We’ve seen it before with totalitarian states. Human nature has a nasty side and the Covid-19 pandemic has certainly brought out the worst in people.
We have Hilary Jones claiming that those of us who understand statistics and risk, are selfish for not caving in and wearing face nappies – this despite there being no reason to.
“The more people who think they don’t need to, ‘we don’t need to wash our hands, we don’t need to wear masks, we don’t need to take precautions, we can go to the beach, we can get in people’s cars’… they’re the ones who will put the transmission rate up.
“They’ll impair the economy, make the NHS under strain again, and I think we either all do it or none at all.”
Okay, none at all. We don’t for seasonal flu, so there is no reason why we should for this disease. A disease that is doing precisely what we would expect it to do – come in hard then fizzle out. That second wave should have hit by now and it isn’t. Hilary Jones is ignoring the evidence. As for the advice – it’s confused and contradictory. Meanwhile, whether we are carrying or not, we have immune systems. Let them do their job.
But, the problem here is not fatuous lackwits like Jones. It’s what this rhetoric encourages. We’ve seen it with the curtain twitchers reporting people for walking their dog too often. We’ve seen the shamers harassing people in shops because they weren’t wearing a face nappy.
But we also see it in the comments to this very article from someone calling themselves mindel.
This demonisation of dissent leads inevitably to deranged idiots such as this advocating violence. Eventually, someone goes ahead and acts on it.
That is incitement to murder, has Mindel been investigated by the police? If not why not?
I’ve been to Asda today. Maybe about one in twenty people are wearing masks, some with their noses sticking over the top, some wearing them around their necks.
Unless Mindel is Tommy Robinson, the charges would never stick.
But then, Tommy Robinson hasn’t called for people to be stabbed. Yet he is guilty of wrongthink so must be forever damned.
Which is my point, the treatment of Tommy Robinson has demonstrated that, at least for some judges, the law in the UK is applied according to one’s political opinion rather than any actual crime committed.
I tend to regard him as the canary in the mine. We are in deep shit as far as free speech and equality before the law is concerned. Despite trying, they could find nothing that he has said that is actually hate speech or incitement. But they went ahead anyway. As I said, wrongthink.
According to R4 Today, the reason for making masks socially obligatory is because too many people are still scared to come out and go shopping and this meaningless gesture is to reassure them.
We have to wear masks because They are scaredycats, anybody pointing fingers at me can f*ck themselves.
Nearly forgot. About a month ago I asked a traffick Policeman if he, or the Police in general, had a view on wearing masks while driving?
He looked me square in the face and replied
“We don’t wear them”
Might be difficulties policing it then.
I fail to see why I should reassure bed-wetters who are afraid of their own shadows.
Whilst simultaneously alienating the rest of us who have continued to shop since this whole disgusting saga began…
And to show just how stupid people can be, Tony Heller’s latest post features some hikers wearing muzzles 12,000 ft up a mountain:
https://realclimatescience.com/2020/07/you-can-never-be-too-safe/
No face nappies for me !
Receptionist: “Oh, we don’t give out masks” I had read and photographed the notice on the way in.
Oddly enough, my GP wasn’t insisting on masks when I went in last week.
Chinese man smoking through face mask, and these lackwits think they stop a virus both ways – as the saying goes ” the stupid it hurts”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7EviRWWD8w