The problem with English Common Sense in the age of Covid.

Common sense doesn’t prevail on the London Underground

A while back — pandemic-time is amorphous, it could have been weeks or months ago — Michael Gove announced that the government would rely on the common sense of the British people when it came to mask wearing and social distancing.

My initial thought was that this was the same people who’d elected him and his friends into government, and had voted for Brexit, both…