The public gets what the public wants
The article has an illustration by Nathalie Lees where we can see a clown, with clear features of the Prime Minister, balancing on a huge viroid ball in the middle of a cemetery. I reckon it´s an image that perfectly synthesizes what many of us think about Boris Johson.
Our
columnist, John Harris, has interviewed many people and most of them believe
that the government is doing the best it can because the virus is something
completely new and nobody expected it. How can you think like this? There is a
simple, classic answer I would say. A heroic failure to the English does not
cause us shame, this is historically so.
Mr
Harris writes that as the public is used to improvisations and mistakes 'the
pantomime carries on', and that when the recently dishevelled politician hosts
press briefings,
people are already predisposed to nod and swallow what
they say.
It´s
true that the public — I´m not saying the people, the citizens — get tired of
so much confinement and that´s why the pubs reopen after a while and parties
such as Christmas are untouchable and therefore it´s necessary to celebrate it properly...
It´s true that they have done it in many places, here where I live, in the neighbouring
country...
«The disaster, it seems, belongs to us: it not that Johnson and his
colleagues have screwed up, but that the whole country proved unequal to what
the virus demanded…»
Happy
Monday was eagerly awaited after the first confinement and the last celebrations
of the year are showing what everyone knew: an increase in infections and
deaths, but if that was what the public wanted, the show must continue!
In my opinion, the alleged herd immunity that the carefully disheveled wanted to achieve at the beginning of the pandemic, extended in time, is being achieved with the sense of duty of the majority of British people, the arrival of the vaccine, the method of Government ASD (Allowable Stresses Design) and the over 100,000 slaughtered we have already recorded.
From my Borstal.
LDR
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