Yeah, as much as I love the sound of the "pop", it's no fun on the 3rd bottle!The people who make screw top wine bottles are the real heroes.
It's hard to answer that given today's society is always looking for cheap food, clothes, alcohol, etc. Add to that all the players involved trying to squeeze a little bit more profit and is it any wonder the staff are paid poorly. If we as a society want to see these people rewarded better then we need to be prepared to pay more and I don't see that happening any time soon.How do we in society reflect that these industries are not just minimum wage employees but necessary to normal running of our lives?
Excellent points,It's hard to answer that given today's society is always looking for cheap food, clothes, alcohol, etc. Add to that all the players involved trying to squeeze a little bit more profit and is it any wonder the staff are paid poorly. If we as a society want to see these people rewarded better then we need to be prepared to pay more and I don't see that happening any time soon.
Which ones? Every country had lockdowns and restrictions. The UK may have made noises about freedom days and all that guff but public health still drove their response. If anything the needs of the old and vulnerable have been the only driver of the response. I'm not saying that's right or wrong but the knock-on impact on the mental health, education and actual wealth of young people has hardly been taken into account at all.The whole approach to peoples health and well being versus “the economy”. It is clear that some wealthier countries put “the economy” ahead of saving lives of those “with an underlying health condition” (which as you get older is almost everyone).
I think that the moral hazard created by a modern healthcare system needs to be looked at. We think we can drink and smoke and be unfit and fat and sure it'll be fine, there's a pill or operation etc that will fix it. Covid forced us to confront our mortality in a very small way and it frightened the hell out of many of us. We need to shift the narrative to a place where as individuals we invest in our own health by eating properly, exercising, not being fat and generally looking after ourselves.Clean water and vaccines have saved so many lives in the past centuries allowing us to become healthier, wealthy and productive. Medicine changes due to new understanding of health & well being. I think health care will need to undergo a massive shift again due to covid. Everything from physical building design (ventilation, anti viral surfaces and cleaning like UV radiation) to congregated old age care, to school design, mass transport design to prevent future pandemics being as serious.
I've said before that if the delivery drivers, sewage workers and waste collectors stopped working for a month it would kill far more people than if the doctors and nurses all stopped working for a month.The people we rely on during lockdown are the shop assistants, bin men, delivery drivers etc. How do we in society reflect that these industries are not just minimum wage employees but necessary to normal running of our lives?
This is the achievable post Covid change that I'd like to see.We need to shift the narrative to a place where as individuals we invest in our own health by eating properly, exercising, not being fat and generally looking after ourselves.