Here is my take, FWIW. My contribution is not political, I think. I hope it does not feel like a rant because it is not so intended. I am a practical, so you are not going to read any intellectual argument from me and this may not add up to a row of beans. It is just MHO. I am not aiming at anyone.
What I see is a situation where thousands of people are dying of the same thing - the world over. What ever 'thing' is, whatever you call it. Hospitals are at least under pressure. These thousands may or may not have had underlying health issues. If they did, that does not mean that they were going to die anyway [soonish, as it were]. As to the statistics, it was long ago established that there are 'lies, damned lies and statistics'. None-the-less, the gist of what is happening may be discerned, whatever the subject and numbers. By the way, I believe the 'bug' is SARS Cov2, the disease being Covid-19. But I am probably wrong.
Truth? What exactly is truth? Whose truth? (Debate) Can we even agree what happened yesterday? Or: the holocaust never happened; or 9/11 was not what you think. Yeah, right. And so the intellectuals debate on.... because they can. Good for them, as long as they do not mess it up for everyone else. I am reminded, for example, that our legal system is based on intellectuals trying to convince certain people that what actually happened did not actually happen, or that what actually did happen, actually did not. So much for truth. I do take comfort (maybe I have to!) from the intellectuals who are trying to get a grip of 'it' on our behalf - I want them to. And I am tempted to be grateful that I can perceive that the scientists rather than politicians appear to be leading in this country (is it really so?).
I hope this is not too political a statement (more constitutional), but, all government is about controlling the masses. Full stop, "!"Â The international, uniform (almost) response to 'it' is a wonder - like it or not - but perhaps we should not be surprised by it. But this 'thing' and our response to it is a terrifying, swinging wrecking ball the way it is proceeding - for almost everyone.
As an oldie I am best protected by staying in. But that means someone younger running around after me. My young music teacher's flatmate, another youngster, has it. 'It' does not discriminate. I do hope, though, that the youngsters will be allowed out before too long, gradually to dissolve this so strange world.
Oh yes, "Unless There Is Another Reason" why they want us all to be at home...... (there you go, toddyboy, your next book...)
Robbo
PSÂ Â My great grandfather, his son and his brother all died within 3 weeks of each other in 1919. My grandfather survived. They all worked together - without social distancing, then, in Spanish Flu time.
What I see is a situation where thousands of people are dying of the same thing - the world over. What ever 'thing' is, whatever you call it. Hospitals are at least under pressure. These thousands may or may not have had underlying health issues. If they did, that does not mean that they were going to die anyway [soonish, as it were]. As to the statistics, it was long ago established that there are 'lies, damned lies and statistics'. None-the-less, the gist of what is happening may be discerned, whatever the subject and numbers. By the way, I believe the 'bug' is SARS Cov2, the disease being Covid-19. But I am probably wrong.
Truth? What exactly is truth? Whose truth? (Debate) Can we even agree what happened yesterday? Or: the holocaust never happened; or 9/11 was not what you think. Yeah, right. And so the intellectuals debate on.... because they can. Good for them, as long as they do not mess it up for everyone else. I am reminded, for example, that our legal system is based on intellectuals trying to convince certain people that what actually happened did not actually happen, or that what actually did happen, actually did not. So much for truth. I do take comfort (maybe I have to!) from the intellectuals who are trying to get a grip of 'it' on our behalf - I want them to. And I am tempted to be grateful that I can perceive that the scientists rather than politicians appear to be leading in this country (is it really so?).
I hope this is not too political a statement (more constitutional), but, all government is about controlling the masses. Full stop, "!"Â The international, uniform (almost) response to 'it' is a wonder - like it or not - but perhaps we should not be surprised by it. But this 'thing' and our response to it is a terrifying, swinging wrecking ball the way it is proceeding - for almost everyone.
As an oldie I am best protected by staying in. But that means someone younger running around after me. My young music teacher's flatmate, another youngster, has it. 'It' does not discriminate. I do hope, though, that the youngsters will be allowed out before too long, gradually to dissolve this so strange world.
Oh yes, "Unless There Is Another Reason" why they want us all to be at home...... (there you go, toddyboy, your next book...)
Robbo
PSÂ Â My great grandfather, his son and his brother all died within 3 weeks of each other in 1919. My grandfather survived. They all worked together - without social distancing, then, in Spanish Flu time.
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