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I wondered how long it would be before the bubble burst. Just like Trump's asinine and rather pathetic attempt to stage a coups d'état was over before it started, unfortunately incurring four deaths in the process: his fellow republicans bar a half-dozen or so in the House and even Twitter later rounding on him and turning their backs. Now, here we learn that the UK's vaccination rollout is already starting to stall, with our second-largest city about to run out of doses of one vaccine (and having received none of the promised supply of the other) by tomorrow.

The spurious reasons given for extending the period between doses now seem to have a simpler and rather more familiar explanation: hubris and cock-up in equal measure. I refer back to my post about New York's Smallpox outbreak and the authorities' response to it. Six million people vaccinated in one month in the aftermath of a World War. 1947. Six million. Seventy-four years on, and we're struggling already; having given a couple of million jabs out so far. In 2021. Unbelievable; just like Trump's hopes of running for office again, or even having a sodding business to go back to, should he manage to stay out of jail.

On both sides of the Atlantic, the last four years (and counting, for us) have seen one humongous balls-up after another go by, largely ignored by the bulk of the populace and the mainstream media: the latter giving them a measure of leave to continue on their path far outstripping any reasonable notion of fair play. Tyrants don't deserve a fair crack of the whip; but it just seems to be the default position that those seeking tyranny from behind the respectable façade of the establishment are allowed not just a head start, but absolute licence to lie and dissemble their way to that tyranny.

Update: I heard this morning that a police officer injured in the fracas at the Capitol has since unfortunately died.

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