Friday on my mind
As India reports the highest daily number of new Chongvirus cases anywhere—314,835 in the last 24 hours, as well as a new mutant strain—London Heathrow Airport is refusing to increase the number of flights from the subcontinent before it's added to the UK's red list on Friday. Meanwhile, the UK's former chief scientific adviser, Prof. Mark Walport, believes that the addition of India to the red list may already have come too late.
It seems that BoJo's carers were a little premature in letting him out to play football. There were more important things to occupy whatever it is he has between his ears after all.
I can't help but think that when a problem is identified in one country, travel restrictions should be applied immediately. The Chongvirus doesn't respect delays, it takes advantage of them. Yes, it's tough on those who're caught out, but it's not as if none of this could've been foreseen. Especially since India is as much a dirty incubator as China, with a similarly corrupt and ineffectual bureaucracy to aid the spread of disease.
In our search for the new normal
, it appears that political incompetence will, unfortunately, transition from the old one. Some things never change.