And so the next step in repeating the mistakes of te last century creeps in... isolationism becomes nationalism and then wars are not far behind.
Criticising a free press which, regardless of political persuasion, seem to be less than impressed by the government's handling is also worrying.
First it was certain broadcasters or newspaper titles were accused of bias on Brexit. Fair enough, that was a polarising subject and someone might feel the 'other' side were attacking them.
But this is a common challenge across the world, and certain countries or cultures are doing a better job.
Yesterday's graph (switched back from a logarithmic scale, consistency in presenting data is paramount unless you are trying to change the narrative) shows we are still closely following Italy and, thankfully, not as bad as Spain.
But why, given the warnings we had and the opportunity to act earlier and avoid this?
It may be true that lockdown was not necessary, follow Sweden's course to see if that may have been right.
Opposition parties have to find a balance between challenging and supporting the government.
The press should be free of such concerns but are pilloried by the public for daring to challenge the government's response.
What I can see is people having jobs after all this but poorer than before with the additional taxation they will bear and still no appetite to fairly tax businesses, particularly Amazon, Starbucks etc and the wealthy.
A tithe is simple... everyone pays the same share. Tax is not. The rich have sufficient headroom in their wealth to employ someone to discover loopholes.
And so the inequality going into this year will be even more pronounced at the end, and politicians will argue better to be poor than dead. Except economies need a poor underclass that knows its place to make money for others.
And the poor will be more resentful than they were after the GFC, and there will be no more immigrants to blame after Brexit for them being poor so they will point the finger at another country for them being poor. And wars will start.
And the wealthy will look on and allow this to happen because it serves their needs.
An earlier post said not to politicise this thread, to pull together behind our government and support it, yet it is acceptable to label other countries and regimes and not scrutinise our own?