Diary 267

Thursday, December 10th

Vaccinations are still a few days away in the US. In England there has been push-back from various doctors who say they won’t be part of it (according to the Guardian). Of course, England has other problems to face, also, particularly those that will start to pile up after it leaves the EU on December 31st.

What I notice is that there seems to be a sense that ‘this will all be over soon’ now that vaccines are becoming available – and there seem to be several to choose from. I doubt that anything will be over soon. Things don’t tend to work that way, and this is not a switch that can simply be turned off. I recall the old World War One slogan: “It’ll all be over by Christmas.” That didn’t quite work out, did it?

In the US there has been a sudden, pre-Christmas rush to execute inmates on death row.  Why would an outgoing ‘president’ choose such a strange way to mark his last few days? Why would any human being do that?