I never quite 'got' that statement - "Champagne Socialist". It's as though you can only ever be resolutely working-class with holes in your socks in order to be a socialist. There is such a thing as "aspirational Socialism", it was something Wilson tried in the 60s and Blair in the 90s (before he found God and Dubya).
What does annoy me is a particular nonsense called "luxury communism". As someone whose father escaped a certain death under Uncle Joe after WW2, that sort of nonsense is particularly offensive to my ears. There does seem to be a mindset now that you can never, ever, get away from the social class you were born in: I came from a C2D background yet now I'd be classed as AB. So my inner socialist says "I had the chances - why shouldn't everyone else be given them?".
However, what that has to do with this damned virus, which is threatening to turn things upside down yet again...
The thought of those who live in ivory towers comes to mind ... too many liberal intellectuals aspiring to be 'of the people' when in fact they have no connection to the class of people in question. London is full of them - most are in the Labour Party which ceased being a party of the working classes in the 1940s. Political and social Utopia is a pipe dream - hasn't worked in Eastern Europe and won't ever work in the West.
All that the current crisis has done is given people too much time to think and exercise political lunacy. When people get back to relative normality and have productive things to occupy their minds (like going back to work) I suspect all the political and social idiocy will fade away to the background ... where it belongs quite frankly.
Dorabella
There is far more to the Lancet story - including a group of MDs in the US who dared to speak out against Fauci and the WHO re Hydroxychloroquine therapy for COVID-19. Suffice to say, they were quickly censored and shut down on YouTube and other SM platforms.
But let's look at a country like Turkey which didn't enforce a "full" nationwide lockdown like the UK and is routinely using Hydroxychloroquine (in conjunction with steroid meds in some cases) to treat COVID-19 patients. In country with a greater population than the UK it has a low "COVID-19-related" death toll of 5,700. 220,000 COVID-19 patients are said to have recovered.
So President Erdogan is doing something right by rejecting WHO "directives", as are some other countries we rarely hear about on the BBC and mainstream news
KK
Never Surrender, Comrade
Yeah, but I can you trust the numbers coming out of Turkey either? Erdogan has more dictatorial fantasies than I do
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