You can fly an airplane into the ground with well intentioned overcontrol. How do you know if you'rer doing this?
Following the principle of "whatever can't continue won't" the inference is that an unsustainable lockdown will inevitably create a crisis of authority as people who can't, wont. Within the corona crisis is an economic and political time bomb that is already ticking.
The lockdown has the potential to become the trench war stalemate of the experts and the media. Brass bands played at the beginning but as things stagnate there will finally be only mud and bitter poetry.
As they used to say "it could become their Vietnam".
As they used to say "it could become their Vietnam".
But just because it sucks on the Western Front doesn't mean there's an alternative to sitting in the mud or going over the top to face the fire of the virus. Maybe there's no alternative to waiting for the vaccine tank to be invented.
All options could be bad.
All options could be bad.
