Deaded by the 'vid.
Superbly, the Huffington Post has managed to report on this using a picture of leading scientist Lord Robert Winston.
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Don't. I'm already despairing of my short break away in Ludlow I've booked for next month.
I do struggle with the logic of seeing a rise in infections that was merely postponed by the last lockdown and concluding that the best way to deal with it is with another lockdown that can only postpone another rise in infections.
Well you know my attitude to the whole thing. It's entirely down to the arrogance and egocentricity of the majority of the population. "Oh noooos I might die that would be so terrible! I'd best hide behind the sofa!" (Cf peoiple who are 'afraid of flying') It's just selfishness.
We are a nation of repellant, self-absorbed egomaniacs and I hate each and every one of us.
Whatever happened to living a dayt as a lion rather than years as a lamb, ffs?
Well medical science has created average life expectancies of 80-fúck+ and we haven't had a proper war in ages, so the concept of suffering an early death seems even more egregious and unfair to people now than it ever has before.
Stoicism is borne of hardship and we in the west have lived in a condition of ease for a long, long time. Put simply, you can't create a society that minimises risk to an unprecedented degree and then expect everyone to happily accept and embrace risk.