People keep claiming Boris Johnson did well in combating the virus.

So, Boris Johnson announces his resignation today.. thank God.  I do not understand why though, many members of the public and Tory MP's keep claiming that Boris Johnson did well with combating covid.  It's the exact opposite!

He should have taken radical action back in late January 2020, as I suggested at the time.  But he failed to implement any measures at all (so far as I know) until late March!  Then he took no precautions at all to prevent getting the virus himself, and indeed seemed to be deliberately trying to get infected with it.  In this he succeeded, and nearly died.

Then these lockdowns kept being imposed, but by then the virus was rife, and all it achieved was to put a lid on the spread of the virus, only for the virus to spread unabated once the lockdowns were lifted.  And he won't have had anything to do with the development of the vaccines.  

People just repeat each other, they never think for themselves.  The notion that Bojo did well combating covid is simply preposterous.

Covid could cost children £350bn in earnings due to lost learning?

According to this article the Institute for Fiscal Studies claims that Covid could cost children £350bn in earnings due to lost learning.  The article says: 

The IFS estimates that such a substantial loss of learning is likely to be followed by lower skills and qualifications for children at school during the pandemic, resulting in permanently lower incomes during their careers.

What absolute nonsense.  All school kids from 4 to 18 will have lost perhaps a year or so of schooling.  Are employers not going to employ any of them?  Just employ older people instead?    How often do people use matrices or calculus or know about fronted adverbials, or utilise their knowledge of trilobites and igneous rocks?  Let's face it, there's precious little that kids learn that will translate or be useful to their careers. What employers should be interested in are peoples' skills for the job and how hard they will work.  The former will be acquired from experience, not having a load of irrelevant knowledge in their heads. 

Oh yes, and I'm sure most adults won't have retained the vast majority of stuff they learnt at school anyway.  Who knows what matrices are?