On being underwhelmed
Our lot are in full panic mode again.
All the talk is about omicron, omicron and more fucking omicron.
To listen to them you would imagine we are surrounded by the hoards of barbarians all bashing at the walls and gates trying to get in.
They are now talking about closing pubs at five in the afternoon. Right! So we are all supposed to get our drinking done in the afternoon instead of the evening? Is omicron known to be an evening binger? I thought one of the big sources of infection was in schools, but we’re not going to close them at all at all. No chance.
Lash money out to the schools so they can install some air testing yoke. Tell ’em all to keep their windows open [winter has arrived, by the way]. Tell the infants to wear masks. Tell all doctors to ignore their patients and concentrate on giving boosters. Boosters, boosters, we all have to get boosters.
All of this incidentally is to prevent the HSE from being “overwhelmed” which is another favourite word doing the rounds. Well, I’ll let them into a little secret – the HSE is overwhelmed every fucking year for as far back as I can remember. Year after year we hear of the hundreds sleeping on trolleys waiting for beds. Every year we hear of some eighty or ninety year old who had to spend three nights on a trolley in a hospital corridor until they finally expired before a doctor could see them of before they could get a bed. Every year they plead with us to visit our doctor first before heading to a hospital [except that this year your doctor can’t see you because he’s too busy with the boosters]. Every fucking year it’s the same. So why should this year be any different?
Because now they can blame it on omicron.
You see, if we “beat” omicron, this year will be different. Suddenly the hospitals will be empty and the “front line” staff can take a well earned break. All it takes is for us to abstain from an evening pint, not go to a football match and only invite six into our homes instead of seven. Simples.
Why am I so underwhelmed?
Somebody gave you one star! 🙁 I’ve done my bit to try to correct this injustice.
As for hoards of barbarians, I’ve already got my hoard of toilet paper and hand gel, are we supposed to hoard barbarians now? Do they stock them at Tesco? 😀
My garage is only just so big. I’m not sure I could fit more than three or maybe four in there. And then there’s the aroma; the neighbors are not that tolerant.
I’m (almost) glad to see that the UK isn’t the only Health Service with a country attached
If the PTB really believed this shite, the Florence, or Nightingale ward’s would be reopening.
Unless they flogged all the kit off cheap to somebody’s wife’s brother.
I am sure it could all be bought back again at a reasonable price.
Meanwhile in Shropshire Boris lost. Wonder why?
“Meanwhile in Shropshire Boris lost. Wonder why?” I heard him give an explanation but couldn’t understand a single word. I don’t think he could either.
The WHO has declared that anyone with the OmiCON even if run over by a train is put down to having died of OmiCON.
This has been going on the states for years but the evil tobacco weed was the doer of harm. Doctors were advised a decade or two ago that if no other cause of death could be determined, but the deceased was ever related to or associated with a smoker to show “Tobacco Related” as cause of death.
I’m past being underwhelmed, I’m well into the angry phase.
I’m past angry. I just ignore them now. It’s much easier on the sanity.
The HSE is the single most incompetent and self-serving body I have encountered. It seems extraordinary that they are allowed to conduct their own press conferences and to tell people what to do.
Every now and then they interview someone from the HSE. Every time it’s the head of yet another department or section I have never heard of. They seem to have a department for every single contingency. Talk about too many chiefs!
What is the problem?
If vaccines work, you are safe from Covid.
If vaccines don’t work then they make no difference.
If vaccines partially work so Covid can still be spread what then?
If vaccines strengthen immune systems against Covid then they also strengthen against any individual who is incubating Covid.
There you go, trying to apply common sense to a situation where government is involved.
I think the Vogons are in charge and they’ve just had (yet another) unhappy love affair.
Seriously, the constant hammering of the pubs and bars must be coming from those who thought prohibition was a truly fabulous idea and they want to give it another go.
I’m constantly amazed at how clever and versatile SARS/COV-2 is though. It only infects people after 5pm? Must be the first time sensitive virus ever.
It’s even cleverer, it could affect kids on the school-bus and in the corridors but not in the classrooms. It could also affect someone visiting a dying relative in a care-home but apparently not at a Downing Street Christmas Party. Amazing.