Hail the glorious leader

It would be fair to say that I have little time for Johnson, nevertheless I want him to recover as much as anyone else, it's a horrible illness, and I'm not a monster...that's his role. What I really don't get is this cult of the glorious leader thing that's emerging around him. All over social media you've got...ooh he saved us, ooh he's a hero, ooh he's sacrificed so much for us, what utter delusionally nonsense. The idea that Johnson is any kind of hero, let alone one who's gone above and beyond to protect the nation is ludicrous, and is certainly not born out by any of the evidence. Remember, this is the same Prime Minister who watched the Covid-19 pandemic developing around the world and did nothing, failed to prepare, failed to procure the necessary equipment and medicines, just failed to act. Johnson watched with complacency, puffed up with the hubris of his recent victories, as Italy fell hard to the disease, though still allowed people to return without from there and other infected communities without any screening or any monitoring. This is the man who insists his government follows the medical and scientific evidence and advice, though whose best strategy for facing the epidemic was to ''take it on the chin'', ''let it run through the country'' in order to develop herd immunity (herd immunity being a consequence of an epidemic to be mitigated, it's an outcome rather than a strategy), until the modelled predictions of that course of inaction suggested a worse case scenario of 250,000 to 500,000 dead. The same Prime Minister who chortled enthusiastically about shaking the hands of people suffering from Covid-19 whilst on a hospital visit. And then when he finally realised the gravity of the looming national disaster, far too late, he acted indecisively, bluster-mumbling lacklustre confused messages and half measures which lacked authority or cogency. Right up to him falling to the illness, he still had no screening at entry points into the country, still slow to roll out testing, still failing to procure and supply the front line with the necessary equipment and medicines. Johnson and the government left every one of us vulnerable, they left NHS staff and all key workers particularly vulnerable, woefully ill equipped, desperately overstretched and under staffed. Look, I understand why the government and their media allies are keen to promote the 'hero leader' of dedication and sacrifice narrative, it works to their advantage, you can't knock heroes. It distracts people from the truth, and helps mould the narrative that Johnson and his government did their damnedest for the country... always only following the medical and scientific evidence and advice.  What I really don't understand though, is why people would be so eager to believe such utter nonsense entirely at odds with the evidence. Ah, just another day cognitively dissonant Britain.