What are we doing?! Items of PPE, plastic masks, gloves and gowns are being found littering the countryside and perhaps worse, washing up on our shores. Initially there was a critical shortage of PPE to protect our crucial health workers. Now we seem to have plenty and the soiled and potentially contaminated used articles are being carelessly disposed off. On two fronts this defies comprehension. Firstly, the coronavirus can reportedly survive for up to seventy two hours on plastic and rubber; handle such detritus at your peril. Secondly, with all the news about the incredibly planet-harming effects of discarded plastic, how can we be so utterly stupid, ignorant, inconsiderate, and thoughtless to behave in this way?
Bojo and the Johnsonettes are now exhorting us all to send our children back to school for the sake of their mental and physical health and their future well-being. I am not saying this with the benefit of hindsight because I made this point at the time, but why on earth did we close the schools in the first place? Sweden didn’t and it appears their policy is now looking to have been very effective. As a father of young teenagers I need no persuading. These past few months have been a disaster for our children and seemingly most of their friends and fellow students too. At the risk of beating a tired drum, I can’t help thinking that our so called leaders have made a right horlicks of all this, but ultimately it’s not them who will pay the price, but our aforementioned offspring.
Britain did rule the waves when this was a land of hope and glory but it seems any patriotic celebration of our great and celebrated history is now deemed inappropriate by the BBC or Big Brother Corporation, who orchestrate the Promenade Concerts and specifically The Last Night. If a tap keeps dripping, it will eventually wear away even the hardest stone. Political Correctness and all its cousins are now so ingrained in our society I really do fear where we will be in ten or twenty years time. A Labour Councillor was talking on the radio today about how people in Birmingham are not obeying the Covid rules and he’s hopeful that the Government will now make the guidelines enforceable by the Police and Council officers. Without an Act of Parliament? Since when? Does Boris suddenly have Presidential powers to make Executive Orders? Slippery slopes indeed.
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