Selective Learning

Unconstrained as always by the need for tough decisions and economic growth, mere scientists have commemorated the fifth anniversary of the National Johnson's first grudging attempt to protect the plebs from Covid by complaining that lessons have not been learned. Yet they themselves admit that the hated NHS is likely to be in a better position to let the bodies pile high when the next pandemic strikes, and that no more interest has been taken in the psychological and social consequences of lockdown than is routinely taken of the psychological and social consequences of such bipartisan policy stalwarts as poverty, educational attrition, wog-baiting and cripple-kicking. There are even people who seem to think that the death rate among expendables during the plague provides some sort of justification for watering down Team Starmer's current assault on the disabled; which demonstrates once more that those who derive the wrong lessons from the past are doomed to be surprised at the inevitable refresher course.