Following on from my little rant on Wednesday, I have conducted a little survey among our most regular customers – the ones who know me well and are used to my little idiosyncrasies. I asked them their views on the ongoing ‘virus crisis’ and asked for their responses to the restriction changes brought in earlier this week. Most of them, I am pleased to say, are disappointed but supportive. They understand the importance of the situation and are willing to do the work to get through it. A select few, bless them, are simply too unintelligent to grasp the severity of what’s going on, and unable to get their heads around the constant changes in advice (maybe that’s a lesson for those making the big decisions – aim your advice and tailor your requests to the ones who aren’t so bright.)
Of the ones who are defiant and disruptive – and we see quite a lot of those over the course of a working week – they seem to fall into one of three categories:
A). “We’re going to end up in another lockdown anyway, so I may as well get out and enjoy myself while I can”
B). “They’re
making it up as they go along. There’s no evidence anywhere that this stuff works
and it’s just an excuse to control us.”
C). “It’s
my life and it’s my body – it’s up to me if I want to risk getting Covid.”
Those aren’t direct quotes, by the way, that’s me
paraphrasing what people have said to me for the purposes of clarity and
conciseness. Category B) I
admit is quite a broad one – I’ve squished about eight different
mini-categories into one, but the sentiment behind the thoughts of the people
in that group seem to be the same, even if their choice of words are different.
They don’t trust the government, or they don’t trust the science, or both, and
they want to express that externally by refusing to co-operate with the
guidelines.
I have decided to name the three groups “Defying,
denying and dickheads.”
RC 26-9-20
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