joeyjojo wrote: Why did they open all those nightingale hospitals if they knew they didn’t have staff to work in them?
It’s no secret there’s huge staffing issues at the NHS for years especially with nurses so why bother opening the hospitals ??? Was it just a media stunt to show they can open hospitals quickly? But now it looks fuckinf stupid and another huge waste by the government. Same with this track and trace or whatever it’s called they’ve spunked 70 million on with no results ??? Is there genuinely no oversight in the government? As soon as you get to a position you can make huge decisions based on massive amounts of money with no ramifications if they end up being shit?????
They knew all of this, but they opened them as a PR stunt to make it look like they were taking it seriously (after having fucked it with their delayed response, Bo Jo being on holiday and missing the initial meeting, etc) and they wanted to be seen as doing something on a large scale to tackle Covid, when in fact it was always going to be an inadequate response and fail. That sort of sums up Bo Jo's government, imo.
The worrying thing is that people don't care - and the Conservatives will remain in power for some years to come - mainly because the majority of the general public don't tend to directly feel the consequences of the recklessness, or they don't think so and aren't actually aware of it. I believe there is Stockholm syndrome on quite a scale in this country now, which is massive aided by the right-wing bias of our media. In fact you look at voting history and how many times the Conseratives have won, perhaps it's not such a new thing. The art of Conservative politics is very impressive though and as a result, we are now in the position where people actually think there's a left-wing media bias and our freedom of speech is being threatened…Mental, it's actually mental.
In the latest Adam Curtis series, he mentions the idea of self-individualisation (I think that's it…) and once you understand the severity of it and throw in the effects of capitalism over the last few decades, it's no wonder there's an overwhelming lack empathy in this country.