The Queen is no longer the Queen of Barbados
James O'Brien - The Whole Show
Global
4.3 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 135 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Four minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. |
| 0:04.5 | I was quite drawn to overseas territories today. I was thinking we might talk about Barbados and also, |
| 0:11.5 | well, crikey, I nearly committed a faux par there. Also Northern Ireland, which doesn't quite fit into the category of overseas territory. |
| 0:18.0 | God forbid to start off with a mild controversy. |
| 0:22.4 | But, I mean, it's over the sea from where I am currently sitting. |
| 0:25.6 | So there you go. |
| 0:26.4 | I was just meaning it in a very literal definition. |
| 0:28.3 | So if you have a particular investment or interest in those two developing stories, |
| 0:33.4 | then today's the day, I think, for you to get involved, |
| 0:39.8 | help the rest of us come to a slightly better understanding of things. I begin, though, a bit, kind of where we left off yesterday, |
| 0:46.2 | with the psychology of people that we find baffling. I think with the coronavirus, there are two problems that the rest of us have |
| 0:57.7 | when we look at people who I think would probably be best as... |
| 1:00.7 | Well, let's be kind and say eccentric, to start with. |
| 1:04.2 | Things that are best described as eccentric. |
| 1:06.2 | And of course, they see themselves as brave crusaders |
| 1:08.6 | who are swimming valiantly against the tidal wave of misinformation and depression, |
| 1:13.8 | perpetrated by scientists and doctors and, you know, everybody with actual qualification. |
| 1:19.2 | So, but we'll stick with eccentric. There are two problems with eccentricies, and I can't solve the first one. |
| 1:25.5 | I don't think. The first one is the measurable damage that they do |
| 1:29.2 | to the rest of the population. So the fewer people wear masks, the fewer people get vaccinated, |
| 1:34.6 | the more likely we are to have a lockdown if you're feeling that that is the top priority |
| 1:39.2 | and also the more likely we are to have more infections if you're feeling that that's the top |
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