Boris Johnson Suggested He Thought Covid Was ‘Nature’s Way of Dealing With Old People’

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Boris Johnson suggested he believed the coronavirus pandemic was "Nature's way of dealing with old people" as he resisted lockdown measures, Sir Patrick Vallance argued.

The Government's chief scientific adviser during Covid-19 wrote that the then-prime minister suggested he may have agreed with Conservatives that the "whole thing is pathetic".