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lighter:
You'd think all failing global areas would bring in consultants from areas of the world who put competent testing programs in place, wouldn't you?
I mean.....someone already figured it out. Is it willful ignorance? Stupidity? Pride?
Lighter
Twoapenny:
I don't know, Lighter - and I also don't know how I put my last reply inside a quote box :) Lol. I suspect it's money - currently all the major systems to deal with this have been contracted out to private companies run by family members of Tory MPs. 12 billion has been spent on a Test and Trace system that doesn't work, and the woman running it is married to the MP who is supposed to investigate fairness and clarity or something like that. It's another blatant rob from the public purse and my guess is that's the underlying reason for not taking - free of charge, I think - offers of efficient testing programmes in other countries. I think as well that the cossetted, over protected public schoolboys running the country are so arrogant that they'd rather let tens of thousands die than accept help when it's offered, particularly when the whole 'we're leaving Europe, we won the bloody war' nonsense has been raging for so long now. I suspect it would be seen as showing weakness. Top docs have been saying from the beginning that test and trace should be dealt with in local areas with each local authority choosing the level of measures to take dependent on current numbers and the number of vulnerable people. Maybe if this scheme goes well that's what will happen now but to be honest I think it could all be too late anyway - it seems to be out of control again with hospitals saying they're over run and ambulance services saying they're very busy. If it's true? No-one seems to know anything anymore. Sigh. I'm off out for my walk! Have lovely day xx xx
Hopalong:
--- Quote ---the cossetted, over protected public schoolboys running the country are so arrogant that they'd rather let tens of thousands die
--- End quote ---
Hate to be so one-note as I am when I pull way back and stare hard at society.
But the truth is to me, toxic masculinity has been destroying the world for a long time. At every level. War, pollution, corruption, etc etc. Doesn't mean women can't be toxic too, but when cultures allow the toxic side of male power to dominate and fester, that kind of entitlement/arrogance rules.
Because empathy understands the power of cooperation and nurture, it is more intelligent than raw power. Raw dominance power, unfortunately, may be strategic about some systems but is stupid about humanity, imagination and community.
We're in for some hard years. Meanwhile, back to trying not to obsess over election updates more than once an hour.
Covid is like Honey Badger, and many politicians.
hugs
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Hopalong on November 04, 2020, 12:04:21 PM ---
--- Quote ---the cossetted, over protected public schoolboys running the country are so arrogant that they'd rather let tens of thousands die
--- End quote ---
Hate to be so one-note as I am when I pull way back and stare hard at society.
But the truth is to me, toxic masculinity has been destroying the world for a long time. At every level. War, pollution, corruption, etc etc. Doesn't mean women can't be toxic too, but when cultures allow the toxic side of male power to dominate and fester, that kind of entitlement/arrogance rules.
Because empathy understands the power of cooperation and nurture, it is more intelligent than raw power. Raw dominance power, unfortunately, may be strategic about some systems but is stupid about humanity, imagination and community.
We're in for some hard years. Meanwhile, back to trying not to obsess over election updates more than once an hour.
Covid is like Honey Badger, and many politicians.
hugs
Hops
--- End quote ---
I agree, Hopsie, and not in an 'anti man' way - I think that kind of masculine behaviour is just as damaging for those men who aren't like that (and yep, some women can be awful as well). But overall we'd have far fewer battles on so many fronts if people worked co-operatively. Saying that, I've no idea how it would ever be implemented on a national or global level. People here are panic buying again, stripping the shelves bare and it's so clearly unnecessary and incredibly stupid, but still they're doing it. The queue outside one shop in Essex was, apparently, 1300 feet long yesterday. We went in to town this morning for our acupuncture appointment and to go to the library. We can walk around the edge of town for both of those things so it's quiet, but you walk along the edge of one of the main car parks and it was rammed, with queues of cars waiting to get in and people with trolleys and arm fulls of bags. Every shop was rammed. All the big shops offer online delivery as standard and most of the small ones set up an order and delivery service that they've carried on running since March for people who can't get out, so there's no need for anyone to be shopping. But so many people are. It's crazy. The NHS has been set to its highest alert level which only happens when they expect to be overwhelmed. And people are worrying about shopping. It's just crazy.
Yes. Hard years to come. xx
Twoapenny:
Well the local numbers are finally starting to drop after many weeks of rising, which is good and I hope it stays that way. We've only got another week of this lockdown, though, so quite what will happen after this I don't know - other than we'll still be staying in. I will be very, very glad when this gets down to numbers no worse than (insert all the various illnesses that happen all the time anyway) and it just feels something like normal again.
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