It seems like everyone in the country has an opinion about whether or not lockdown restrictions should be completely lifted come July 19th as Boris Johnson said they would be yesterday during his address to the nation, with some people saying that it’s high time it should have happened and others warning that the Delta and Lambda variants could lead to a load more deaths and another lockdown in the autumn.

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It’s a loaded question right now and one that has even seen Piers Morgan and his own son Spencer get into a dispute about it. Well, sort of – they just tweeted their different viewpoints with Spencer saying that anyone who disagreed with what Boris Johnson said yesterday was insane, which is clearly a veiled barb at his father given what he had said prior.

Here are their tweets in action:

So, to summarise: we’re steaming ahead to covid ‘freedom’ on July 19 as cases & hospitalisations are accelerating again & just 1/3 of us have been fully vaccinated. Boris Johnson is taking yet another massive gamble in this pandemic – and none of his other gambles worked.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 5, 2021

OK. I wouldn’t be relaxing restrictions any further until this wave has peaked and the case/hospitalisation numbers are coming down fast not going up fast.
I prefer the relative freedom we have now to another full lockdown in the autumn because we were too impatient. https://t.co/Lw7TkyYp4k

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 5, 2021

CORRECTION: Meant to say 1/2 not 1/3.
33m out of 66m population so far fully vaccinated.
The exact data matters in this debate.. https://t.co/lkRihayNP9

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 5, 2021

Can you imagine Twitter half way through WW2?
‘I’m f*cking done with Hitler and the Nazis impinging on my liberty, so let’s stop f*cking fighting them right now and pretend they’re not there any more. I want my f*cking freedom back!’

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 5, 2021

If you disagree with a word of this right here there is only one explanation… you are insane pic.twitter.com/tf7gRP4ViJ

— Spencer Morgan (@spencermorgan93) July 6, 2021

Don’t really know what to say about this. Both of them have very valid points but as much as it pains me I probably have to go with Piers considering how disastrously every other time we’ve tried to re-open the country has gone. Yes, I get that half the population has been vaxxed but it seems sensible to wait until that figure is even higher and new cases and new variants aren’t running wild all over the place. Obviously there’s the argument about the economy/freedom/loneliness etc on the other side too, so let’s just hope Boris knows what he’s doing this time hey.

For more of the same, check out this naked man running through London on a lockdown walk. Those were the days.