@mogga - call me 'naive' but I prefer to think that I live in a benign society, which I help to create, elect representatives for - and trust, to keep me in a social framework of bringing up a family. Good schools, good roads, transport, a good health system (of which I had a recent experience and I am very impressed) and a civil population which is pleasant to live amongst - (apart from the usual transgressives, which every society gets), make me trust in this wonderful country - and its elected representatives. Of course, there are always the anti-social types of all kinds, including those in the corporate world -every country has them.
So here is room for improvement - there always is. If I had stayed in 'my old country' I would have ended up in politics, but migrating and making a new life, with an almost instant family, made me put such ambitions away. I have worked for politicians, know that they are fallible, my particular one, was just out to get what he could from the 'system' (he has passed on now) - but generally, the 'system' works, particularly the British variety, and I am happy to be living here.
I prefer to live in the belief, that we are still in a sane country (not sure about the world), which is pleasant to live in. Covid played me a nasty trick, insofar that my darling child over in Britain was dying from cancer and I couldn't be there - her cancer couldn't be checked in time, because - like so many on here - she didn't believe in 'regular' medicine and she tried alternatives for a whole year. She still lived and worked productively another 9 years with the help of 'regular' medicine, but she missed the early intervention. During the last year of her life, I visited, and attended with her - at a very expensive inner London apartment - an alternative 'healer's' session for cancer patients, which was so much 'airy-fairy' talk, but I consented silently that it was o.k. what this lady suggested, because I knew my daughter was then clutching at straws and there was no way, I would cast doubt on what seemed like a last hope, but this woman was making good money from the desperation of deadly-sick people.
There are so many so-called 'experts' out there profiting from the sick and desperate.
The Covid Anti-vaccination 'campaign' as conducted on here, has its origins in America and is politically (right-wing) motivated. Somehow its tentacles reach across the world, though in Europe it only has a few 'followers' - often promulgated by people who like to fluff and bluster and show off their 'importance' (and make money from) on the various media, most of them without a serious scientific background. Go well Taurisk
