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Will new health secretary Sajid Javid grab Covid 19 by the variants and get us all back to normal in July?
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no i really dont get it. i get that he has been criticized fpr breaking the rules he helped implement, and that's as it should be - he's a hypocritical idiot. What i don't get is how one can simultaneously hold the same attitude that "he is breaking "the rules" so i should too" when the first thng involves you thinking that "the rules" are important and shouldnt be broken, whereas the second thing involves you thinking they are not important and can be broken because "he did it first"
//…whereas the second thing involves you thinking they are not important and can be broken because "he did it first"//
It’s not because he did it first, bednobs. It’s because he saw fit to do it at all.
The government has had huge credibility problems with many of the measures it has introduced. That has not been helped by the many exceptions that have been made for what were, quite frankly, ridiculous reasons. Yes, there has to be exceptions so that we can all remain alive - that’s why shops selling “essential” supplies were allowed to remain open. But there have been many others which the public has found very hard to swallow. Most significant is the ridiculous G7 jamboree. It involved around eleven thousand people in total gathering in a small corner of Cornwall. Such meetings are never essential. They are rarely productive and this particular episode should not have been held at all, let alone held where it was. But it allowed politicians to strut their stuff on the world stage. The fact that it resulted in a major Covid outbreak (which politicians blamed on tourists rather than the jamboree) seemed to be of no consequence. Yet a few weeks earlier we saw images of HM the Queen sitting alone, wearing a muzzle at the funeral of her husband of more than seventy years – scenes that were repeated all over the country for ordinary folk.
If these restrictions were so vital to combatting the pandemic then politicians would not make so many exceptions for non-essential activities. Add on to this the performance of Mr Hancock, who actually devised the measures and it is clear that there is no justification for them if they can be breached by exception so readily. If the remaining measures are not lifted on 19th July I think the government is going to have huge problems with compliance as far as individuals are concerned. Yes, they will still be able to control what businesses do, but many people will finally accept that there is no valid reason for their continuance and compliance will slip considerably. Mr Hancock’s shenanigans will have played a huge part in that.
It’s not because he did it first, bednobs. It’s because he saw fit to do it at all.
The government has had huge credibility problems with many of the measures it has introduced. That has not been helped by the many exceptions that have been made for what were, quite frankly, ridiculous reasons. Yes, there has to be exceptions so that we can all remain alive - that’s why shops selling “essential” supplies were allowed to remain open. But there have been many others which the public has found very hard to swallow. Most significant is the ridiculous G7 jamboree. It involved around eleven thousand people in total gathering in a small corner of Cornwall. Such meetings are never essential. They are rarely productive and this particular episode should not have been held at all, let alone held where it was. But it allowed politicians to strut their stuff on the world stage. The fact that it resulted in a major Covid outbreak (which politicians blamed on tourists rather than the jamboree) seemed to be of no consequence. Yet a few weeks earlier we saw images of HM the Queen sitting alone, wearing a muzzle at the funeral of her husband of more than seventy years – scenes that were repeated all over the country for ordinary folk.
If these restrictions were so vital to combatting the pandemic then politicians would not make so many exceptions for non-essential activities. Add on to this the performance of Mr Hancock, who actually devised the measures and it is clear that there is no justification for them if they can be breached by exception so readily. If the remaining measures are not lifted on 19th July I think the government is going to have huge problems with compliance as far as individuals are concerned. Yes, they will still be able to control what businesses do, but many people will finally accept that there is no valid reason for their continuance and compliance will slip considerably. Mr Hancock’s shenanigans will have played a huge part in that.
There's only one reason in my book that the restrictions are continuing, and its nothing to do with deaths or hospital admissions, although the latter we were told would be the key to the door, many times, and many times the key has been hidden.
Rightly or wrongly, you really do have a government dictating, by using the 19th has, either get the vaccine, if you haven't had it or we lose the key again. We have the words, should, could, no reason AT the moment finding there way into speeches yet again.
Rightly or wrongly, you really do have a government dictating, by using the 19th has, either get the vaccine, if you haven't had it or we lose the key again. We have the words, should, could, no reason AT the moment finding there way into speeches yet again.
Not that travel abroad bothers me, but it does some, especially if its to do with seeing family. The object at the moment is to make it as difficult as possible to go abroad, or more or less impossible to plan one for the coming weeks, for the customer and the agents.
The longer this traffic light system is in operation the more the summer ticks by, and the more people will try and book staycations, the latter is what government want, a boost for the home economy. If the government were concerned about the travel companies/ airlines they would be supporting them, they are not.
If there's a traffic light system in operation then the government can't be accused of stopping people going on holiday, (to a point) anyhow, but with added expense that many won't be able to afford. And we all know even the green light can end in disaster.
The longer this traffic light system is in operation the more the summer ticks by, and the more people will try and book staycations, the latter is what government want, a boost for the home economy. If the government were concerned about the travel companies/ airlines they would be supporting them, they are not.
If there's a traffic light system in operation then the government can't be accused of stopping people going on holiday, (to a point) anyhow, but with added expense that many won't be able to afford. And we all know even the green light can end in disaster.
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