O/T. The Government's handling of Covid

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I fear you have me confused for those "Guardian is always right" believing pinkos on the site, Tricky!! I will give credibility to many and various news sources, but not the Daily "wasn't Diana a wonderful" Express or the Daily "middle class housewives favourite" Mail.

Anyway, as to EU scaremongering about AZ, I find it all rather amusing. First they want loads of it, then, when told that productions snafus mean they will have to wait a bit, they get all arsey and try to block other people's supplies to hijack them for themselves. Then when this ail goes tits up, they say its crap anyway! That works for me, all the more for team UK and Boris' white red and blue army.

I have to say that the more I see of this, the more I'm inclined to your view that I'm glad we didn't buy into the EU procurement policy. It all looks like politicians playing with people's lives (but then is it ever thus). The irony of course is its an EU produced product that they are in denial about - just because there is a British connection perhaps??.

Anecdotally, I was talking to a Polish nurse that works in the German health service over the weekend and she said she was concerned about AZ simply because there was so much contrary "fake news" going round within their health service about it: mostly unofficial but in some cases, I suspect, officialdom covering its arse in case AZ is not a panacea.

Which does of course raise the question of "what if the krauts and frogs, sprouts and clogs" are right and the rosbifs wrong? Are we being fed a set of kings new clothes by UK plc? if so, will we ever know, as any inefficacy of vaccine will be blamed on new strains? I suspect, like Brexit, we (except the omniscient Swale that is) will never be able to say "ultimate success or failure" as the future will cloud over the whole thing. At the moment the vaccine is providing a positive feel for the country, there is light at the end of the tunnel (how much light will be more clear by the end of today) - lets hope that its not a false feelgood factor
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Are there any of those ‘Guardian is always right believing pinkos’ on the site? I suspect not. It definitely makes a lot more sense than the dreadful Express and Mail...but ‘always right’? I don’t think anyone would suggest that.

Personally I trust the BBC and the Independent most, and find the Guardian interesting, entertaining and an occasional source of excellent investigative journalism.

I also think your last paragraph raises some interesting and alarming questions, GP...and frankly wish our Forest supporting ‘guest’ would stop using our forum to repeatedly publicise the thoughts of the Express, the Mail and other, much more sinister, far Right publications.