- Re: yes. Archived Message
Posted by dereklane
on May 17, 2020, 10:03 pm, in reply to "Re: yes."
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It's an interesting question (your last line). The first step to me is easing people's reaction to the suggestion that lockdown (in its current guise) is no answer at all. Somehow people need to get out of the rut they're in (both circumstantially and with the thinking that anyone who contests the idea of lockdown as in our favour is hitler incarnate). That sort of thing was near impossible before, now, with everyone suffering from cabin fever, I know for me personally I won't be bringing up my thoughts with anyone else because I'm too desperate for the scant interaction I have with others to make any exchange less than positive. ATM were all hamsters on a wheel, it seems.. But really best place for change in process has to come from nhs staff, publicly. As if they didn't have enough on their plates already. Just that presently they hold authority, more than anyone else in the general public's eye. If enough go on record, protest, shout, and get media attention saying the lockdown isn't the answer but these things are, govt might be forced to back down on one and step up on the other. Anyone else trying will just get shouted down; groupthink is rife ATM and people are I think scared to be thinking anything that isn't within the mainstream consciousness. I get the feeling though that there is an informational lockdown within the nhs right now too, probably a lot of Nda clauses etc and punitive measures about talking to the media. Which would mean further potential sacrifice for those already on the front line. But honestly, who is going to listen to the likes of me? Brits I feel are very authority led at the best of times; there's an innate trust in authority that was at least lacking in oz in my formative years (it was quite the opposite! ), and the potential door in to that is at least on the surface the govt has been plugging the nhs workers as heroes, therefore they are the authority. I don't know what you could do with that information, but something in the realm of a group letter with thousands of signatories published in a national paper wouldn't go astray as a starting point. I see no reason why strategies such as you suggest couldn't be implemented tomorrow with the existing infrastructure of local gp surgeries, local hospital facilities, commandeered community centres etc (via local councils, which are still taking my money even though half the services are shut). It would be a decent use of public money at the very least. |