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The British Prime Minister has become more cautious since he was released from the hospital. Given the magnitude of the crown crisis, he has no choice.
Comment from Jens-Peter Marquardt, ARD Studio London
Boris Johnson would certainly have preferred a different appearance: the way the British newspapers had predicted it a few days ago. “Magic Monday” was the headline, a magical Monday was supposed to come. “Hooray! Lockdown Freedom is calling” – another headline: Freedom is supposed to be flailing after the state of emergency.
A few spinning doctors in government had apparently misunderstood something. Or they wanted to put pressure on the head of government to radically reduce stringent exit restrictions and make the economy work again. These hawks have only managed to get many Britons to anticipate the supposed relaxation in recent days and swarm en masse outdoors.
Few loosenings
A misunderstanding: Boris Johnson has become a deaf person in the intensive care unit, according to his own statements, in the last few weeks he was in the hospital. That’s why his mandate to his cabinet colleagues last week: utmost caution.
That was the end of quick freedom in Britain. Falcons in government slowed down. A little more output, a little more sport. That is all. Almost all stores continue to close, as do schools and restaurants. Perhaps the next steps in June and July, but only if the still relatively high new infections decrease markedly. On the other hand, even the hint of a new adjustment: a 14-day quarantine for all those who come from abroad is yet to come. In fact, the end of the British holiday abroad this summer.
As his own illness changed, the Prime Minister could be seen in his television speech: he has reduced his face. But it wasn’t just his own personal experience that set him back from remarkable relaxation. Its experts also predicted that the country could mourn 100,000 crown deaths if the blockade is now handled more informally.
The emergency continues
Britain is already at the top of a sad table: nowhere else in Europe have so many Covid-19 people died than in the UK: 32,000. It is not a coincidence, but the result of political failures. Also the failure of Boris Johnson, as was known before his illness. Big, bombastic, irresponsible and on the collision course with the truth. In March, when the pandemic had been around for a long time, Johnson still shook hands at hospitals where 19 Covid patients were already. Proud Britain, which would have finally defeated Nazi Germany, also had this enemy under control. And a few thousand sick people would even bring immunity to the virus. So the message in March.
The result: The British government reacted too slowly to the pandemic and was ill-prepared with a reduced public health system. Too few crown tests and too little protective clothing – this emergency continues, too, and especially in the elderly and nursing homes.
Therefore, there is no real alternative but to continue the blockade. Maybe old Boris Johnson would still have hit the gas again. The new Johnson, however, is holding back for now.
