#IdeaPlus

However, in order not to
end this article on a sour
note, I’m going to
misappropriate the
classic Spaghetti Western
title as ‘The Bad, the Ugly
and the Good’, leaving
the positive things I’ve
observed until the end.
The Bad Brexit: The timing
of this couldn’t have
been worse for us as let’s
face it, Britain has been
on the ropes for a while,
as our protracted Brexit
has cost us billions with
no real movement
alongside our insistence
on reelecting a
government hell-bent on
dismantling our NHS. The
upshot of this is that a
once powerful empire
has been left in an
enfeebled state.
Debate about Death:
Mirroring the American
sentiment (as we want to
do), many questioned if
it was more worthwhile
to just accept the death
of millions of vulnerable
citizens rather than
collapsing the economy.
I want to believe that
people only advocated
this out of fear rather
than antipathy towards
our elderly and sick,
even though the
numbers show that
population reduction
actually harms
economic growth. But
now that we’ve had a
number of younger
If there’s one
thing we excel
at, it’s passiveaggressiveness,
and
two very British
types of
behaviour have
been pushed to
the extreme in
this lockdown
environment.
people dying, that selfcentered
idea is being
mentioned less often;
now everyone is at risk,
we’re starting to see
sense.
Mental Stresses:
However, in any idea (no
matter how abhorrent),
there are usually kernels
of truth. In the first couple
of weeks, several wholefamily
murder suicides
were reported, domestic
violence increased by 25
per cent and as we were
slow to announce our
protection for the self
employed and small
businesses, many
businesses were forced
to close. But, despite our
infection-rate and death
projections around
Coronavirus, we have
not been furnished with
projections around the
other damages we
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