O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

[swaledale]

I don’t think you read what I wrote, Andy. I did say IF they deliver, all credit to them, but Johnson’s already backtracking and they’re already talking about delivering the vaccine in a way the manufacturers don’t necessarily approve of.

I want this Government to succeed in the vaccination process as much as you do and I’m genuinely glad for your Mum, but the way forward is is for a united Worldwide effort not nationalistic selfishness and tub thumping. If that’s ‘idealistic’ then it’s probably an indictment of the current state of humanity...where’s your man JC when we need him.

I'd say it has always been the state of humanity rA and people are either too lazy, too self obsessed or simply too stupid to recognise it. Anybody who has the temerity to suggest that there could be a different approach is dismissed as an idealist.

That of course is the lazy approach of people who seem to be unaware that much of what they enjoy in life today, be they vaccines, the health service, better wages, better working conditions, the right to free speech, better safety, have all been achieved by people who were idealists.

Of course ideals are not always fully attainable, but if there isn't the vision or the ideal then very little will be achieved.

Sadly to the simplistic mind, nationalistic tub thumping will always be attractive.

[ramAnag]

I'd say it has always been the state of humanity rA and anybody who has the temerity to suggest that there could be a different approach is dismissed as an idealist.

That of course is the lazy approach of people who seem to be unaware that much of what they enjoy in life today, be they vaccines, the health service, better wages, better working conditions, the right to free speech, better safety, have all been achieved by people who were idealists.

Of course ideals are not always fully attainable, but if there isn't the vision or the ideal then very little will be achieved.

Nutshell time...completely agree.