Ok – it’s been a rough night – and like a lot of
folk there's not much sleep going on in my life. However, this occured to me
and seemed almost lucid (at 4am GMT)
Is Covid-19 a self-inoculating virus?
Folk don’t – as we know – always make logical
decisions or they make horrible decisions for terrible reasons – especially in
politics. However, you’d need to have been buried under bedrock for the last 8
months not to have worked out one very simple truth about this pandemic.
Countries with terrible leaders – right wing,
populist, corrupt, racist, vain sociopaths - in particular, have been relatively far more
deadly places to live than comparable countries.
Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jair
Bolsonaro have a lot in common (apart from faithless marriages and multiple wives) which I've posted about before. The list includes corruption, populism, idiocy, right wing spite and bigotry, I could go on. The other thing
they have in common is exceptionally poor handling of this pandemic.
IF people put 2 and 2 together (which I know is out of fashion in the world of 2020) this might inoculate the world – for a while – against electing morons…