Vaccinations.

 Before I put anything else, I want to point out that I am not anti, although it might read as if I am.

There's currently a big push to get all people over a certain age, plus vulnerable people to have a booster jab. The annual flu jab is also being offered. The government angle is, "to avoid further lockdown situations."

However, we are told in the next breath that the uptake of the first and second vaccines is somewhat lower in the younger age groups. (I also suspect that if the younger generation aren't having them, they won't be encouraging their high school aged children to have the vaccines.)

So essentially, older people are being vaccinated so that younger people can just carry on as normal. Or that's how it seems to me.  Maybe the cull didn't take enough and they're hoping for a further rise in the total? 

I'm having mine for personal reasons, and to keep others safe. Plus I still wear a mask in enclosed spaces and avoid going shopping at busy times.  Having disabilities maybe prepared me, and others, to be cautious around others. 

You wouldn't believe it in a TV drama.

 I can hear you scratching your heads from here.

What does she mean?  As you might be aware, there's a climate emergency conference on in Glasgow at the moment.

Earlier  this week, after giving a speech that sounded very earnest, well the bit on the news did, the Scarecrow then took a private jet back to London to attend a dinner at a private club he's a member of.

Why?  Surely that is the definition of hypocrisy? As usual the government are displaying their "do as I say, not as I do" attitude.

And today the education Secretary has issued a plea for school pupils to demonstrate at weekend, so that their parents won't be fined for their non attendance at school.  He's rather missing the point of the demonstration if that's his first reaction. The demonstrations are on school days in order to give some weight to their argument. (Or at least that's how I see it.)

R.E.S.P.E.C.T!

 I was brought up to respect my elders, and not question them.  The adage being that "they knew better".  Presumably, because of the life experience they had gone through. 

However, when you're an adult yourself, do you still have to take an "elder's" opinion as to the way something should be done as the correct way?  When they say things that are hurtful, do you take it on the chin, and say nothing?  

In their eyes reacting would be seen as disrespect. 

I'm torn.  I have brought up my three to be respectful, but also, do what is right, and question anything that doesn't ring true. (In other words, I don't expect them to accept everything I say and do to be the RIGHT way, and everything else is wrong.) 

So, do I tell the person in question, my mum, that some things she says to me are hurtful, or do I continue until there's only one of us left?  Which will make me miserable every time she says something judgemental aimed at me. 

Are you allowed  to tell your parents that they are saying hurtful things, even when you are an adult? 

And surely respect should be a two-way street? 

It was a dark and stormy night

 Wow!

So long since I last posted.

In answer to my question,  "Are we out of the woods yet?"  I think we'd just been floundering in the edges of the woods. Now the country is stuck in the centre of a very dark, dangerous woods, with no idea which is the way out. 

Perhaps if common sense had taken hold we might not be in this situation, but when we're given "official advice" that is as clear as a mud, and it's constantly changing, what else did we expect.  In addition, when someone in the public eye blatantly broke the rules, rather than be castigated for their misdemeanoours, the rules, suddenly changed, so that they hadn't broken them, just simply jumped the gun. 

I don't expect that I will be getting a vaccination until late March, early April.

The vaccinations, while a good thing, need explaining properly to the elderly who are getting them first, as a relative of mine was under the impression that they would be immune after the first dose.