same. In a week’s time, maybe less, Johnson will be on the box again this time to cancel Christmas. And many of us will say, Al (none of his friends or family call him Boris), you can just do one. Fuck off back to your illicit parties and stay out of my way. Because if you keep on like this, I’m gonna get mad.
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