Exactly. The core problem is the political power of the retired in our system to vote to distribute the tax receipts of people of working age to fund public spending, so that they don't have to.… (View Post)

Summary: the case spike is real, but most of it is caused by obsessive testing of near-invulnerable schoolchildren. Deaths are almost stable, and to the extent that there's any discernible risin… (View Post)

Probably. It would shred what's left of the reputation of the Government, and the country can't afford to bear the cost of it. I also think that the panic over more Covid waves is being ser… (View Post)

The Government has tied itself up in knots unnecessarily over the dreaded masks. There are legitimate reasons for resisting the normalisation of their use, which is what is effectively being proposed… (View Post)

My understanding continues to be that the main problem with seriously ill Covid patients is with vaccine refusers (apparently the typical fully vaccinated person who's unlucky enough to die of t… (View Post)