Many people in Europe behave like mules... the governments put some carrots in front of them so they carry on with the trot, unable to realize that they will never reach their goal, simply because the goal post is moving all the time. Evidence? Changes next week. Metrics? Numbers will move willy-nilly. Medics or vaccines available? New mutation or viruses pop up suddenly.
(I find this insulting for mules, which are pretty intelligent animals, but thats another topic...)
That is exactly what you get if you react too slow.... While you are still discussing the problem of the engine flame-out, the problem of crashing into the next mountain suddenly becomes more urgent. So change the metrics. Instead of RPM, you now have to talk about FPM and feet above ground.
Any infected person is one lab vat more for the virus to evolve, the more people are infected, the more successful mutations you will find. Nobody talks about unsuccessful mutations, likely trillions of those never made it. Its all simple math. Instead of talking how we make sure that the virus stays contained, we can now discuss how to prevent a much better adapted virus from rolling over us, that is already widespread in the country - because our way of governance failed.
We did not kick the butt of the first politician to even suggest opening ski resorts in Tyrol midway into an epidemic wave. Because it was utterly stupid. No, we treated this idea like it was a valid argument among many. Now we have people talking ${excrement} about opening schools again because children are not getting ill that often. In a few weeks, we can discuss why we allowed to let our children get permanently disabled or killed, because the new strains do not behave like the old one. That is sure worth it, but that is what you get when idiots even treat measles as if it is a completely harmless disease.
Also, we did not kick those politicians and "experts", who suggested that a permanent state of epidemic and mild lockdown is better for our economy than shutting everything non-essential down for some weeks and then stay alert. It is not. It is maybe better than not doing anything at all. But that is easy in the current situation.
So, you want to complain about never reaching a goal? What are you expecting if nobody is even doing anything for getting towards this goal?
