The problem with Winter is that it's just too fucking long. Especially during a plague. Here on Plague Island. The one time you'd want the Tories to be shutting the borders, the one time it's actually kind of necessary (and not in a point and sneer at refugees in failing boats way), is the one time they actually don't want to. Says it all really. the borders must remain porous because...international finance and because big business (Specifically the airlines) whisper sweet nothings into the ears of Rishi Sunak. That's who's really running the show currently. It's a giant farce. They will fix and solve nothing. Winter is going to be a long, dreadful, slog. The cases appear to be declining, going by the percentage of people testing positive, but this is a slow clip.
It could be properly accelerated if the government actually supported people. But in ten months they've learned nothing, changed nothing, and prepared nothing. Instead we have ministers taking their turn to be humiliated by Piers Morgan, who, make no mistake, is a scumbag. He's no friend of the working class, but sport is sport. This time it was Gavin Williamson; possibly the least competent human ever to take office. He's had a year to prepare schools/education. Now the Daily Mail is taking up the challenge of providing laptops for kids to learn. How is that difficult? How cynical is the Daily Mail. They have spent ten months calling lockdown measures into question, but now, with practiced cynicism, they pretend to care about poor (ie working class) kids. Of course their campaign isn't directed at the right people: the rich and the ruling class. The government, who should be sorting this out. No, they will appeal to the public good will and expect them to shoulder the burden. We pay taxes for this ffs.
Sitting and looking out the window, as I am right now on a relatively clear evening, I think I can see my mental health slipping. It's like a loose roofing tile or a wobbly tooth. Can this ever be repaired? Covid could well leave scars forever, if we ever get through it - and the longer that takes the more difficult the healing process. To say nothing of those frontline staff experiencing PTSD and real trauma. Our society is being reshaped daily by this. I think this will be the last lockdown, which isn't to say there won't be others, but that the clown government will fail to implement further successful ones. Already people are reticent to behave, that is the problem right now. Too many business open, unsupported. Fines being ratcheted up to absurd levels for ordinary people. These wont' work; you might as well fine people ten million quid. If they know they can't pay, they won't care. The riche of course can get away with it all, and make no mistake they surely do. I don't doubt there are tons of Dominic Cummings' out there. They just haven't been caught yet.
I'm getting existentially tired of all this. But then who isn't. The same routine every day, in cold weather that makes it all feel forced. I have to go out for a walk, but I don't remotely enjoy the cold. It all feels a struggle with no respite. I have things I can do. But knowing there's no way to take a break from it all is a real problem. There are no safety valves. I don't think this situation can continue. If this lockdown extends even into deepest February I think this government, who plainly don't care in their ivory towers, will struggle to maintain the social order. People will just give up.
I support the lockdown idea; I believe in the science, which is proven. But they were never meant to be implemented over and over again like this. Scientists devising these policed, examining the data, assume, I think, that most governments aren't going to be run by utter clowns. But our lot seem hell bent on dispelling that assumption. We are the worst performing nation in the world, with no desire to take any responsibility. Priti Patel just says "you have to put it in context". Meaningless; an utterly vapid thought terminating cliche. It has no value at all. Consequently we lurch in and out of lockdown. That isn't how it's meant to work. What's meant to happen is that you prepare your track and trace so you can get on top of outbreaks.
We know how that went.
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