Just Saying | Blame Boris Johnson for giving my colleague the coronavirus
- Yonden Lhatoo takes it personally after a British co-worker tests positive for Covid-19, and pins it on a negligent prime minister for his arrogance, indifference and indolence in responding to a global public health crisis
She had just returned to Hong Kong after a two-week visit to London and Birmingham, and was midway through her mandatory self-quarantine in her little flat when she received the bad news.
Tracing her own movements and keeping in mind that she took social-distancing precautions to the extent of isolating herself from her own family in Britain, she reckons she must have caught the bug either during train journeys in her home country or while flying in those steaming, disease-incubation chambers previously known as planes.
When we last met more than three weeks ago, I cautioned her against travelling to a country that was doing hardly anything to protect its citizens from a scourge engulfing the entire planet. That was when some of us in this stricken region were shaking our heads in dismay at the appalling display of indifference and indolence on the part of some major Western governments in response to the pandemic, and warning that countries like the US would become the new epicentres.
