On twitter I asked you a simple question yesterdayâŚ
âWhat is going on?â
Over 400 of your busy brains responded, noting the change in tone on the TV; broadcasters back-peddling (more of that in my next postâŚ) and one poor woman who simplistically stated, âthe vaccines are workingâ and got 400 more of you involved in a particularly hilarious thread responding to that rather shallow conclusion.Â
You mentioned the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab, Tony Blair, and The New World Order, all of which have not suddenly disappeared into the oceans along with 3.4 billion face masks each day.
Many on my side of the fence (who believe the covid response has been criminally disproportionate to the threat of a virus with a 99.8% survival rate), are currently sitting somewhere on a spectrum that starts with relief, passes through suspicion, and ends with throwing a plate across the room.
As weâve been in an abusive relationship with this government (and the media) for almost two years, this is a text book mindset for the victim who has no choice but to take more cruelty⌠but she is still in 'fight or flight' with one foot out of the door, ready to run.
I suspect we are in a moment of respite, the type that skilled bullies provide so that the bruises heal and optimism builds. We are letting our guard down. In England, at least, we can smell freedom wafting in on the breeze: no more silly masks, no more judgemental neighbours, and no more painful lockdowns.
But I canât shake the feeling that we should still be alert to an unexpected body blow. None of this is over until The Coronavirus Act 2020 is repealed and all references to vaccine passports are consigned to a chapter in history which will read like satire.
Of course, Boris Johnson in the UK and Joe Biden in the US are experiencing the sort of popularity plummets which may demand they take immediate action to curry favour with their citizens. Managing a âdeadlyâ virus when people are terrified is easy â just make them feel safe with statements such as, âdonât worry yourself with facts sugar-titsâ which Sajid Javid said many times on News At Ten.
But steering this same ship when the population are awakening from their slumber is a different challenge altogether. Millions of people who had covid and - much to their surprise â survived... have now realised that they cancelled their wedding, missed funerals and didnât hug a new-born grandchild because of a head cold. Despite the fact that even Chris Whitty said in spring 2020 this would be âFor the vast majority of people this will be a mild flu-like illness.â
The survivors are wide-eyed, eagerly asking questions with the euphoria of those in the âsecond-chance clubâ â an alliance normally reserved for the few who walk away from up-turned cars or half-opened parachutes â but which now includes millions of all ages, energised and ready to punch through the wall of any ongoing restrictions. Suddenly, to some leaders, being popular has become more bloody urgent than âsaving lives.â
As todayâs protest in London will demonstrate, thousands of people are not stupid. They too know that this is not over and they are not yet ready to let this government off the hook - they are currently cradling what is left of democracy in one sweaty palm whilst pleasuring themselves with the other.
As per Boris Johnsonâs directive, organisations can still âchoose to use the NHS Covid Pass voluntarily,â leaving the door open for nervous CEOs, insurance companies and lawyers to decide whether we can go for a pizza without revealing medical information.
The technological infrastructure designed to monitor, control, and thereby dictate our lives is now in place. Iâm terrified by the notion that we must exist at the behest of QR Codes tied to our âhealthâ status thereby yoking us to the whims of profit-driven pharmaceutical companies forever. This is before we have even contemplated having such tech tied to our âsocialâ decisions thus morphing us into China West.
This isnât because Iâm a luddite, (although donât get me started on the complexity of my TV remote controls) but instead itâs because I am deeply suspicious of the silence surrounding this monumental change to our lives. This is exactly the type of âsocial issueâ that would normally be debated on daytime chat shows. âShould we have a sugar tax? Should we fly less? Should we be unable to leave home without a phone so that we can show our medical details to a car park attendant?â It's got Susanna Reid in a red dress written all over it. Â So why the silence?
