- Re: yes. Archived Message
Posted by Sinister Burt
on May 17, 2020, 1:33 pm, in reply to "Re: yes."
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There is a tendency to believe their incompetence, but also one to overestimate their competence too (4d chess etc). Yes herd cull is what i take to be meant by 'herd immunity' (though most of their usual policies could be honsetly described in similar malthusian terms). I think overall collapse of the nhs is probably fine with them as a way to facilitae it's destruction/sell-off, and was probably designed in to their response - i've already seen them talking about how they can use this crisis to split up and reorganise the nhs (posted here before). If they can make it collapse, or blame it somehow for the deaths, it might make it easier to convince the public to let them 'reform' it (like they were going to anyway). This is separate to the public-facing appearance of NHS collapse by overwhelming, people dying in corridors etc, like we were warned of by italy - this became too politically damaging to contemplate, hence why they panicked and gave in to lockdown (but really just shoved loads of old people from hospital into care homes without testing, and made loads of others sign DNRs)- so yes they changed how they attacked the problem, but never lost sight of the cull/default malthusian tory attitude. |