We are so far down the rabbit hole and through the mirror that it’s becoming ever more difficult to discern news from parody these days.
Scientists have called for the government to scrap Christmas and introduce a midsummer holiday next year so families can celebrate then instead.
The Independent SAGE advisory group say there is a “strong case” for London to enter tier three restrictions next week, but say the entire country’s case rates will skyrocket in January unless Christmas is abandoned.
They say if it is not scrapped families should only visit relatives for whom this may be their last Christmas.
The group said: “It should be stressed that if everybody chooses to take advantage of the three-household rule, there is a very serious danger of a third wave of the pandemic.”
That odour you can detect is the scent of desperation from a group of people who haven’t so much lost the plot as misplaced it in a parallel universe on the other side of a black hole. I mean, seriously? And who would go along with this insanity?
If the government had any gumption, it would sack SAGE in its entirety and recruit people who actually know what they are doing.
For anybody who does decide to take advantage of the eased restrictions Indie SAGE say a “pandemic fuel allowance” should be laid on, to cover heating bills so families can keep windows and doors open during Christmas.
In the middle of the winter they are telling us to keep our windows open. Fer cryin’ out loud.
No, no and thrice, no!
The pandemic, such that it was, ended months ago. What we are seeing now is the usual spike in respiratory infections that we always get at this time of the year. The actual virus may be covid rather than seasonal flu, but things are normal for the time of the year. And, yes, there are always cries of the NHS is overwhelmed at this time of the year, so normal operation there, too.
He added: “It’s not just for government to tell us what to do – it’s for government to support us.”
Here, then is the heart of the problem. We elect governments to govern, not to micromanage our lives. It is not for the government to tell us what to do. It is for the government to fuck off out of it and leave us alone and mind its own damned business – and that goes for the control freaks in SAGE as well.
Professor Brian Jarman, an expert on hospital bed occupancy…
What?
The documents published at the end of November also suggested family members sit in a row like Jesus’ last supper during Christmas dinners, to prevent aerosols transferring between family members.
Board games and other interactive activities should be avoided, their advice suggested.
This, then, is the level of micromanagement we are being subject to.
I think I just lost the will to live.
That’s everyone can visit everyone then, unless Even-Lefter-SAGE have power to decide when one dies. Is this in the book of NHS Religion?
Bring it on: Lefty Virus Fear-mongers vs Lefty Green Fear-mongers – the suits vs the hippies
Yep. A SAGE with some virologists, immunologists, optimists and realists and No ‘modellers’ or vested interests would be good. The current gang of corrupt, public sector apparatchiks with no skin in the game has destroyed millions of people’s lives and they haven’t even saved the old & vulnerable who’ve been imprisoned or died.
You may remember I called it as a “bad Flu nothing-burger” in late February. I’ve removed “bad” since age cohort revealed
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Imprisoned
Reality vs Models
Boris needs to ditch Carrie Woke and put all these puritanical, miserabilist fascists on a one way flight to Venezuela
“Boris needs to ditch Carrie Woke and put all these puritanical, miserabilist fascists on a one way flight to Venezuela”
The B Ark option is becoming more and more attractive.
“…on a one way flight to Venezuela…”
But with only enough fuel to get somewhere mid-Atlantic.
Well maybe the best way to hang on to your sanity is to point and laugh.
Also this:
“Professor Brian Jarman, an expert on hospital bed occupancy…”
The one time that I was an in patient I was up and about In a couple of days. I was kept in for a week because I was having twice daily injections of antibiotics. It was apparently too difficult to arrange for me to have the injections as an out patient. Once I had had the last injection, first thing in the morning, it then took an entire day to get me checked out. There is certainly plenty for Professor Jarman to do if my case is anything like typical.
Pointing and laughing has some merit. However, someone is paying for these non jobs. That someone being us.
Only visiting relatives ‘for whom this may be their last Christmas’ is going to make it look more than a little tactless to arrive at Granny’s house bearing gifts and suitcases on the 23rd. Maybe I should go the whole hog and dress up as the Grim Reaper.
Take a tape measure. start a house inventory. and ask where all the policies, deeds and other documents are kept.