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We could blame the people for spectacular breaches of the lockdown and the major health hazard they present.
Or we could see that when millions of people are doing the same thing, something systemic is going wrong. In this case, the government& #39;s disastrous, confusing messaging.
Or we could see that when millions of people are doing the same thing, something systemic is going wrong. In this case, the government& #39;s disastrous, confusing messaging.
The dithering, the reversals, the mixed messages, the double standards and above all the Cummings fiasco ensure that the government has disastrously lost control.
A second peak now looks inevitable.
A second peak now looks inevitable.
Johnson& #39;s government has treated the lockdown as if it were a matter of consumer choice. Their instinct is to treat everything this way. As we have seen with environmenal issues, it does not end well.
It reminds me of the 90% of policymakers who believe that “personal motivation” is “a strong or very strong influence on the rise of obesity.” As if millions of people had suddenly and simultaneously lost their willpower. Nothing to do with junk food, obvs https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30021-5/fulltext">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...
One of the characteristic traits of neoliberalism is blaming individual people for systemic failings.
