Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Covid was "nature’s way of dealing with old people" and he agreed that "we should let the old people get it"
Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Covid was "nature’s way of dealing with old people" and he agreed that "we should let the old people get it"
Former prime minister said he agreed that ‘we should let the old people get it’, today’s Covid inquiry heard
Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, made the comments in his diary on 14 December 2020, amid a huge Covid wave that led to the third UK-wide lockdown and killed 1,000 people a day at its peak.
Vallance claimed Johnson said that a lot of his party “thinks the whole thing is pathetic and Covid is just nature’s way of dealing with old people – and I am not entirely sure I disagree with them”, the Covid inquiry heard.
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry is an independent public inquiry into the United Kingdom 's response to, and the impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future.
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Sir you're not exactly young yourself...
He's 59 now, would have been 56 back then and let's be honest, he's very far from a marathon runner...