tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1275022438577991427..comments2024-03-29T07:14:55.029+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: The Winter Covid Plan's Reckless StupidityPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-77324737077616191622021-09-17T12:24:00.150+01:002021-09-17T12:24:00.150+01:00When you make someone like Javid the health minist...When you make someone like Javid the health minister (surely the most eye popping appointment since Nero make his horse a consulate of Rome) you know where the government priorities lay, and it isn't anyones health!<br /><br />"As the latest ONS figures, the only people that are now dying of Covid are the unvaccinated (99%)."<br /><br />This is totally untrue, and applies only to those under 40. Over 50 and it more alarming.<br /><br />The other point to mention is that no one knows how this virus will mutate.<br /><br />Imagine an asteroid is heading toward Earth and there is a 50:50 chance it will hit. Let us imagine we have a technology that has been tested and shown to deflect asteroids.<br /><br />The question is do we do nothing and hope for the best or do we try to deflect it?<br /><br />Of course there is only one answer to this question. It is yes btw, we try to defelct it.<br /><br />Now lets take a look at Tory policy, there answer is no, let all pray!<br /><br />National lockdown now! Zero covid strategy! The middle classes will have to eat in for a while!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61784108044775507352021-09-16T11:23:27.675+01:002021-09-16T11:23:27.675+01:00Well. I wonder if beyond vapid generalisations abo...Well. I wonder if beyond vapid generalisations about capital's 'insatiable demand to accumulate' you could consider the fact that *lockdown itself* has entrenched Tory power, further brutalised the wage relation and accelerated the ongoing anti-social atomisation of daily life? Or even the more visible fervour of the managerial classes for evermore indefinite lockdowns? Or lockdown as a demobilisation completely at odds with the mobilisation required for actual political change? Or the unequal distribution of misery lockdowns impose? Or whether trotting out technocratic disciplinary platitudes is really as anti-capitalist as you think it is? Ben Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-85500884632135891922021-09-15T09:16:58.297+01:002021-09-15T09:16:58.297+01:00Possibly they are absolutely terrified of the bala...Possibly they are absolutely terrified of the balance of power being changed. <br />You can't oppress people for decades and then, when they get power expect them to 'understand ' your behaviour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-37557629242600298692021-09-15T07:42:00.329+01:002021-09-15T07:42:00.329+01:00As the latest ONS figures, the only people that ar...As the latest ONS figures, the only people that are now dying of Covid are the unvaccinated (99%).<br />During the next months those still refusing the vaccine will get the virus, a small number will end up in hospital and a smaller minority will die.<br /><br />Unfortunately we are entering period of education for those that reject the fact that the two most important advances in human health have been clean water and vaccines, and instead believe the nonsense spread through social media.<br /><br />There is politics at play but it is not simple party politics. The growth of "alternative facts", "competing narratives" and plain old conspiracy theories has weakened the concepts of truth and reality and undermined our ability to take collective action against pandemics and climate change.<br /><br />Grahamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56724905722987430212021-09-15T07:34:22.440+01:002021-09-15T07:34:22.440+01:00Ciao from Italy! Just returned from a trip to UK w...Ciao from Italy! Just returned from a trip to UK where I was shocked by the covid laxity - only 50 percent of people wearing masks on trains, etc. Elsewhere - pubs, restaurants, shops, etc - it is like covid does not exist, but then doesn't the UK (increasingly post-Brexit) behave as if the rest of the world doesn't exist, except America?<br /><br />Here - masks are obligatory in all public buildings.<br />- no entrance into bars, restaurants, cinema, gym, concert etc without Covid passport (and then you have to remain masked when you get up/ between activities)<br /><br />- vax obligatory for all teachers and healthworkers, civil servants and anyone working for a private company - so basically everyone. They began vaxing kids before summer. <br /><br />- no travel on intercity trains or planes (obviously) without passport. <br /><br />Reported infections are running at an average of 5,000 per day here compared with 30,000 in the UK. <br /><br />Covid is not going away, but it will certainly not be stemmed while the UK sits off Europe cultivating a pool of infections. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com