He's now driving the bus

Subject: He's now driving the bus.

As I look out of my window this morning I'm reminded of Oscar Wilds Poem, 'Ballard of Reading Jail' in which he describes his limited vision, walking around the exercise yard as that "little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky".
There are no bars on my window but the outside world seems far away. A world which has become foreign, a world with evil portent of an enemy lurking in the air waiting to pounce and move into my airways and smother the life out of me. 

The cars in the street remain stationary as people consider Boris's statement last night, what exactly did he mean. Boris Johnson is famous for his avoidance of the truth and obfuscating the obvious, and last night he lived up to his image, waffling around by trying the impossible, saying 'it's ok to go back to work but warning that it isn't'.
For some, those hardy yellow jacketed construction workers and also those who work in manufacturing, it's ok to start today, as soon as possible please but the desk bound types who's  contribution is more peripheral, stay at home.
Are the lives of the document filling staff more  valuable or is it the case that their contribution is less important. The box ticking which describes much of what goes on in offices these days can be laid aside for another month or two whilst the real economy gets on with the job of making and building things.
Of course it could be a matter of valuing one group against another.
The decision makers assimilate more with the clerical than production. Often, especially if their expertise is financial, they come from the ranks of the desk bound class and the chaps down on the shop floor are usually viewed as less educated. It was always so and perhaps as we are asked to go over the top of the trenches and leave behind the safety, for the unknown, this image of that part of society which was forever expendable and would somehow do the job for us and make things safe.
How can he urge these workers back to work when he has failed miserably to provide significant testing, the mainstay of the German back to work policy. Testing in this country has been an unmitigated failure, unsure of who should be tested, the testing grounds stood empty because of that extra layer of bureaucracy, the email, telling the testers whether the person was eligible. The farcical shortage of analysing capacity by deciding only NHS labs could be trusted with the job, resulting in having to send the tests to America for analysis. The lack of adequate follow up on what the tests reveal, the hundreds if not thousands of staff required to trace the movement of people found to have been infected.  It's not by chance that " Dads Army" was popular over here, it's so reminiscent of the way we do things.
Go to work but we won't have the mass transport to get you there. This is not a blunder rather a lack of joined up thinking, an example of 'wing it and see' which has characterised Boris's life thus far.  Unfortunately he's now driving the bus.