Government says No


 

Here are just some of the things that you either can’t do in much of Britain at the moment (can we retire the ‘Great’ forever, please), or only in a very limited way, or only with extreme difficulty.

So government says No to:


Meeting in groups of more than six

Mixing with other families

Hugging your grandparents or, in some cases, parents

Drinking in a pub or eating in a restaurant after 10pm

Attending spectator sports like football and rugby, except in very small numbers

Seeing a GP face-to-face

Going into a shop, gallery, cinema or many other places without a mask

Getting a dentist appointment

Having casual sex

Going on a foreign holiday

Going to a funeral

Going to a wedding

Accessing content online that does not fit with the government narrative 

Planning Christmas, or any travel anywhere

ENJOYING LIFE


The notion of personal choice and responsibility have gone the way of the Dodo. Remember that Covid deaths in this country peaked on April 8 and we were told we had to have a three-week lockdown to ‘protect the NHS’. What we now have is an out of control, sinister and authoritarian government that can’t admit its mistakes and is trampling on the minds and jobs of millions of people in order to… to do what? Give an 86-year-old a couple more months of life? 


Remember that this is a virus that 99.9% of people recover from; the average age of someone dying with it is 82; one CDC report suggested that 94% of those who had Covid on their death certificate died from co-morbidities.


This is an off the scale scandal, the most disgusting, dumb course of action ever taken by a UK government. Johnson, Hancock, Gove, Cummings - your names will live in infamy and you will never be forgiven for this. Obviously the court jester of Downing Street believes that he has four years before an election so his cataclysmic mismanagement of this crisis will be forgotten by then (if he is indeed still PM), but I can assure you prime minister, it won’t be. It won’t be.

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