What a surprise; the vaccine task force is being run by...a venture capitalist!
How much longer?
Day after day the gaslighting and the mismanagement (if they are to be viewed separately) continue. Tories get up in the chamber and exercise their privilege, whining about how they cannot continue exploiting people during this crisis. They continue to play with a ruinous economic deadline while at the same time handing the vital process of procuring and providing a vaccine, the only answer to this nightmare, to their own. Who needs experts!
They are not going to relax their ill-advised Christmas rules. Though, at this point, what difference would changing them have made; it's not as if they can ever hope to enforce them. The state has spend nine months persuading people to do the wrong thing through their hypocrisy and confused rules. All the while we can see right through them, and that is what provokes the inevitable rebellion. I'm sure many will act responsibly, but that isn't going to be enough if we want to truly suppress this virus. Which, since the end of Summer, we have not.
At this point it is only a vaccine that can save us. Unfortunately there will be those who think that means they can do as they please, holding out for the injection they likely believe will be imminent. The more we put the health service under pressure, the more the virus spreads, and the greater the threat to successful roll out of this vaccine. There is no other solution. It hasn't burned itself out, and it doesn't appear if it's likely to. What we got away with during the warm blue season we cannot now. Winter is unyielding and unforgiving.
And that's before taking into account the usual pressures faced by the NHS during the winter. To be fair, some of these will be suppressed because of lockdown and the meagre curtailment of social interaction we are currently experiencing. I gather the effect of flu during the last season, coinciding with the first lockdown, was reduced. Perhaps that will happen this time, if we're lucky.
I'm sick of Johnson's tiresome puerile posturing. I need to find something else to discuss; I'm getting Covid Overload (fortunately not in the worst way).
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