The government have got everyone focused on voting for more draconian restrictions because they're hooked on scare tactics. They seem to be overlooking that the 'second wave' is actually a mere blip in mortality figures. Totally blind to the fact that the economy will be completely ruined, mental health will be the real epidemic, looming mass unemployment, homelessness and other health conditions are virtually being ignored. I know this last point to be a fact, as a friend of the family is a top neurosurgeon and he has hardly worked for the NHS for several months now. Still on full pay and so bored he's going to go back to private work. Some of his colleagues are in the same boat. Not even like they're being re-deployed to help elsewhere - just left twiddling their thumbs while non-Covid patients suffer. But keep hanging on Johnson's platitudes, false bon homie and colourful prose. He can get you all to focus on the small water leak in the basement whilst the rest of the house is burning down.
And isn't the NHS always overstretched at this time of year?