Callous Johnson beyond satire

 Around three years ago, I posted - rather tongue-in-cheek - in another place the following imagined scenario in 10 Downing Street as Covid-19 hit these shores:

Picture the scene. The chair of the then scientific advisory committee
offers the advice that the disease was most lethal to the elderly and
those with existing health conditions, and that there was evidence that
the BAME community was disproportionately affected. Boris: "So it kills
off crusties, cripples and nig-nogs? Bring it on!"

Yesterday, the Covid-19 Inquiry heard that, according to Sir Patrick Vallance's diaries, the prime minister was at one with too many Conservative MPs who believed that Covid-19 was nature's way of dealing with the old. 

In August 2020, Sir Patrick wrote that Mr Johnson was "obsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going".

So my imagined conversation was not as exaggerated as my readers thought.