THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR
SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora has been signed up by the Daily Express. Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice in these troubled times that has won him hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
IT WAS a exactly a week ago today that myself and 31 fellow professors, doctors and scientists sent the Prime Minister and his team a letter outlining our thoughts on how we could best move forward.
It’s been a whirlwind week. In reality we will probably never know which is or has been the right strategy to follow.
As I’ve always said, drawing comparisons with other countries is fraught with difficulties.
I never liked the idea of following the German, Swedish or South Korean model. Why couldn’t we devise a British system which dealt with all of the problems we face on these islands?
Learn from the mistakes and successes of others, but ultimately we need to forge our own path more successfully while avoiding the current nonsensical differences between the four countries.
From bitter personal experience, I am fully aware of some of the hate and personal abuse other signatories of that letter have experienced. Not just from anonymous trolls online, but from other doctors and scientists.
I’ve been doing this for months now. If an academic on the other side of the country wants to tweet a few nasty words at me, it really doesn’t bother me.
I just worry for the others who have bravely stuck their head above the parapet and are having to deal with this infantile abuse. My attitude is to just ignore them, but I’ve seen people I previously respected getting really nasty and sharing downright lies.
I urge anyone who remotely listens to me to please try to keep it all civil.
I feel the best approach is to try and rise above all the hate. If they want to engage in such unpleasantness, so be it. I have many better ways to spend my free time.