This is How They Do It

The media narrative.

This is the largest anti-lockdown protest yet seen in the UK, seeing around 100 people gather in London’s Hyde Park.

As the UK’s coronavirus death toll neared 36,000, demonstrators had no qualms about violating social distancing to show their contempt for public health measures.

While some cast doubt on the existence of the illness, others were voicing beliefs that the virus had been created as a weapon and was being spread deliberately, while fellow protesters took aim at the “tyrannical” lockdown.

Those of us who oppose the lock-down have now been neatly written off as conspiracy theorists: The loons who think that it is down to 5G, or doesn’t exist.

It encapsulates everything into a convenient false dichotomy which both the facile press and politicians favour and is the kind of hard-of-thinking suited for the vacuous virtue-signallers on social media. They ignore the shades of grey, preferring the black and white world of “we are right, you are wrong.”

You do not have to believe the 5G nonsense to oppose the lock-down. And those of us who oppose it do indeed take the virus seriously – we just don’t agree that hiding away is the solution.

I see repeated warnings about a second wave if we lift the lock-down. Well, yes, of course. What do people think will happen? That the virus will pack up its bags and bugger off having been beaten by the population hiding under the duvet?

We are told the New Zealand with its restrictive lock-down has done very well with its death count. Again, when they open their borders, as they must at some point, what do we think will happen? Or has the virus decided that New Zealand is off limits because Jacinda Ardern has shut the borders and locked the country down? I’m not sure that a stern telling off from Jacinda Ardern will do the trick in the long term. The only solution is to allow the virus to spread and do its worst.

Of course, we are told that those of us who see reality for what it is are cold and unfeeling. That we don’t care about people dying. Of course we care. But it is an inevitability and as we are going to have to face the full brunt of this thing, the sooner we get it over with, the better.

In the meantime, we are derided along with the protesters in this article. While I do not agree with their theories, I do agree with them that the lock-down is a form of tyranny. I do agree with them that it needs to stop and I support their right to protest accordingly.

At several points, people sang “shove your vaccinations up your arse”.

I’m not entirely sure that’s how it works…

One man was walking around with Kermit the Frog on his shoulder, while another wore a red “Make America Great Again” cap.

Ah, of course, Orange Man bad.

No signs displaying allegiance to extremist groups were visible but at least one man present, and sipping from a can of super-strength lager, previously protested with the far-right UK yellow vests.

These media arseholes just can’t help themselves, can they? They really are scum.