Things are starting to crack I think. The application of a higher tier lockdown protocol in Manchester and Liverpool is being rejected. The government, typically, is offering no support for those whose lives it will affect. This is going to happen across the country for the next six months. The Oxford vaccine people are reporting that they don't expect anything until July at least. I don't think this situation can hold - especially come Christmas and into the New Year. There will be a push for retail and celebration. How can that happen?
Once again the media focuses on working class blame. Footage of students in Liverpool, on the eve of increased restrictions, in the streets 'partying' is of course disingenuous, but covid is the hoody of today: the latest affectation foisted on working class people, including students who are now the latest victims of the government's capitalist response. Now we have something else we can use to blame the working class.
To be sure it probably wasn't the best thing they could have done, but outdoors is much safer. Ultimately, what do you expect from people? This government is abandoning them and making no effort to help. Student have bene abandoned to the landlord class. Profit, in the form of rent, is their priority. Earlier on it was old folk, dumped out of hospitals to spare the government's blushes.
What is clear is that the Tories, in seeking to avoid blame for their ineptitude, are once again seeking to cast blame upon the working class. People are exhausted now. They want to 'come home for Christmas'. They aren't going to be able to, which could well be a flashpoint. I'm not sure the Tories realise they are playing with fire, but the only language they understand is the language of capitalism and it offers no answer to this crisis.
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