Very high mortality amongst bus drivers and hospital workers as compared with (say) politicians had certainly shaped their viewpoint.
Yup. In that regard, I expect Boris Johnson's severe case was one of the best things to happen in the U.K. I suppose it put the Fear of God into the ruling class.
Johnson is a insufferable jerk, but what he said when he got out of the hospital was wonderful. Honest, touching, modest, grateful . . . the right thing to say and the right way to say it.