Boris Johnson is right that we have to live with Covid, but he’s not making it easy | Simon Jenkins

Managing the pandemic is a balance of personal liberty and public safety, and the government needs to tread a fine line

Eighteen months is a long time in Covid politics. Boris Johnson’s much-flagged series of announcements this week for the UK will mark his route “back to normal” and to “learning to live with the disease”. Like most people, he has matured over the past year, a journey from carelessness to panic to pragmatism. The journey was never about “following the science”. It was following t...