Dive for cover – Boris Johnson is invoking ‘morality’ in his Covid policies | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian

Yes, the schools should reopen next month – but where was the talk of morality at the height of the first wave?We should beware. The prime minister has recovered from Covid-19 only to be struck down by a new ailment: morality.Not reopening schools next month, says Boris Johnson, would be “socially intolerable, economically unsustainable and morally indefensible”. The harm done to children’s prospects and mental health would be “far more damaging” than any risk from the virus. “We have a moral duty” to act. Continue reading…

Yes, the schools should reopen next month – but where was the talk of morality at the height of the first wave?

We should beware. The prime minister has recovered from Covid-19 only to be struck down by a new ailment: morality.

Not reopening schools next month, says Boris Johnson, would be “socially intolerable, economically unsustainable and morally indefensible”. The harm done to children’s prospects and mental health would be “far more damaging” than any risk from the virus. “We have a moral duty” to act.

Continue reading…