Very interesting Ian, thanks for sharing. The only points I would take issue with are your suggestions 1) that Johnson didn't want to 'cull the elderly and vulnerable'. Because subsequent comments during the Covid inquiry ('they've had a good innings" etc, that even if he didn't want that to happen, he preferred it to locking down. 2) that the government did the best it could in the circumstances. I didn't believe that then, and I certainly don't believe it now. Do you?
I don't disagree now, but I was more generous then.
I kept up a daily blogpost throughout the pandemic. I've often thought about going back into it to see what I wrote, but haven't worked up any enthusiasm. I'm sure I'd find plenty that would cause me to disagree with younger me, but I've let it stand.
Yes, I can understand that. I think many of us wanted to be generous then, in part, because we had to hope for the best from the government we were stuck with. And as for letting things stand, absolutely. The value of blog posts is the reaction you have at the time. We can't get in the habit of censoring ourselves because we don't like what we wrote or we now think we missed something out!
That spurred me to look at my own blog entry for the same day. FWIW, it's here: https://www.cosmicsurfer.co.uk/2020/03/15/
Very interesting Ian, thanks for sharing. The only points I would take issue with are your suggestions 1) that Johnson didn't want to 'cull the elderly and vulnerable'. Because subsequent comments during the Covid inquiry ('they've had a good innings" etc, that even if he didn't want that to happen, he preferred it to locking down. 2) that the government did the best it could in the circumstances. I didn't believe that then, and I certainly don't believe it now. Do you?
I don't disagree now, but I was more generous then.
I kept up a daily blogpost throughout the pandemic. I've often thought about going back into it to see what I wrote, but haven't worked up any enthusiasm. I'm sure I'd find plenty that would cause me to disagree with younger me, but I've let it stand.
Yes, I can understand that. I think many of us wanted to be generous then, in part, because we had to hope for the best from the government we were stuck with. And as for letting things stand, absolutely. The value of blog posts is the reaction you have at the time. We can't get in the habit of censoring ourselves because we don't like what we wrote or we now think we missed something out!