I generally avoid reading Monbiot’s drivel as it is usually ill-informed, authoritarian garbage. But, you know, sometimes I have this masochistic streak.
Across the UK, over the past two years, the NHS has been standing down even the most basic precautions against Covid-19. For example, staff in many surgeries and hospitals are no longer required to wear face masks in most clinical settings. Reassuring posters have appeared even in cancer wards, where patients might be severely immunocompromised. A notice, photographed and posted on social media last week, tells people that while they are “no longer required to wear a mask in this area”, they should use hand sanitiser “to protect our vulnerable patients, visitors and our staff”. Sanitising is good practice. But Covid-19 is an airborne virus, which spreads further and faster by exhalation than by touch.
The story this policy tells, which the government would have us believe, is that Covid-19 is all but over. It’s not true. Despite a collapse in testing, which means the figures will be grossly understated, the number of death certificates giving Covid-19 as a cause has been climbing steadily as autumn approaches, rising from 80 per week in early August to 306 in late September. Who knows what the real number may be?
Clearly he drank deeply of the Kool-Aid. The man is a moron. Masks don’t work. Have never worked and never will work. Covid has done precisely what many of us realised that it would do – it has become an endemic background virus and, yes, it will cause deaths among those who are already compromised by some other underlying condition, in exactly the same way that flu does. It’s here, live with it. We don’t need mask wearing, we don’t need testing and if this prick thinks that the government can control it, I’d like to introduce him to King Cnut, who, a thousand years ago, had more wisdom than Moonbat could ever dream of.
There’s plenty of masking going on, but not the kind that prevents infection. The government is masking its failure to get to grips with this virus. It’s masking the fact that, thanks to three years of such failures, Covid-19 is now a constantly evolving endemic infection likely to kill or disable many thousands every winter. It’s masking the ableism its rhetoric has encouraged: the othering and blaming of those who contract the disease, driven by the widespread but wholly mistaken belief that fit and healthy people don’t catch it. It’s masking the cruelty of a system that shuts down the lives of clinically vulnerable people.
Utter drivel. No one is saying this. No one. Moonbat is making stuff up and presenting it as fact. The man is an embarrassment.
I didn’t bother reading the rest of it in any detail, I have a life to live and reading his dreary, turgid, ill-informed cack is more than a man can bear. I’m not that masochistic after all.
Lefties always seem to think that the government can solve all of their problems. A strange delusion when you consider that the government has a proven track record of causing and exacerbating problems rather than solving them. I don’t know anyone who thinks that fit and healthy people can’t catch the virus, it is simply understood that fit and healthy people who succumb are likely to be mildly inconvenienced by having to spend a few days in bed rather than dying.
Yes, Moonbat is either a fool or he is lying.
Or both.
When I come across a word like ‘ableism’ or ‘othering’ I read no more. They show the writer up to be a complete idiot.
If he had done any research, he would have found out that washing your hands many times a day prevents infections a lot better than wearing a useless mask, which people touch with their hands (!) all the time.
If you think a mask will protect you then go ahead, wear a mask. If you thing another mask between my face and yours will protect you even more then go ahead, wear two masks. I don’t care what you do as long as you’re not enforcing your preferences on me.
Quite.
This is the guy who wants people taxed more for having empty spare rooms in their houses.