Boris Johnson's illness is not a metaphor | mrseankelly
Anyone would be shocked to find themselves in Johnson’s position – none more than Johnson himself. He doesn’t really hold with sickness. You might have guessed this from his actions of a month ago, when he visited a hospital, and proudly said, “I shook hands with everybody”. That is because Johnson sees himself as Churchillian, indestructible. As his biographerLater, Johnson stopped shaking hands, converted to the reality of this virus.
If we are learning that this particular misfortune is not a pointer to moral failings, perhaps, after this is all over, we could consider applying that more broadly.
The point is not that everybody is equally vulnerable. This crisis is not the great leveller some claim – poor people will become poorer, those with insecure work will become less secure, those already sick will suffer most. Like every crisis, the virus simply makes visible what was already true.Everybody who was alive when JFK was killed remembers where they were, just as I remember where I was when I heard the Twin Towers had been hit.
Memories from this period will blur, are blurred already. We will forget so much. But when it’s all over, I hope some memories stay with us – like our recognition of the fact that people don't, with their actions, call misfortune upon themselves. Misfortune simply arrives, unbidden and unfair.
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