Let’s all get over the idea that those who disagree with us on major issues are wrong about everything and moreover when we appear to agree they have some deep evil plan afoot. The lockdown has brought this thinking out in many usually quite sensible people. Of course the government and politicians generally are a nest of vipers that we have thrust on our collective bosom but they may have been right and the proof of it is the vastly improved readiness which will enable a staged and prudent return to normality. We are getting to that point. Patience is required. However John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty have brought a case before the High Court on the unconstitutionality of the actions taken by an interim government.
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We are at the stage common to P.R. systems in Europe of coalition talks after a numerically indecisive general election. Waters is a man for whom I have a great deal of respect and is not a knee jerk contrarian though the media may portray him as such. I believe he has taken a wrong turn here. O’Doherty is a anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, yes, a flake probably.
Now that readiness has been established, as much as it ever can be, we need to focus on return to a parlous normal lest sheltering in place becomes cowering in place.
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It seems that, outside of nursing homes, containment in Ireland has been quite effective, far more so than the US or the UK. And readiness besides -- over here it's likely to be fire, aim, ready.
We are being drip fed snippets of information about emergence from lockdown as though the authorities were testing compliance. Is Grass cutting a non essential service that will be among the first let free and so on. It will be a job for a scythe and the spectre of a man with a scythe in your front garden may be a chilling one for the frail.
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