I am sorry (should I be?) to say this on a peaceful Sunday, but proof - if proof were needed - that Boris Johnson and his chums have been and still are handling the Covid program politically rather than scientifically has been highlighted by the scientists themselves, who complain that vital information is being withheld from them and decisions are being made which drastically affect our ability to lead as normal lives as possible by Downing Street alone.
'We will always be guided by the science' has been the mantra since the very beginning, so why do they create unregulated pilot test events such as concerts and festivals, then refuse to publish the resulting data? They have another agenda, and I believe it concerns big money, not the small money as earned by most people when they are actually allowed to work. If you want everyone to understand why they should be held back for an extra month or more, and why restaurants, festivals and theatres should lose even more money than they have already as they struggle for survival, then you need to be transparent with them. By not being transparent they are giving credibility to all those conspiracy theorists who we used to laugh at as nutters. Publish the bloody data.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has been begging the government to allow him to put on his latest production of Cinderella (which has been in the pipeline for years) with strict Covid protocol precautions, and he made such a good case for it that the government did a u-turn and told him he could go ahead at the last minute, and they would use the run to garner useful data (which they would not publish until it is out of date).
He said that he did not think it fair to allow him to go ahead and deny the rest of the West End and provincial theatres the opportunity to do the same, so he is not putting it on after all. Good for him. We need to stand together, because - as B.J. keeps saying - we are all in it together.
According to Boris himself, Matt Hancock is 'fucking hopeless'. We could have told him that ages ago when he was re-shuffling his cabinet.
In the US, we are being told the vaccines are protecting us from the new Delta variant. Restaurants, shops, theaters, sporting events, fairs and festivals are opening and masks are optional for anyone fully vaccinated. According to the stats, our hospitalization and death rates are the lowest they have ever been and children age 12 and up can get vaccinated. Why BJ is not being transparent is mind boggling. What's he hiding?
ReplyDeleteI used to think that he was doing his best (such as it is) under extremely difficult circumstances, but I now know that is not the case. He told some people he regarded as friends recently that he will carry out his term of office then leave politics to 'make money and have fun'. He always has an eye out for the spin-offs which come with the job, once left. The after-dinner speeches (he is good at those) the books and articles he will write (he was a journalist) and his abiding legacy of 'getting Brexit done', for better or worse. He will, no doubt, sit on many boards as a non-executive director, but his predecessor has scuppered any chances he had of any high level lobbying in their interests. He doesn't smell very good.
DeletePerhaps you do listen to me a little bit after all. I've been saying this for months.
ReplyDeleteYou could not have known about the withholding of data from scientists because it has only been withheld since May. I have been listening to you expressing your distrust of the scientists, not supporting their decisions based on the data available. You do tend to change your opinions with the wind.
DeleteI mean advice, not decisions.
DeleteI haven't believed anything since 4 weeks after it first started.
DeletePrior to that you didn't believe it was a serious problem.
DeleteYes, I had a four week window when I thought it might be.
DeleteI am speechless (for once...)
ReplyDeleteYou have your own shenanigans.
DeleteSo you tell me to keep my mouth shut?
DeleteOf course not. I am talking about Germany's mis-management of the Covid program, not your opinions on ours.
DeleteThe headline in the Daily Star was Hopeless block says hopeless bloke is hopeless - says hopeless bloke.
ReplyDeleteYes. That was a good one.
DeleteOne tends to think that BJ shuffles hi cabinet in the same way he shuffles a deck of cards - just hoping he gives himself a winning hand.
ReplyDeleteIt is the opposite of a meritocracy. Anyone of any ability that goes against him is got rid of.
DeleteGood one Weave.
ReplyDeleteIt has always been about politics for him, only reluctantly about science
He wanted the job title, not the job.
DeleteIt would be nice if you all could just get on with life. I don't understand how such a small population cannot get protected and be done with it.
ReplyDeleteWe could do were it not for global corporate investment and domestic asset strippers.
DeleteI'm with Joanne on this.
ReplyDeleteWe have been deliberately set against each other. It's an old Roman technique.
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