In predictable fashion Boris Johnson has thrown in the towel and declared he can’t quite be bothered to save lives any more - because it’s all a bit like hard work. He would rather ‘let the bodies pile up than have another lockdown.’

We’ll have to save ourselves.

2021 is 2020 all over again but with better perception management. We are trapped in a loop of UK government inepitude and propaganda as it literally washes its hands twice of the pandemic while whistling Happy Birthday, Good Luck and Good Night.

It’s a populist approach to ending transmission prevention with voluntary mask wearing and social distancing, but one that may come back to haunt us. We are far from out of a pandemic with only 3% of the globe vaccinated and at a dangerous crossroads with only half the UK population vaccinated during the cusp of a Third Covid Wave. The Delta Covid variant is far more transmissible and with the over 80’s vaccinated, most deaths are now in the over 55’s, young people are still vulnerable, the Long Covid victims and bereaved quickly forgotten.

But maybe people don’t want the truth.

What better way to end a pandemic than to pretend it isn’t happening. All the government cares about is a PR success and if that means using Orwellian Doublethink, then they are not afraid to use it. Success without success. Success without remorse. Let’s take a moment to reflect on this right wing media headline from June 4th, 2021: ‘Opening Up Will Make Us Healthier’ and remember the government’s own so-called Freedom Day on June 21st was recently cancelled.

Scientists have long maintained that the best path out of a pandemic is not with vaccines alone, but with physical distancing measures and masks to ensure more dangerous variations do not evolve unchecked to elude vaccines and render them useless.

So what will the government be doing while we endure a pandemic that may now never go away as ‘we all have to learn to live with it?’ Boris Johnson will be busy putting up curtains in No.11 and writing a book about his epic Covid battle that was never won, Matt Hancock will be enjoying his new bachelor lifestyle, and Sajid Javid will be the new lockdown sceptic ‘health’ secretary busy comparing Covid to Flu to shore up the ailing economy while privatising the NHS. Probably.

While people get sick and die. This all sounds strangely familiar…

How quickly we all forget. Another Summer of complaceny awaits us because by Autumn some of us will be paying for it with our lives and we will be stuck in reverse all over again.

History is repeating itself.

Welcome back to time loop 2020. Plague Island.