Five days into the new year and we're already in lockdown... again! The mix is as before: don't leave home, and protect the NHS. And there's me naïvely thinking the NHS was supposed to be protecting us! Hollow promises from our illustrious PM, just as before: when was it? ... last March, if I remember right. And as before, he doesn't know how long it's going to last for. So over the course of the last nine months, he's learned precious little, attempting to combat a virus seemingly intent on outsmarting him at every turn. Pinning your hopes on a vaccination programme as the panacea cure for this is all very well, but if you don't know and can't say how long it's actually going to take to vaccinate everybody it's hardly either reassuring or convincing.
And yet again, the schools have been ordered to close. Despite the heavy fines levied in the past by councils against parents daring to take their children out on holiday during term-time without permission, on the grounds of the lasting harm the disruption causes to their education? And that's only, in most cases, ten days max. Some poor kids have had next to no proper schooling for the thick end of a whole year now.
And don't get me started on the lies, damned lies and statistics theme!
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