This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday 5 July 2021
'Doomsters' or Cassandras?
The new UK Health Minister claims that the 'best way to protect the nation's health' is to lift all the Covid19 restrictions. He opines that the restrictions have increased domestic abuse and worsened mental health. This might well be true but it's only a part of the picture. Members of the UK's SAGE subcommittee on behavioural science think, however, he is back to treating Covid19 like influenza. They say that making safe-guarding a matter of personal choice will be like 'building variant factories' at a fast rate (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/04/uk-scientists-caution-that-lifting-of-covid-rules-is-like-building-variant-factories). The SAGE folk are likely to be treated as 'doomsters' (folk regarded as insufficiently optimistic about the future). Sadly, they are likely to end up as Cassandras, emulating the mythological Greek prophetess, whose pronouncements were never believed. Nothing is going to get in the way of 'freedom day'!
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Garden plants in France, The Netherlands, The UK and Sikkim (NE India).
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