I see we’ve gone beyond “don’t politicise political decisions made by politicians” and are now into “the bloody media should stop reporting things that might make people angry at what’s gone on here”.
So we don’t talk about things now because it’s unhelpful during a crisis, we don’t talk about it afterwards because instead of dwelling on the past we should move on, and if we talk about how unprepared we are before something actually happens it’s a sign of hysteria.
If someone could lay out the rules of when we can talk about this, and when we can discuss the fact that while you can never be perfectly prepared for a pandemic you can certainly be vastly better prepared to cope than we were, not to mention make far better and quicker decisions to prevent something you know for a fact is coming, that would be great. Because at present all I’m hearing is “don’t ever make government policy responsible for any events that occur as a direct result of those calls, and don’t talk about it before, during or after any problems reveal themselves.”
As for the bright spark who wants to talk about genocide, the word literally means “the deliberate killing of a large group of people.” Which if (IF IF IF IF IF) we were still pursuing herd immunity on the sly is exactly what would be happening.
Read a f*****g dictionary.
