SIR GUESTLING THORN

You need more than Confused.com to work out what is going on with Covid? To say the situation is muddled would be a monumental understatement! It appears vaccinated or not, the spread of whichever variant, seems to be on our shores. We supposedly had one of the best rollouts of the vaccination programme, which continues but our daily rate of infection is the third worse in the world? What is going on? Rules, no rules, it seems there is no right or wrong when dealing with this unseen enemy. Science says it is too soon, Government says we must lift restrictions! Both are right but who the hell knows. As a man who believes in science I would go with their recommendations but I would need to do more research to understand and these days more than ever, whatever you read confuses you even more! It is no wonder that there are still so many that believe the vaccine is bad and particularly with the 18-25 age group many of whom seem to go with which ever info was the last posted or what their mates have told them. 

The virus is here to stay whatever we believe or do, it is not going away, ever. So we either live with it or the restrictions that are in place to supposedly to protect us. Humans being human will regardless of any rules or guidelines eventually revert to “normality” and no amount of legislation or restrictions will prevent it. Generally we all have a threshold after which no amount of rules will prevent us from continuing to live our lives. Most of us are responsible and would never wish to endanger others or ourselves but we also understand the risks and there comes a time when we have to accept that living with that risk is the only way forward. I understand that we need to protect an already overburdened NHS and we cannot have a situation as happened at the start of this crisis. While we are on the NHS, have you noticed how already all that heroic rhetoric has disappeared as the “pressure” has dropped so much for dedication and exhaustive hours! No real pay increase and yet we know that the strain has not lessoned and the staff are still working under huge pressure as indeed they were even before the pandemic! This government, promise everything, deliver nothing and blame any one else! There is no room in the Johnsons right wing nationalist party for any Tories with a more moderate view. Boris is a amoral bullshitter ho can’t keep track of his lies and he is attacking the justice system to weaken an ability to hold them to account. He has crossed the line and we the public no longer have access to any route of holding them to account! I have been shouting this since even before Boris became leader of the Conservatives and sometimes (all the time) I feel like I am shouting into the wind but hey its your vote and you do what you want but don’t say I never warned you!

Stay well