Point me to any government worldwide that hasn’t made mistakes in its handling of this crisis- it’s unchartered territory and only to be expected, that doesn’t mean to say I am required to pour contempt and bile on our government in the way you have, or to ramp up the hysteria by adding my own gleeful negativity to the online chatter. I guess I am just a bit more empathetic, understanding and mature than you in that I don’t expect perfection, or that every decision taken along the way will be the right one. What matters is that at the end of the day is that the vast majority of us come out of this relatively unscathed, with the virus under control, jobs and livlihoods to go back to etc. We will all have learned so much from this, including the Nasty Party, so let’s hope that the next time something like this comes round we will be far better prepared and know exactly what needs to be done.
‘Benign neglect’ I think that about sums it up.
I don’t think your attitude has anything to do with empathy, understanding or maturity just simply that this pandemic has hardly touched you yet. You have posted that you have savings to tide you over until June, when your payment from the government is due to pop on the mat. Many, many self-employed people aren’t quite as lucky as you and due to the government’s woefully slow response to self-employed people’s worries will be facing weeks and weeks of not being able to feed their families or pay their rent. The lack of equipment hasn’t touched you because your aren’t ill yet or have loved ones whose lives depend on the equipment not being provided., whether it’s ventilators or PPE.
You are Johnson’s dream constituent...he gives you gruel, tells you it’s the finest caviar and the others are too unsophisticated to know the difference and you gobble it all up.
