The insanity of the past two years hasn’t affected me as much as it might have – it’s cost me lost work and hence income, despite the SEISS – for the most part, I’ve ignored the stupid, contradictory unscientific rules and done my own thing. I’ve not worn a mask, never engaged in antisocial distancing and carried on pretty much as normal during the lockdowns and as for those bubbles they came up with the Christmas before last, I took no notice. I know I’m not the only one by any means. However, there are those among us who relished the whole thing, who have been successfully manipulated by the nudge unit in SAGE.
Boris Johnson today came under fire for announcing that he intends to ditch all remaining Covid laws within a fortnight as unions criticised the move as going ‘too far, too soon’, the Government’s own advisers warned of the ‘dangers’ and polls showed the public want the rules to stay.
Truly, the world has gone mad. The rules should never have been imposed in the first place. It is not the government’s place to stop the spread of an airborne virus, because it is outside its scope both as government and physically. Yet we still have the mentally weak thinking that the government should make us safe. It cannot. It is not within its purview. It is up to each of us as individuals to decide what is in our own best interests and to decide what risks we are prepared to endure.
Bear in mind that we are dealing with a coronavirus here – something that has been around pretty much as long as we have. What it did was entirely predictable and most of those who got it survived, just like seasonal flu. If this makes people hide behind the sofa, God knows how they would have coped with the Blitz.
Scottish Health Secretary Humza Yousaf said it ‘wasn’t a thought-out policy backed up by public health expert advice’,
Given that public health advice has been consistently wrong – catastrophically so – I’ll ignore everything they have to say on the matter, just as I’ll ignore the nasty little SNP wannabe dictator. Besides, this is England. He has no authority here and his opinion is of no value here.
What needs to happen now is that the cowards, the weak of mind and their enablers, need to be dragged, screaming and kicking, back to normality and those who caused all of this need to pay. There needs to be a reckoning. If you are so weak-minded that you think that we shouldn’t return to normal and that we should wear masks and carry on with this insanity – well, you rock on. Do what you like. Hide behind the sofa all day if it makes you feel better, but don’t you dare to assume that the rest of us should carry on enabling your delusions.
Absolutely right LR ! The Celts must love being dictated to. It won’t do for us English. A high proportion of UK people love wearing their filthy masks. In our Morrisons this morning my wife and I proudly maskless were very much in the minority.
The sad truth is there will be no reckoning, no-one is going to pay because they did not tweet a racist remark. Ideas about reckonings etc are for the birds.
“He has no authority here and his opinion is of no value here.”
His opinion is of no value anywhere, and he shouldn’t have any authority here either. I always knew that damned “Parliament“ was a mistake, but I never thought things would get this bad. It has to go.
I listened in to Jeremy Vine on Radio Two today, and the people who phoned in demanding masks forever ‘just in case’ would have received the ‘quick, cut the nutter off’ treatment on any decent radio show…
“for the most part, I’ve ignored the stupid, contradictory unscientific rules and done my own thing. I’ve not worn a mask, never engaged in antisocial distancing and carried on pretty much as normal during the lockdowns and as for those bubbles they came up with the Christmas before last, I took no notice”
Excluding ‘for the most part’, same here virus was always no worse than Flu.
Managed to persuade most family & relatives to dial down paranoia and not be too scared as I started spreading empirical data and truths, sorry misinformation, in late Feb 2020
. “Like bad Flu – a nothingburger”
What really pisses me off is the “But, we didn’t know” excuse
When I counter with “I and many others did, including Gov’ts and scientists It was there for all to see on every news broadcast: Diamond Princess”
Reaction is a tantrum, anger, accusations, insults, storming off…
Why is it so difficult to say “I was wrong”? We learn and improve by admitting wrongs
More pisses me off:
Now many claim Gov’t were wrong to…
I say, Gov’t caved in to msm, left and public demand for lockdowns
Retort: No, public didn’t
Well
BBC Question Time 12/03/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6qD4dSLWQ
When the DVSA pulled the plug, I was unable to work, so had no choice on that front. Otherwise, I ignored all the rules. If I had been able to work – i.e. my clients and their clients had been able and willing to carry on, I would. However, without testing, we were all stuffed.
All this just shows how far the Overton Window has shifted in the last two years in the unthinkable policy direction of less freedom.