Second Wave

    Grandson has made a clever Tic Tok video with music, knocking Boris for restricting the households from meeting indoors, for putting restrictions on events, and now closing cafes, pubs, and restaurants. His family cannot visit the Grandparents every Sunday now for food and shared toddler/young kids minding. Doesn’t it seem so silly to him that a Prime Minister, so far away should be able to determine what families can and can’t do. And all for the sake of a silly virus, that despite some people explaining many times how dangerous they think it is, and the fact that large numbers of old people who came into contact with it in March April and May, actually died. But none of that matters, because he has also been told that it doesn’t affect young people, that it is like a flu which travels through the population every year taking quite large numbers with it. Quite a normal occurrence then! He was told it has gone away, in the summer and he’s tired of it being on the news all the time, and adults taking it all so seriously. You’ve got to live your life! Don’t just hideaway from life, he’s been told. The young are naturally optimistic!

   So he’s done a Tik Tok video slagging poor Boris Johnson off for trying to run the country, while steering the nation through the second wave of the virus. Everybody blames the government. It’s fashionable, it’s fun, its apparently clever. Everyone should have a go, with their half baked ideas, their lack of understanding or the perspective of underage.

    And I say, “What would you choose to do if you were running the country?” ‘That’s a good question,’ I thought. See if he has any real idea of what could be done to deal with the spread of the virus.

    So he replies, “End the restrictions, and let the households meet. Don’t cancel Christmas, and keep the shops open! These rules don’t make any sense, so why have them?”

    I am thinking, ‘But what about the number of people who would catch the virus if that happened? Many of them would need hospital treatment, and many would die. Others might get badly sick for quite a period, in some cases for a long period. We might well be seeing a health service which cannot cope, as ‘normal’ health appointments and treatments are once again put on hold.’

     I explode with sudden anger as I think of the consequences of letting 13 year olds run the government. The trouble is there are plenty of grown adults to be found who are saying the same sort of things. Herd Immunity is a serious concept for many. President Trump in America appears to be practicing it, or perhaps we should say, enabling it.