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It has all gone belly up since the relaxation of lockdown was mooted.
1. Stupid levels of pressure for a plan from a media trying to fill papers and an opposition trying to make its mark on a government without a fully functioning leader due to illness
1/n
1. Stupid levels of pressure for a plan from a media trying to fill papers and an opposition trying to make its mark on a government without a fully functioning leader due to illness
1/n
2. Very badly handled launch of lockdown strategy. Leak and counter leak confusing messages and leading to some premature fraying of adherence. 2/n
3. Ludicrous reception of flawed lockdown easing strategy by parts of media and by left leaning social media, finding holes and lack of clarity and suggesting stupidity in a strategy that was much better than it was painted, and a Johnson speech ditto 3/n
4. Genuine fear and nervousness driving some of the criticism of lockdown easing with the zombie meme of herd immunity poisoning a discussion of a strategy clearly targeted at virus suppression. 4/n
5. Genuine failure by Government to have ducks in a row when reopening industry, plus communication failure, responded to by clear and sometimes deliberate misinterp of message by opposition politicians and left leaning social media, compounded by further gov miscommunication 5/n
6. Increasing gov falling back on reputation management tactics and obfuscation in response to fair and cheap pressure from opposition and media, with some of those tactics pushing light culture war on media who respond in kind
7. Cummings. Utterly mismanaged by gov who should have sacked, situation aggravated by media framing not fully supported by facts, and media and left leaning social media paranoia about a Svengali they can’t forgive for beating them through means sometimes nefarious 7/n
8. A Gov that won’t move on by sacking.
A media that won’t accept it’s lost this battle, and that winning the war can wait, but that along with left social media increasingly seems prep’d to use any tactics in failing to win.
A country that needs the discussion to move on 8/n
A media that won’t accept it’s lost this battle, and that winning the war can wait, but that along with left social media increasingly seems prep’d to use any tactics in failing to win.
A country that needs the discussion to move on 8/n
9. The result?
Social cohesion and clarity destroyed when they are a key weapon against Covid.
People entrenched in positions in which they won’t accept any criticism, partly because some of that criticism is vile.
Too much anger all round.
I’ve no solutions, sorry. 9/9
Social cohesion and clarity destroyed when they are a key weapon against Covid.
People entrenched in positions in which they won’t accept any criticism, partly because some of that criticism is vile.
Too much anger all round.
I’ve no solutions, sorry. 9/9
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