I believe so that we haven't heard too much about that for a year. Vaccine urgency declined through 2021 into the position they are today - more harm than good.
All the same I hope she recovers. If not, she's had a good innings.
ChesneyChrist: I've got a very different take on the queen and monarchy. And it's that wherever you are in life you don't necessarily deserve it. The poor are not all stupid, the elite ain't all that. So much in this world is blind luck. Being king could happen to anyone, being homeless could happen to anyone.
Status is not merit basically. Those without merit can be of great status, those without status can be of great merit. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.
The monarchy serves to demonstrate that life is unfair. And because it's unfair the elites owe sympathy towards their lessers, and the lesser are NOT an inferior race. I believe this in contrast to the technocracy and an elite of experts, the arrogant and prideful seeing themselves as a superior race. The belief of the educated who are not smart necessarily, but have certainly rigged the system so that credentials and a matrix of intelligence scores replace ones ability to do the job.
And I believe in that, believe in fortune and misfortune, believe in fate because no matter how Orwellian and managed down to the smallest detail life is, there will still be an element of chance a possibility for things to happen not because of our making but because of life itself being like a lottery.
Two very different reason to support the monarchy. For me it devalues praise but also condemnation. What you love and what you hate is just what you love and what you hate. People can care all about the wrong things so popularity and unpopularity don't really mean that much. That's what I see in the monarchy.
More than this I like to keep the old feudalism because the new one is ignoble. A technofeudalism where titleage is made out of degrees unnecessary for the job. The Queen won't feel personally deserving to be Queen unlike new money which will. No matter how much new money inherits wealth from the culture, there will be no humility or gratitude only a sense that you deserve to be the most privileged people ever to have lived. And I find it dangerous.
ChesneyChrist: More than this I like to keep the old feudalism because the new one is ignoble. A technofeudalism where titleage is made out of degrees unnecessary for the job. The Queen won't feel personally deserving to be Queen unlike new money which will. No matter how much new money inherits wealth from the culture, there will be no humility or gratitude only a sense that you deserve to be the most privileged people ever to have lived. And I find it dangerous.
And I guess that's a shift in the priority of education. Why must you know so much irrelevant to the job to get the job? Because of religious education. To abide to the creed of a certain class of society. It doesn't matter if the hospitals are short of nurses, we must lose each nurse for a number of years so as not to offend their master.
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Why wouldn't you know that?