The only trouble with letting the young’uns do as they list is, as you say, that while they then don’t themselves suffer all that much when they get cv19 (apart from the few who die of it), they become walking vectors for a disease which will kill their granny. And then they’ll be sorry…
And they’d have been in hock for the rest of their lives over Brexit in any case; Brexit is now going to get a free pass because it will all be blamed on covid.
I think we aall have been affected by the lockdown
So it will take time to assess all round damage to folks’s lives
I do think the yoof need to take part in building a society before they moan about how they are suffering from said society’s efforts to help the greatest part to survive a modern day plague
Yes, that is a knocking bet. And I fully understand your point about the killing of Grannies scenario.
If restrictions on youthful activity are too apparently punitive, the young will simply find other, more potentially lethal ways of letting off steam.
Just a collection of thoughts, really.
Soo xx
Since it took a looooong time for WWII to be paid for by us baby boomers perhaps it is a natural thing that our debts over our dealings with Europe are passed on to our childer
Wasn’t income tax developed as a means of paying for war with France?
And window tax and every other tax going have roots in Graddad’s wars no matter when we were living
Yes, most generations have to pay for the calamities of the recent past and taxation will certainly have a major part to play in this. As a boomer (I hate that word) I had some fairly golden and relatively care-free decades. We managed a mortgage, for example. The immediate post-war years had the advantage of progressive thinking amongst the politicians of the time, which I’m not seeing now. So many difficulties presently and for the future, but I do feel concern about inter-generational antipathy. Again - just thinking aloud.
Soo xx
The whole world is going to be paying for this for the next umpty years. Brexit will get a free pass as will selling our souls & the NHS to America.
Social Care was in crisis before, & is in shreds now. Everyone’s Mental Elf is under greater pressure, & that includes children & young people too. People’s ‘Normal’ might have been fairly crap before, & isn’t going to improve anytime soon.
Sigh
Every generation wants their children to have a better life than they did, but how far can ‘live now, pay later’ go?
Carinthia.xx
To be honest, I have no idea where all of the borrowings are coming from let alone how they’ll be repaid.
Soo xx
Most of which are likely to be self-destructive, rather than putting the innocent at risk. Yes, there are exceptions (joy-riding springs to mind) but there are laws already in place to tackle them. Viral spread is indiscriminate.
Indoor mass gatherings might appeal to some. I have splinters in me bum from sitting on the fence, joe.
Soo xx
I have them in me bumski & hands, Soo
I have been sent Photies of me Palast. The winter curtains have been drawn, & they have opened up the awning to air it.
No wasp nest either…
Carinthia.xx
What good friends keeping your palast gorgeous for you dear Chatelaine
As to mass gatherings indoors - the only time I do that is for ballet performances
I saw Darcey Bussell in Manon
I wept with joy all the way home
But as to paying for the current messes of Brexit and Corvid I think a LOT of Folk in High Places should be getting their accountancy programmes running and computers steaming with the workload
So that means polly tickle types getting back to their workplaces and working together not slinging mud at each other
Exactly. It doesn’t really matter whether the problems are blamed on covid or Brexit - the same eejits were responsible for both. Johnson missing five Cobra meetings which, given that there was a major crisis, he should have been chairing is inexcusable.
I’ll never forgive them.
Soo xx
I haven’t yet forgiven them for the horlicks in 2008-9, which put every adult in the country £2000 in debt at least…
Meanwhile, a forty-five mile drive from one side of London later, I saw perhaps twenty masks being worn on the way out, about ten on the way home again, and none at all on Clapham Common, where people were mingling freely and the words “distance? Woss vat ven?” were hovering in the air over the whole place.
My impression - one way only, natch - was that the majority on the Common were at a reasonable distance from one another - certainly the stationary groups.
Masks more prevalent in shopping than residential areas, but under 50% even there.
100% inside Soulless Chain Jewellers, mind.
Or so I hear.
Our county has had no new cases for 28 days which the authorities say means it is virus free
So the caravans are flocking to the beaches from the towns and other places where the infection is rife
Hard to bear, Twellsy.
Soo xx
Every one of them an appendix.
All I can suggest is staying put until they all feck off. You could try reasoning with them I suppose. All you need is a loudhailer and a flamethrower.
If you - plural you - aren’t planning on going inside said caravans or licking their occupants, isn’t the risk minimal?
Although a flamethrower would be fun, I do see.