[quote MercyBooth]@msbehavin Whats your opinion on the blaming of the public some NHS workers have been doing on Twitter?[/quote]
I was very sorry to read of your personal situation @MercyBooth. I hope that you have a support network because I understand fully how challenging the lockdown has been for so many. As a teacher I've seen so much suffering going on behind closed doors. The psychological impact of lockdown is going to be felt for years to come. People who dismiss the lockdown as 'just staying at home watching Netflix FFS' have absolutely no idea what hell lies in some people's homes.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - this lockdown serves many purposes. Divide and conquer being one of them. Every day I see one of the government endorsed guilt trip posters - 'look them in the eye and tell them you stayed at home' or whatever nonsense the slogan says - as I walk past on my way to the petri dish that is my classroom. How is it my personal fault that someone else is dying of a virus I may have inadvertently passed on to them in the supermarket, having caught it from a child in the classroom I'm forced to work in with no protection other than a bit of cloth on my face? What kind of logic is this?
NHS workers crying into their cameraphones saying we're all murderers and have blood on our hands, for going to the supermarket, which we can't help doing, because most of us can't get an online shop delivered for love nor money.
It's all part of the very successful media campaign supported by the government, who pays behavioural psychologists to help them understand how to manipulate us, I might add - to get us turning on one another in our rush to apportion blame rather than looking to them and how they and their predecessors have systematically dismantled our infrastructure of public services over the past decades, resulting in us having a healthcare service that collapses every winter, a population of unhealthy people due to a lack of investment in said healthcare services, one in three children living in poverty in our capital city and people queueing outside food banks because they can't afford to feed themselves and their children.
As long as most of the masses continue to believe that the reason we're in this mess is because Doris next door had her granddaughter round for tea last week, then we're all on our way to hell in a handcart.
The easiest way to take power from people is to convince them that their neighbours are the enemy. And for those of you who think I'm just talking nonsense, and that the government is looking out for us, and that it wouldn't be possible to take away people's civil rights in a democracy, I simply point you to Germany in 1933. They didn't see it coming either.