OP-ED: When will they stop badgering us with inanity?

By Vasilis Kanellis

There are times that I must admit that Kostas Zouraris was right when he famously declared in parliament (in a different context) that "they are busting our genitals".

What with the fatigue from the pandemic, people's inability to take any more inanity, and the occasionally incomprehensible statements of politicians and scientists, this last phase of the pandemic is turning into something of a parody.

At times we laugh with all this, at times we cry, and times we become enraged by unacceptable situations.

For example, when you have a former prime minister who is now opposition leader coming out and declaring that the government's "unstocking" [AstraZeneca] of vaccines that led thirty-somethings to hasten to be vaccinated, then that can only mean that they don't give a hoot about what we think and they say whatever comes to mind.

No doubt Alexis Tsipras bitterly regrets what he said. His exaggerated rhetoric and his eagerness to oppose even what is by all accounts a successful vaccine rollout leads him to extremes.

Certainly he must now be aware that the tens of thousands of younger people that rushed to make a vaccination appointment have given him a resounding answer to his remark about "unstocking".

This incident demonstrates how easy it is for even a quite clever politician to make a gaffe. After all, he himself was putting down vaccines just a few months ago.

Everyone makes a gaffe every now and then. The first stage of the vaccine rollout was a huge gaffe, if not just complete indifference about public opinion, as cronies, MPs, relatives of politicians, and even low-level party hacks rushed and were allowed to be vaccinated when the rules did not entitle them to do so.

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