Explain this. Please.

I know I’m prone to returning to the same old subject, like some addict who can’t resist one more hit, but I woke this morning and did my usual quick scan of the news and, thanks to Chris Boardman, found this Tweet:

It immediately reminded of a completely unrelated piece of news I read the other day, which went exactly like this:

Here’s a comment from the article featured in Dan Roan’s Tweet:

‘Chair of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee Julian Knight said the decision “exposes the crazy economics in English football and the moral vacuum at its centre”.

“It sticks in the throat that clubs are continuing to pay their stars hundreds of thousands a week while furloughing staff on a few hundred pounds a week.”‘

Firstly, how the hell can a football club have that many staff? I have no idea. I had no idea that it would anything like that number.

More importantly, however, (for me at least) from both of these items, the same question arises. What the fuck is wrong with the world? If you’re someone doing the clapping thing, or you’re a multi-billionaire, or your club/company has just made profits in the millions, just what else are you thinking? How can you be so in awe of the work done by the NHS staff, and so grateful for their efforts in keeping you safe, while at the same time completely ignoring the possibility that they might just be cycling to work? How can you have so much wealth, earn so much in profits and continue paying obscene sums to star players, while treating the rest of your staff like this (oh, and taking advantage of the Government’s furlough scheme)? Moral vacuum, indeed.

I should say that I have no particular beef with Tottenham Hotspur. I am aware of similar things (apparently) happening elsewhere, in a number of businesses. I think Branson’s name may have come up, for example. The Spurs case just happens to be the one that brought it to my attention.

Let’s also not forget that ‘the people’, which will include a lot of the clappers, voted for Brexit, and for this shambles of a Government. How many medical staff are ‘bloody foreigners’? How many European workers do you need to pick the fruit and vegetables that will soon be rotting in the fields? Coming over here, taking our jobs, blah, blah, blah.

Again, I’m not making light of the fact that so many people have felt the need to publicly acknowledge what’s going on right now. This whole thing has undoubtedly helped to draw much-needed additional attention to the importance of tackling this crisis. My point is – and this essentially mirrors the situation in Taiwan to which I referred the other day, where virus epidemic action = 1st class, while road death epidemic action = “what epidemic?” – how can we be so good at this community stuff while simultaneously ignoring (or taking part in) such hypocrisy?

We haven’t really thought this one through, now have we?