Another lock-down.
We could see it coming and I suppose my feeling at the moment is more quiet despair than raging anger. I’m all out of anger, I think.
In a hundred years time, historians will look back at this period and wonder what madness overtook the world, such that it went into a spiral of self destructive behaviour over something that we have coped with before perfectly well.
The mantra about following “the science” is nothing more than a religious chant to keep the evil spirits at bay, for the politicians peddling it are not following anything remotely scientific. They are behaving like primitive pagans seeking to appease the gods with sacrifices and it is not they who are the sacrificial lambs here.
Anyone who is capable of following statistics will see for themselves that regardless of the level of lock-down imposed across the world, the gompertz curve was identical. Therefore, the only logical conclusion to draw from this is that lock-downs don’t work. But, then, as anyone with an ounce of reason will have worked out, of course not, the best that they can do is delay the spread of infection. Sure, in the early days, maybe buying time was necessary, but why are we buying time now? Oh, yeah, Boris doesn’t want to be the man who destroyed Christmas. Never mind the economy, thousands of lives, livelihoods and businesses, mustn’t destroy Christmas.
As Carl Vernon said, if lock-downs work, why are we having a second one? If lock-downs don’t work, why are we having a second one?
We are governed by cretins led by the nose by a bunch of incompetent charlatans – talking of which, that arsehole Ferguson was wittering on the BBC just before the announcement. In what sane world does someone this wrong about everything get to parade his incompetence on public television?
Maybe that anger is still lurking as I felt my blood boil at the sight of his smug face being paraded on the box.
Much the same is true of climate change, the world has been taken over by a madness which is supposedly following the science. It is not really a great surprise that the idiot politicians who want to control people’s behaviour and destroy the economy in the name of climate change are just as happy trampling over human rights and trashing the economy in the name of COVID-19.
The Climate Change scare wasn’t getting the job done quick enough and may even have been faltering. Something more immediate was required.
” They are behaving like primitive pagans seeking to appease the gods with sacrifices”
But have we tried throwing politicians into a volcano to appease the virus?
Just askin’…
Apparently ancient Irish tribes would sacrifice their kings if the gods were displeased. I’m happy enough to do this.
I think that I am just going to have to stop myself from fretting over all this. I’m pretty much powerless to do anything about it anyway. In every other way life is pretty good. I’m newly retired, own my house, everything that I have is bought and paid for. Masses of jobs to do in the home and garden. Sure the fall out from the government’s incompetence is going to affect me and those around me, whatever happens I’m sure that I’m resourceful enough to deal with it. I just don’t see the point of staying angry about it anymore.
That’s pretty much where I am. I still work part time, but if I am careful, I can manage on my pension. Like you, the house is paid for. I’ll be okay. Thousands won’t be though.
The other thing to avoid is social media. It is there that you realise how stupid and gullible people are. They swallow every lie, they lack the capacity for critical thinking and repeat the propaganda in idiotic, emotionally incontinent, trite memes that will drive you nuts if you read them.
I guess you dont live alone.
Spoiler Alert: It is a sacrifice, and it all rather reminds me of the classic folk horror film, The Wicker Man. At the end, as the flames rise towards him, Sargent Howie points at Lord Summerisle from inside The Wicker Man and screams “And when the crops fail next year they will have to burn YOU too!”
Here’s hoping that next year, next summer, we can put Boris and Hancock and Pantsdown Ferguson and Valance and the rest of the sorry bunch of fools and self-important bullshitters into The Wicker Man and watch it go up. That will finally raise our spirits and, who knows, may even make our tomatoes flourish…
I was made redundant at the end of February. I managed to get a job sorted to start on the 31st March (a different industry and a step up) unfortunately it was in packaging for takeaway food, so Boris scuppered that one. Last week I got another job to start tomorrow, fortunately this industry won’t be affected by this lockdown, although I was a bit worried. I’ve had 8 months of unemployment but managed to keep afloat as I had some insurance and cashed in a couple of small pensions. JSA was the square root of F all and only lasted 6 months. I foresee revolting peasants, burning brands and pitchforks, well I’d like to think so but I fear it is a forlorn hope.
A forlorn hope indeed. We are a small minority. The majority are busy posting sanctimonious emotive bullshit on social media blaming us for the spread of a virus that is in the air. Idiots.
In the first half of the 1980s I spent a lot of time going in and out of jobs. It was difficult to find permanent employment back then but, having a reasonable skill set, I was never out of work for long. I would expect that a period similar to that time might be upon us.
Thank you for your blog Longrider.
It’s helped me a lot this year, as have the thoughts of your regular commenters.
I’m hoping for, and indeed expecting a Trump win next week.
Maybe that will be the start of better things!
I would hope for a Trump win as well, but a Biden win is already baked in. Biden will ‘win’, by hook or by Crook – mostly the latter. Guaranteed unfortunately.