ALTOGETHER NOW! (For the sake of the NHS) (And Mankind)

 

We all love a bit of polarised division!

When we open a fridge door at Xmas, we don’t say to ourselves:
“Which of these nutritious vegetables should I sate my hunger with?”
We say: “Meat or Cheese?”

Everyone in the Waveney Valley border-region supports either OTBC FC or Ipshit.
(There’s one or two Man Utd supporters, but that’s how modern liberal democracy works. With the illusion of ‘Choice’).

Most folk around here will claim to “Always vote Tory”, but when push comes to shove the electorate are primarily Maxes or Commonests.

So I got to thinking about how we could close the binary division over 'whether or not we should put our weakest at risk and our NHS under strain', with a more nuanced approach to our civil liberty, our right to celebrate, our rescue of the independent hospitality industry, and our overall feeling of being preached-to by the ‘Nanny State’?
(Quick Heads Up: Spoons, Dominos and Morrisons Cafe’ will still be here in 2022, even if our local pubs and cafes aren’t.
Some blame for ‘the inevitable’ must be laid at theirs and their customers’ feet).

If Eustice & Daffy Saj are right in their assumption, and Professor Hunter is actually being listened to, apart from the usual several thousand deaths from ‘the common cold’, the only thing we have to worry about is the strain on the NHS, caused by increased levels of Covid transmission.
Simples!
(I daren’t mention the Democratic Republic of Congo where your smartphones come from, for fear of another Facebook ban )

So……….
Why don’t we give 20% of everything we spend this NYE directly to the NHS Workers
(NOT the slowly & incrementally privatised ‘NHS Operation’).
And also INSIST that those promises made by PM Bonson after ‘Lockdown Two’ are met?

For every £25 round of drinks we buy, stick a fiver in a nurse’s wallet?
For every 4 course meal we eat - whilst out, stick a score in a paramedic’s purse?
For every £10 entry fee we incur, pop a couple of quid in a porter’s pocket?

There are over 100,000 vacancies in the NHS that need filling desperately.
Brexit & an underfunded health service have led to this untenable situation.

We are expecting NHS Staff to work every day (including Xmas, Boxing and New Year's) caring for the elderly & sick, whilst boosting the whole nation back into the Old Normal. 

We pay them jack-shit!
Yet we will fill A&E this Friday ‘just exercising our rights to do what we want’, ignoring the fact that the real enemy to 'The Economy’ is ourselves.

We cry ‘Take Back Control’ or ‘Save Our NHS’, then give credence to a political system that doesn’t care.

We allow our ministers to give themselves pay-rises, then tell us they can’t afford to give essential workers one.
We vote for ‘Austerity’ then wonder why councils can’t empty bins?

We blindly ‘Eat Out To Help Out’ then ignore requests to stay-in.

We smash avocados, jizz over kimchi & ‘jarcuterie’, TikTok our chocca-mocha infusions, and elevate ‘street food experiences’ to the heights of a pop festival messiah.

Yet we carry on regardless & oblivious when our leaders spend £200Million on a royal boat.
(A boat for an already privileged family!)

And we applaud the drivers of £8Million racing cars, for burning precious fossil fuels and advertising dinosaur corporations intent on raping Mother Earth;
drivers who are paid £62Million for acting out a teenage spunk-fantasy on global TV!

Then we ignore death, torture, deprivation and military conflicts that are happening all around us, every minute of the day, every day of the year, most of the time bankrolling regimes that might just make it possible for overpaid kickballers to finally bring kickball ‘Home’.

Humanity IS sustainable!
But at the moment we appear to be doing everything we can to end it.
We must INVEST in our services. And investment must come from our leaders.
(Regardless of which side of the fence we are camped on).
And we can only do this by coming together, and insisting on system-change.
Whilst we were not looking up from our phones*, the fast-approaching comet took one look at Planet Earth, decided it wasn’t worth it, shook hands with poverty, famine & disease, and left us all to it……………..

*Other huge budget dystopian satires are available.