@MarshaBradyo
that we would all come together with our “blitz spirit” and look after each other. Apart from a bunch of people banging pots and pans in their garden, nothing could be further from the truth.
I really don’t get this. People made huge sacrifices and compliance was high.
Just the word 'sacrifice' sums up the problems. Says it all. Why the UK fucked up so very badly with Covid.
We currently have 100-200 people a day being killed by it. Many more (all ages) developing Long Covid. The Others. There's rather a lot of them.
The nonsensical idea that people 'sacificed'. As if ignoring a novel disease would work. A disease that is very possibly the result of a leak from a lab (that was doing bioweapon research).
No 'sacifices' - just ignoring reality - would have made the current shortages seem like utopia.
The UK response (unlike other countries) was never about protecting the vulnerable. They're The Others who were killed by it. Who are still being killed by it.
It was about trying to keep the country running.
Many might not die from Covid (at least, not straight away - afterall, we don't yet know to what extent long Covid, including potential organ damage), will affect people. But - lots can and do get ill enough to be out of action for several weeks. Sometimes longer.
I mean, come on. Sacrifice? People had tantrums over wearing a mask. Many other countries still have a mask mandate for public spaces - including schools and public transport.
Strangely enough the countries who valued life and who realised health is wealth, all have healthier economies than us. Who'd have thought that taking mitigation measures against a deadly novel potentially human modified in a lab disease would've aided the economy...