Johnson, who has the social conscience of a Heinrich Himmler, put the acceptable cost of saving the life of a COVID-19 patient at £30,000.
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Britain’s i newspaper has revealed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has conducted “a cost-benefit analysis” to determine whether “saving lives” through further lockdowns can be justified based on the “effect of deaths on the UK economy.”
Two government advisors told the i that closed-door discussion had established an “acceptable level of Covid-19 deaths” at around 1,000 deaths a week.
According to one adviser, Johnson had privately accepted that there would be at least a further 30,000 deaths in the UK over the next year, and that he would “only consider imposing further [COVID-19 safety] restrictions if that figure looked like it could rise above 50,000.”
Johnson, who has the social conscience of a Heinrich Himmler, put the acceptable cost of saving the life of a COVID-19 patient at £30,000. However, this proposed upper limit for treating a patient was then combined with a calculation of “how much each life lost costs the UK economy.”
I wonder how he’d feel if the 1000 deaths a week were of children. Unlikely at the moment but who knows what the next variant will bring. The economy is the only metric that matters to Johnson which does not bode well for his government’s promises about climate action and the environment although 1000 deaths a week would lead to a smaller carbon footprint for the UK.
Given that this is a man who refuses to say publicly just how many children he himself has, I wouldn’t wager he’s particularly emotionally invested in them as an abstract concept.
