>> Conspiracy theories, anyone?
Up to a point. In a way the biggest compliment you can pay BBC News is that it is boring much of the time. The way to sex up news is basically to lie.
That said, I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find there is a lobby within the NHS for tight disease control measures to keep the population safe, particularly as it would also save money in the NHS and allow it to treat all our other ailments. But the responsibility for those decisions does not rest with the NHS.
Much as I despise the government of the day, government must be the ultimate decision maker in respect of COVID policy. Undoubtedly all of the relevant technical skills and knowledge reside elsewhere but the final judgements that balance control of the disease with the lives people want to lead cannot be made by (for example) the NHS.
The priorities of the NHS, its CEO, the Chief Medical Officers et al are all around disease control and treatment, but that is not all we exist for. If I’m lucky I will have another decade or so of active life and I don’t want to spend it under control measures that limit opportunities for social interaction, travel and ’living’.
We don't need technically clever or even learned politicians. Intelligent obviously, but we need the ones with good judgement, and good hearts focused on the commonweal. Measure our elected representatives on all sides of the house on those dimensions and IMO many fall very short.
What we need re COVID is to find the right equilibrium, supported by vaccines and sensible infection control in places like hospitals and care homes, in which it is realistic for people to make their own decisions about how much they are prepared to sacrifice to dodge COVID. Thus far that equilibrium has not been easy to find, and we have oscillated between lockdown and varying degrees of freedom. That should get easier to manage as population immunity rises.
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 15 Jun 21 at 02:47
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