22-10-2020, 17:03
Do you remember when economists used to lump expanding economies together and give them an acronym, like BRIC, Brazil, Russia, India and China was it?
Perhaps we can do something similar in regard to responses to Covid? I'm suggesting BUSUKI.
Brazil, United States, UK and India, drawn together by unfathomably motivated elected Populist leaders, whose governmental responses to the virus are resulting in the highest death rates.
Our own legally blond government is having either to borrow, or print more money than almost anywhere else, in order to deny health care to a population whose numbers might overwhelm available provision. Huge swathes of the country shut down whilst people huddle together at home relying on routine hygiene and toilet rolls as some kind of solution, to what? they don't quite know.
The average age of those dying from Covid is 82 and average life expectancy is 81. The old and unfit are dying, so universities are cancelling all lectures and everyone is wondering about special arrangements for Christmas. Roast the old and visit a demented turkey?
How many times will Santa have to sanitise his hands on Christmas Eve, and if he opts for mittens how many pairs will he need, and has the government made any special PPE provision for him?
What if there is no effective vaccine? What if Covid never does simply fade into the background like other viruses? Do we just continue inventing employment that used to exist and building HS2 to transport us even quicker to places we aren't allowed to go? And when we need to be prevented from doing things, who will prevent us and why would they bother? What will they have to gain, once money has become promises on which payment is never redeemed?
Perhaps we can do something similar in regard to responses to Covid? I'm suggesting BUSUKI.
Brazil, United States, UK and India, drawn together by unfathomably motivated elected Populist leaders, whose governmental responses to the virus are resulting in the highest death rates.
Our own legally blond government is having either to borrow, or print more money than almost anywhere else, in order to deny health care to a population whose numbers might overwhelm available provision. Huge swathes of the country shut down whilst people huddle together at home relying on routine hygiene and toilet rolls as some kind of solution, to what? they don't quite know.
The average age of those dying from Covid is 82 and average life expectancy is 81. The old and unfit are dying, so universities are cancelling all lectures and everyone is wondering about special arrangements for Christmas. Roast the old and visit a demented turkey?
How many times will Santa have to sanitise his hands on Christmas Eve, and if he opts for mittens how many pairs will he need, and has the government made any special PPE provision for him?
What if there is no effective vaccine? What if Covid never does simply fade into the background like other viruses? Do we just continue inventing employment that used to exist and building HS2 to transport us even quicker to places we aren't allowed to go? And when we need to be prevented from doing things, who will prevent us and why would they bother? What will they have to gain, once money has become promises on which payment is never redeemed?