I Know What You Covid This Summer

The fundamental flaw of the government's 'response' to covid is simply ignoring the need to support people. This will ever be their undoing. It's ironic that Mogg can tweet how he thinks it's not cricket for firms to practice 'fire and rehire' policies. But he won't vote to support people, or to not starve children. Is he cynical or stupid? More likely it is the ignorance born of privilege, patriotism, and class propaganda. A massive blind spot that isn't explained away through moral failing or simple wealth. It is why we must dismantle the class system, before it kills (more of) us.

There is an article in the Guardian reporting on modelling done by the Sage scientists. They say that imminent changes, the opening of shops and, sigh, gyms (zoos and museums offend me less), are highly unlikely to cause a problem. However they do say that, come summer, with the totality of changes planned we will see a significant and serious third wave. Of course this is speculative. The tragedy of the anti lockdown thinking is that it dismisses the only tool we have in a novel pandemic: modelling. We can't know how a novel virus will affect the population without letting it run rampant, and we can't do that. It's disingenuous and stupid. But the reality is this is what happened last year; in the end too much was flung open while the virus was still present. It's likely to be present, somewhere somehow, come the Summer. They aren't terribly optimistic about the efficacy of herd immunity, the effect of nationwide mass vaccination. This all boils down to my first point: our government is simply unwilling to do what is necessary to address this crisis.

Still at least the weather will be nice....hopefully. Right now it's April and freezing cold. I knew it would be. We aren't so lucky as to have two nice Spring seasons consecutively. Besides we've fucked the environment and so these weather patterns, polar air coming further south, will be the norm. Well done us.

Finally, has there been a day gone by, since he flounced out like a child, where Piers fucking Morgan has not been milking it publicly? Now he's been interviewed by, sigh, Tucker Carlson. The fascist's friend. No doubt warmly received to further this tired trope about cancel culture. This whole thing is just disgusting. As if Morgan is the victim when he chose to walk out after a colleague, a person of colour, called him out on his bullshit. They don't like it up 'em! Alex wasn't rude to him, didn't 'disrespect' him, though Morgan isn't the least deserving of any, but now he's the bad guy? That's racism, rigt there.