Regular readers will know I have no time for Ms Thunberg whatsoever. Her latest edict will have world leaders reconsidering their Covid strategy even as we speak. Her continued assertion that these crises disproportionately affect the young is hardly rocket science. The longer you have to live the more you will be affected by anything - good or bad. However, far fewer young people are likely to suffer bad symptoms of the virus or to die than are older people - something she might have overlooked.
Last month, in one of the magazines which Mrs NJ takes, there was an extract from a new book by Ms Thunberg's mother. In it she provided an insight into the condition of her daughter. I won't go into great detail but her mother made it quite clear - as I have suggested many times - that her daughter has serious psychiatric issues. She has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, she suffers from Asperger's, has an irrational feeling of victimhood and is still in the throes of a serious eating disorder, which thankfully she seems to be gradually overcoming. Her mother described how it would take her half an hour to eat a third of a banana and over two hours to eat five small pieces of gnocchi. When these symptoms first reared their head her parents' strategy was to indulge her every whim, sometimes to such a degree that her sister was being somewhat neglected. That indulgence led to more irrational demands and they embraced wholeheartedly her crusade on Climate Change. No doubt this latest campaign will be met with similar indulgence.
It's very sad that she has these ailments. But somebody with such irrational behavioural traits and who has been over-indulged by her parents should not now be indulged by world leaders and treated as the New Messiah.