Okay. I take your points, which are decent and well intended.
My main point is that many right wing people are that way because they believe the best reaction to a problem is impatience. This orientation has the knock on effect of fostering a craving for simple âsolutionsâ to complex problems.
Vaccines were an imperfect but necessary response to a crisis. To me, anyone who keeps parroting the ânearly everyone should have been let get Covidâ line is a fool, dangerously so, and addicted to inanities. That scenario was never going to be allowed happen. Lads can batter on about Sweden and all the rest of it as much as they want. If their ambition is to be on the same level as Andrew Brigden, Mark Francois and Mattie McGrath, so be it. I have different ambitions, like all sensible pragmatic people.
You asked me to address an obscure article about Pzifer. By the same token, here are two points I have quite often raised that none of the kangos ever wished to address, because the implications of the twinned topics make them deeply uncomfortable:
1 What would have happened in 2020 if the (Irish) government had refused to introduce restrictions? Specifically, what would have happened if a substantial amount of people had imposed upon themself a de facto lockdown (which there are many cogent and credible reasons to believe the most likely ensuing scenario in early to mid 2020)? As I noted, 96% plus of Irish adults over the age of 18 subsequently took a Covid vaccine. The kangos, allowing for relucant vaccine takers, are therefore in minority of about 5%. If we infer that around 70% of Irish adults â probably more, I guess â would have opted for a self imposed lockdown, you would have been looking at a type of societal chaos for which the kangos possessed not even the scree of a credible solution. Impatience counts as virtue only in certain circumstances.
2 Faced with the publicâs self imposed restrictions, what could the (Irish) government have done? The plain reality is that the government, so as to keep businesses open, would have had to issue mandates compelling people to travel. The kangos, on their own account, would have backed such measures, leaving them not against government mandates per se but merely against particular mandates, such as a vaccine one. The word âhypocrisyâ flits into the air. Of course, this scenario, in which work travel was mandated, would have led to further and deeper chaos. Yet the kangos have no appetite for taking thought on such torturously complex issues. Which is why I can muster little or no respect for their maunderings, then and now.