Save the anger for the man who put us in this position - Boris

Handout photo issued by 10 Downing Street of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on coronavirus (COVID-19). PA Photo. Issue date: Wednesday June 10, 2020. See PA story HEALTH Coronavirus. Photo credit should read: Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street/Crown Copyright/PA Wire

Vast vitriol has been bandied about in the direction of one another, which leads me to suspect we are all falling into Boris Johnson’s sweaty little paws.

Do not get cross with teachers for schools not opening – Boris has stolen your child’s education. Do not get cross with a virus for hospitals not being able to offer routine surgery or cancer treatments – Boris has stolen our health and he ruined the NHS before Covid by refusing to fund it.

Johnson and his arrogant refusal to listen throughout January and February and most of March, has stolen time with our loved ones, time for freedom, and our liberties. Get cross with Boris. Unite.

A toxic mess of hostility

So much of the world is grieving at the moment, for so many lost liberties.

Some of us are grieving for our loved ones, the greatest loss of all.

Others are experiencing a different kind of grief, but still grief.

It is grief for their lost GCSEs, the culmination of 12 years of schooling, dashed at the final hurdle.

We cannot even reach out for the arms of loved ones to comfort us. Social media has become a toxic hot mess of hostility, with all of us judging, sometimes wrongly and sometimes rightly.

We lose perspective in our Boris bubbles and need the dilution of being out in society with friends and support.

Never in our lifetimes has there been a year like the one that 2020 is currently shaping up to be.

We are trapped behind glass, peering out at it, with little but a device to bang away on and social media to live through.

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