One of the characteristics of Boris Johnson's government is its ability to pretend that events will happen when evidence suggests that to be very unlikely.
The whole of the Brexit narrative - and the dismissal of what they called ‘project fear', which was actually a pretty accurate description of what might happen - was evidence of that.
The same is happening with Covid. The government is pretending that there will be no need for lock down this autumn when we know the number of cases is rising, as are deaths and the pressure on the NHS, and that this can only get worse as school cases increase and universities return to face-to-face teaching. Today the government is saying there will be no more lockdowns and that Christmas will not be cancelled even though this is happening:
Reality and the government's narrative are in conflict and they are pretending that their lies will win the day despite the rising number of deaths and the impossibility if the NHS providing care as demands on it continue to to rise.
Falsehoods cannot win against this pandemic, but that will not stop this government trying them. We will pay the cost until something is done to stop Johnson. With regard to which it's always worth remembering that Tory MPs always support their leader until the moment when they don't, when they are pretty ruthless, as Thatcher found out.
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Richards you have been very clear on MMT but after hearing John Swinney (SNP) waffle when asked about quantative easing could you explain how a central Bank can be set up in Scotland and the good and the bad points?
Might you look at what Tim Rideout has written on this?
Hmmmm………….I’m worried that a siege mentality is growing in the Tory party driven by TINA thinking but also because they are in many ways facing unique challenges (and of course, coming up short).
And it’s easy for the MPs to ‘tough it out’ when it’s the general population who are actually doing the ‘toughing’.
What I mean is that I hope that you are right.
The **fact** is that 25,000 or more people have tested positive for coronavirus each and every day since the beginning of July. In the past month it has been more like 30,000 to 40,000 per day. Since 1 July, the cumulative total has gone up from 4.8 to 7.1 million people, Many will be fine, but tens of thousands will be suffering with long COVID symptoms for months.
Thankfully vaccination has kept down hospitalisations and deaths, but thousands of people have been admitted to hospital – around 500 to 750 per day for the last couple of months and now approaching 1000 people per day, all so ill with COVID that they are admitted to hospital. The cumulative total has gone up by 50,000 in two months. And they are not all getting better quickly. The numbers still in hospital have risen slowly from 2000 on 2 July to 6000 on 26 July and 8000 on 6 September.
And the death toll continues. The average has been over 100 per day since 19 August, and now about 125 per day. Another 6000 people have died of COVID since 1 July.
And all the indicators still seem to be rising.
As the stats from https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/ will show, tens of thousands of cases among younger age groups each week turn into hundreds of deaths, largely among the very highly vaccinated cohorts aged 50 and over, and particularly those aged 70 and over. Kids, don’t kill your grandparents, ok?
Any sane person would learn from their mistakes, particularly the ones that cost lives, but this sociopathic government seems determined to make the same mistakes again and again and again. It does not have to be this way, dammit.
Precisely
And to be blunt, many more people are going to see their lives cut short as a result of this
Shortages – blame the EU
Failure of NHS, social care – blame the workers
Inflation – blame the Chinese, EU, and the workers
Covid – blame the feckless (especially immigrants and the young)
Immigration – blame the French
Simples!