Covid-19 and the madness of crowds

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Yes, they have.

Yes, it is.

Yes, it does.

The biggest political row at large now is an injunction by our glorious government (health in Wales is a devolved matter, so Boris and his chums in Whitehall have little say, as in Scotland & NI) that supermarkets should not sell non-essential goods, because smaller retailers have been instructed to close, so there would be an unfair advantage for the likes of Tesco. Naturally, when you have that level of micromanagement, there are endless debates and rows about what, precisely, constitutes essential and non-essential, and it is descending into a hilarious farce. Besides which, if you really need that non-essential baby grow, you can still get it from those nice people at Amazon, because online shopping and delivery are not covered by the retail closure rules.

I might add that it is, in fact, only a little over a week ago that our glorious First Minister, Mark Drakeford, was explaining to the media and public that it would be an unfair thing to inflict stricter controls on areas such as mine in Wales which have barely any Covid cases as compared with Cardiff and etc. What changed his mind? Well, the call in England by the leader of the opposition, Sir Keir Starmer (they are in the same party, The Labour Party), to Boris and chums to inflict this type of lockdown across England, rather than a regional approach. Boris refused. Thus, we have more politics going on here than “following the science”.

In addition, I might add that Boris’s claims to be taking a localised approach is also rather disingenuous. What the tier system in England is, in fact, a centrally directed instruction to local authorities to close down or restrict movements and freedoms, a rather different thing, of course.