One does wonder if it was a wise decision to keep restrictions over the late spring / summer period last year. Would we be in a better position now if they had “let it rip” over the summer and built up some immunity?
However we could have ended up in a worse position going into the winter, starting from an even higher base than we did.
At times it does seem like whatever they try to do with this virus is doomed from the outset. We have to hope that doesn’t apply to the vaccine too - every day I half expect to turn on the news to “new mutation renders vaccine ineffective” headlines - especially if as some conspiracies believe it is true that this was a deliberate invention by the China regime!
Yes. I agree.
"No responsible government could ever allow the virus to let rip"
How many times have you heard Boris say that - but that's exactly what it is doing, it's out of the bottle and it will do exactly what it wants to do until it diminishes on it's own. The idea that you can have a government controlled virus is nonsensical - 'Let's lock everybody away for a couple of months and when we let them out again it will all have gone away' - believe that if you will!
Similarly, the Hands, Face, Space rubbish regularly pops up in adverts on the commercial channels and it must surely have come from the 'we must be seen to be doing something, however futile' perspective.
Hands, I haven't washed my hands any more than I ever have.
Face, millions of people (including me) wearing those cheap blue masks which are not intended for outside use and known to be totally ineffective.
Space, there isn't any 'social distancing'. Wherever you go, in shops, in the street, any notion that this actually happens is pure fallacy.
It's rather like the appeal, during the war, for people to give their pots and pans to build Spitfires, of course it was rubbish but people bought it, they really thought they were 'doing their bit'. Great PR but it did nothing except prove how gullible people are.
Herd mentality, you can't stop that either!
