The most popular comment under one of the articles in today’s ST:
“My! My! My! Has the Grauniad/Observer barred all comments from its' columns this fine Sunday morning? All their disaffected, sclerotic, whinging moaners, still upset at December's election result, appear to have gravitated here to pour scorn on the PM.
Dominic is simply pointing out the blindingly obvious. For all of Fleet Street's attempts to rubbish Boris. the public quite like him. They certainly greatly prefer him to the alternatives on offer, both back in December and now in May.
As always, the child-like news media now attempts to portray Covid-19 like some football or cricket match and then to lay blame for the numbers on some poor individual, or small group of politicians.
This is simplistic nonsense. It portrays a world, supposedly of either dead Right, or dead Wrong answers to enormously complex problems, when any thoughtful, unbiased person, particularly those who've been exposed to some elements of a scientific education, knows that the choices are fiendishly difficult.
Rather like caring for an aged, ill and/or demented parent - There are often no right answers. Merely, less-wrong ones, in my experience.
It is interesting to note that the countries who seem to be faring best are in South-East Asia, where South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore, all had the benefit of two dry-runs, in the past 20 years, with SARS & MERS. They got the enviable chance of experimenting with much smaller outbreaks, and so discovered what worked best and worst. The First-World hasn't been so lucky.
It also appears clear that while the everyday workers in the NHS are brilliant, their senior management leaves something to be desired, and may even be sometimes woefully inadequate. Is this, perhaps, another case of "Lions led by Donkeys" repeating itself a century later?
Meantime, the women surveyed appear to be giving the PM the benefit of the doubt. He appears to be doing his best. Whether that proves enough won't be known for at least two years. When the scientists have dissected all the numbers to make allowances for age, obesity, population density and whatever else varies between countries. Plus the current great unknowns; why are men dying at twice the rate of women and similar fatality differences between BAME and white populations? Then we may be in some position to make facile judgements on the politicians. But for the moment, the public is mostly observing a tactfully respectful silence. Oh, that the media would follow their example”.
Well said that man.
