It concerns me that we are becoming a world of gossipers. I don’t mean conventional gossipers practicing verbal voyeurism of other people’s lives. I am referring to the ease with which we repeat the latest media driven tripe that is drivelled out as explaining illnesses, politics, climate and the goings on at Buckingham palace. One only has to trace the evolution of any one of these ‘conversations’ (read, ‘guesswork’) to realise how it’s all a game and infotainment. A year ago we were told herd immunity was a really good approach – let everyone get sick and we’ll all have the necessary immune defence within our bodies. Tell that to India today. A year ago everyone agreed that once the vaccine would be discovered it would be equitably shared throughout the world- producing laboratories with no country claiming ‘rights’ – a unified world collective effort. Witness today the most immoral competitive, restrictive, distribution of the vaccine clearly weighted towards the wealthy countries, and even then, including hoarding and dreadful administration. Two months ago Europe decided that Astra-Zaneca could cause blood clots. Now it doesn’t – or does it? Further, no-one knows how long the vaccine protects.  No one knows if those who are vaccinated can be provided with freedom of travel around the globe. Yet every government and talking head will provide you with measured and assured answers, claiming professional certainty – all to be outdated within weeks. And we could raise the same questions about stupid predictions from ‘climate change’ soothsayers who predicted that by now a good deal of the world would be inundated by floods, especially coastline plains and cities. Or the ‘official’ announcement ‘that Prince Phillip was being put into hospital just as a precautionary measure. Or that President Biden would open the Trump Wall as a humanitarian measure – a wall that remains as firmly locked today as before. And you and I buy it all – hook, line and sinker.  Why?