I am by no means sure I am right on anything, just giving my opinion. It’s a topic I have great interest in, as it has massive impact on our futures and our children’s futures. It’s the most significant world event in our lifetimes, unless we have any survivors of WWII among us. How governments react to it in terms of the balance between health and impact on the economy is absolutely vital. I firmly believe they are bullshitting their way through it.
If we only listened to the doctors, then we would stay in lockdown until a vaccine is found which could be one year, two years, or never. The virus is not going away, so the argument to stay in lockdown is as valid now or in six months as it was last week. Politicians are afraid of their lives as they are now trapped by their own initial under reaction which led to unnecessary deaths, and then over reaction which is destroying the economy.
The most firm opinion I have in all this is it will go down as one of the biggest fuck ups in recent human history, and make 2008/09 look like a picnic in comparison. Time will tell.
Sure that was a massive reason. A good few teachers have said it. Now they get a chance to reward hard working students who wouldn’t have been able to do a tap of study given their home circumstances. Like every single thing in this there are pros and cons. It’s good craic taking a hardline position on a forum and ridiculing the decisions made but in reality nothing about this is black and white.
