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It comes as Sir John Bell, a member of the UK's vaccine taskforce, called for a circuit breaker and said the situation in the country was “pretty grave”.

 

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'Circuit breaker' is only a METAPHOR, an inept one to boot. Covid doesn't run along wires, nor does it have the predictability of an electric current. Might work. Might not. But repeating the phrase is just surrendering to the 'bewitchment of language'.

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