And now these unforgiveable fknuggets have ruled that face coverings are to be mandatory on public transport. So shortly they'll be mandatory in all settings, and the transformation of Britain into another nation of fear will be complete. All part of the project to convince us that we should stay cowed and not question their grotesque overreach. fk 'em. I am so tired of this idiotic health theatre and the pandering to the Hysterical jumped up little Hitlers inventing laws overnight that criminalise any behaviour they fancy. There's no longer even a pretence of being led by the science; this is just their way to lay the ground to unwind their equally idiotic antisocial distancing policy so that people can actually use public transport. And to placate the unions, rather than just rounding up all the union leaders in a field and breathing on them from less than two metres away until they die of fear.
And all the while deaths outside care homes trend to zero. Of course there are deaths in care homes. It's what fking care homes are for. If we actually cared about our old people we wouldn't warehouse them in value-engineered quasi-prisons until they have the decency to pop off. We didn't care in 2018. So why are we pretending that we care now?
The staggering thing is that thousands of Brits are prepared to rise up in protest at the behaviour of someone else's police force 5,000 miles away, but do sweet fk all when their own government makes houseguests illegal.
I don't think there has ever been a time in history when the entire world has lost its collective mind so thoroughly and for so long. The blame lies with social media and the astonishing percentage of people who for some inexplicable reason think it's a reliable source of information rather than just village gossip writ large. People now believe the crap they read on Facefk and ttter more than the evidence of their own eyes. Based on the public's reaction, you'd think we had unburied bodies piling up on street corners, and barrows going past with men crying out "bring out yer dead". But I still don't have a personal connection to anyone under 80 who's died. In my entire personal extended network there is one person I can name who's been hospitalised with Covid during the whole pandemic. And most of the over-80s I know or know of who've died recently didn't die of Covid. (Mostly cancer, as it happens, and of course that's a whole 'nother story).
I wonder how long they'll be able to milk it after the deaths caused by Covid have gone to zero? How long will we carry on counting "deaths with Covid19 appearing on the death certificate" bearing in mind this requires neither a positive test nor a doctor actually seeing the patient at any point? How long will they carry on bleating like Chicken Little about a second wave, even after no-one's getting ill?
Anyone want to bet that the "temporary" Coronavirus Regulations will still be in force next year, in five years, in ten years - like speed limits, that other "temporary experiment"? Anyone want to start a sweepstakes on how long it is before we lockdown again because someone in Guangzhou gets a sniffle? Because next time Britain won't want to be last to the party, will it? Do you see Shapps, or Patel, or that egregious Khan giving up the power they now have? Do you see Boris growing a backbone any time soon after his brush with death. I don't.