Oh, Fer Gawd’s Sake!

May 10, 2020 Longrider Civil Liberties, General News, General Rants, misanthropy, Political 11

Despite the evidence they still persist.

Boris Johnson is facing a moment of truth in the coronavirus crisis today as he prepares to tweak draconian lockdown rules – amid warnings 100,000 Britons could die by the end of the year if he gets it wrong.

Christ almighty! Have they learned nothing from this clusterfuck? Nothing at all? Look at Sweden, where the death figures are currently 3,220 without a full lock-down. Ours, with a lock-down are currently pushing 32,000. Worldwide deaths are at 279,313. That’s assuming that the counting isn’t fraudulent – which, frankly, I don’t believe. I certainly don’t believe the “experts'” hysteria over a tripling of the death rate because they have demonstrated that they are unreliable. Indeed, given the flawed modelling by charlatans such as Neil Ferguson and the mountebanks at Imperial College, I no longer believe anything they say, let alone the apocalyptic predictions from their fag-packet calculations.

The focus will also shift to getting businesses up and running where possible, with detailed guidance for firms on how they should operate, and garden centres allowed to open from Wednesday where two-metre ‘social distancing’ rules can be put in place. Travellers and shoppers could be urged to wear face coverings, as has already happened in Scotland.

About bloody time. However, I will not be wearing any masks unless forced to. See Leggy for reasons why I will eschew them. Also bear in mind that the two-metre rule was simply plucked from someone’s arsehole and has no scientific basis whatsoever.

Mr Johnson today said mountaineers know that coming down from the peak is ‘the most dangerous bit’.

‘That’s when you’re liable to be overconfident and make mistakes. You have very few options on the climb up — but it’s on the descent you have to make sure you don’t run too fast, lose control and stumble,’ he told the Sun on Sunday.

The peak was April 8th. Meanwhile every day we remain in lock-down, we are pissing billions away from the economy and despite the vacuous cries of “money before people” from the hard-of-thinking fuckwits on Farcebook, the economy is people’s lives, livelihoods and the ability to function, to put food on the table, to keep a roof over our heads and, not least, this is how the *great and glorious NHS that the performing seals clap for every Thursday evening is fucking paid for. Without a functioning economy, there will be rather more lives lost.

We need to go back to work and the lock-down lifted. Now.

*Before anyone comments, I was in full sarcasm mode here.

11 Comments

  1. The Sunday Times has the same story, front page. The majority don’t view these opinions through a common-sense-filter. They go straight from reading them to believing them, missing out any intermediate thought processes. It’s all part of the ongoing fear-mongering.

    I’ve seen that the government handouts, plus the lost tax revenue, plus other knock-on costs, is likely about £6b per day.

    I read that the Swedish health bloke has said ‘try and keep an arms length from other people, but if you can’t just use your common sense and do the best you can’. How refreshing, and sensible: encouraging them to carry on with normal life.

    • I read that the Swedish health bloke has said ‘try and keep an arms length from other people,

      Commonsense advice, but even if the 2mtr rule was scrapped, and changed to 1mtr (The WHO guideline), it would make a vast difference. I think the majority of firms could operate without too much difficulty using that figure, whereas 2mtrs effectively puts whole swathes of the economy out of bounds.

      • I fully agree. 2m is a real business-damaging requirement. Just when they need a few problems as possible…

  2. Near me we have a convenience store and a filling station that has a grocery store attached. The convenience store is limiting how many people they let in at once and always has a small queue outside. The filling station just let’s people go straight in and has no problems with everyone keeping to a “safe” distance apart. Guess where I go to get my stuff?

    • Johnston’s waffle throwing a few bones to public:
      – You may sunbathe, play sport with family, sit on a bench…

      Exactly as predicted in this Excellent article
      – The Grand Delusion Bail-out billions shield us from the reality – our economy is in tatters. Boris MUST [end lockdown] stop us sinking into a new depression; 9 May
      – Dr John Lee is a former Professor of Pathology at Hull York Medical School and a recently retired NHS consultant
      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8302055/

  4. The Sun is saying that 90% of their readers did not want Boris to lift the lockdown (what never!).

    If it is acceptably safe to shop in Sainsbury’s, why not Next or TK Max? Same goes for small High St. retailers who could do as Pharmcies have been doing, letting in one customer at a time.

    On a positive note we were early advised that parking enforcement would be much reduced and I have not seen a single Traffic Warden (?) in 6-7 weeks. With almost everyone at home Parking Catastrophe might have been expected but no; no double parking, none on yellow lines, always find a space within a reasonable distance of home. Makes you wander what parking enforcement is for.

    • Makes you wander what parking enforcement is for

      To fill council coffers, of course! At the moment, and without the usual guaranteed supply of targets, perhaps the mandarins have realised they stand to make a loss, until things get back to normal – if they ever do…

  5. O/T concerns are aired about how much education the children have missed, so why not extend the late Summer half term for 4 weeks since it won’t be spoiling anybody’s holidays and they have spent enough time at home already.
    Do you think the Teachers Unions would embrace such a bold move??

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