The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool — a faculty unheard of nowadays. In old days, once a year at any rate a fool would recognise that he was a fool, but nowadays not a bit of it. And they have so muddled things up that there is no telling a fool from a wise man. They have done that on purpose.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Bobok (1873)
Coronavirus: Too many people getting COVID-19 tests are 'not eligible', says health secretaryThe Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the Government would eventually like all Britons to take a coronavirus test every morning to unlock the nation
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I can understand the decision-making behind the first steps the Government took with the lockdown, etc. New virus, insufficient data, scare stories coming out of China, international pressure, etc. It made some sort of sense.
Now, though, it's looking more sinister.
The over reaction on an international scale makes no sense, all previous pandemics were much more virulent than this one and had none of the 'for your own safety and saving the NHS' measures put in place.
I don't go with conspiracy theories, but after the information about China got out it seems no other country, apart from Sweden! wanted to have any accusations of having blood on their hands and all went along to some degree with the measures, in effect what we are seeing regardless of the stupidity and enormous financial and social cost is a case of CYA, cover your arse.
Sam - it is looking more sinister. The next post touches on that, but what is behind the sinister aspect isn't easy to fathom. Could be nothing more than familiar human nature.
Wiggia - it could be a dose of cover your arse, which can be amazingly powerful when people will absolutely not admit to having made mistakes.
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