{"id":125333,"date":"2023-12-05T00:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=125333"},"modified":"2023-12-05T00:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T00:45:12","slug":"covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=125333","title":{"rendered":"Covid Inquiry: Boris Johnson \u2018suggested medieval measures\u2019 to tackle pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s former chief of staff has confirmed to the Covid Inquiry that early in the pandemic the then-prime minister offered to be injected with virus on television, to show it did not pose a threat. The inquiry also heard that he referred to \u201cwhiskey and a revolver\u201d and spoke about \u201cmedieval measures\u201d to tackle\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Johnson\u2019s former chief of staff has confirmed to the Covid Inquiry that early in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic.png",988,554,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic-300x168.png",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic-768x431.png",640,359,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic.png",640,359,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic.png",988,554,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic.png",988,554,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic.png",988,554,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic-825x554.png",825,554,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/125333-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-suggested-medieval-measures-to-tackle-pandemic-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=43\" rel=\"category\">Health<\/a>","tag_info":"Health","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}