Source - Spiked 21/02/22
The Covid public-health emergency has been over for a very long time now. The emergence first of safe and effective vaccines, and then of a less harmful and more transmissible variant, really ought to have been the end of the matter. And yet, Boris Johnson’s eminently sensible plan, announced today, to drop mandatory isolation and to scale back mass testing, has drawn the lockdown fanatics out of the woodwork once again. It is dangerous, reckless, irresponsible, the usual experts screech. Of course, had we heeded their advice in the recent past, we would never have opened up last summer and would have been slammed back into lockdown this Christmas. We might have even followed a Zero Covid policy, which only authoritarian China is still trying to keep up. Ending all the legal Covid restrictions is an important first step to restoring the correct relationship between expert advice and democratic politics. Experts should be on tap, but never on top.
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