Only a naĂŻve fool would think that the govt spent ÂŁ37billion on a Track and Trace system that would be switched off once the virus was âunder control.â
My concern is that once we put our guard down along comes the next âthreatâ in the form of another manufactured virus or random risk to life⌠the Vax Pass/Biometric Digital ID becomes the silver bullet for preventing full-scale lockdowns. Bill Gates, in a Twitter conversation with Prof Devi Sridhar only last week, was already laying the foundations as they talked about how the world could âcome togetherâ to prevent the ânext pandemicâ.Â
âJust look how well you did with Covid!â those in power will declare as they pat our heads and remind us that we took a vaccine âfor other peopleâ and now must do the same for, say, climate change.
MPs will rejoice at the brilliant foresight which allowed them to create such a superb system!
The âDigital IDâ will âprotect usâ from the next virus by knowing if we have had another âvaccineâ or shield us from climate change via carbon footprint management (âSorry Ms Turner you canât drive the kids to swimming club today as you have already exceeded your weekly mileage allowance. Itâs not for you remember â itâs to help othersâ).
Do you remember where you were when you learnt that Public Health England had morphed into The âUK Health and Security Agencyâ with absolutely no fanfare? I will never forget. I was on the downstairs loo flicking through my WhatsApp messages and remember thinking âIâm sorry what??â
Health â fine.
Security â fine.
But a government agency that unites the two? In what venn diagram of threat are our health and our security simultaneously at risk? Unless the threat comes from the State itself, mandating we take a drug we donât feel we need?⌠Only if the âunvaccinatedâ (or those who reject any medical procedure) are considered a risk to national âsecurityâ, does their âhealthâ become a matter of concern.
So do not be lulled into thinking that by reducing covid measures now, the sneaky, self-serving bastards at Whitehall are acting in your best long-term interests. Never forget that the main protagonists in this drama will walk off into a Caribbean sunset with sufficient money in pharmaceutical shares to ensure that their grandchildrenâs grandchildren never have to work an honest day in their lives. Their wealth will make the suitcases they have already shoved full of money via PPI contracts to family members look like loose change.
And what of our inexorable slide towards a cashless economy? Shops which rejected cash are not suddenly going to start accepting it once again. So, can we please have a public debate about the pros and cons of that monumental change? I know several angry hairdressers who have things to say about how badly a lack of tips has hit their pocket.
Iâm not yet ready to concede that we were wrong to speculate that the technocrats were exploiting the âcrisisâ to build their power base.
As with any invasion, the perpetrators will shoot for a larger dimension knowing they will feel satisfied with whatever power grab they achieve. If they only manage 30% of their initial goal, they are still 30% better off than they were before. Even the biggest banquets can only be consumed one course at a time.
It strikes me that the main reason we are all swimming in a sea of uncertainty is because no single Cabinet member, MP, Medical Officer, or Technocrat have outlined the metric that would signal the end of the pandemic. And â crucially â not one journalist has asked them.
Cast your mind back to Boris Johnson intoning that deaths must be brought down âto save the NHSâ and to âflatten the curveâ⌠all wonderfully vague notions: the type of obfuscation required by men who are shagging about behind their wivesâ backs and must develop ways of blurring the truth without encouraging too much interrogation.
We then witnessed an obsession with case numbers in a âTestdemicâ of unfathomable proportions. Next the focus switched to the number of vaccinated over 70s and â15 million jabs to freedom.â After jabs for the under 70s, we started counting those rolled out to the under 50s and so on until we slipped down and down to the under 18s and although the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said that they could see no clear benefit, the sociopathic Chief Medical Officers explained that the injections were for teenagersâ âmental healthâ in keeping schools open.
Those in power repeatedly changed the goalposts to keep us confused and easily manipulated. I remember asking on TV, âWhat is the metric that we use for deciding what success looks like? What is the measure we need to aim for?â But fellow panellists and TV hosts just blinked as though they didnât understand the question and how could I possibly ask such a heartless thing when blue tick nurses were posting pictures of rashes caused by their face masks?
But, maybe we have got this all wrong? I dearly hope so.
In which case we have to work out who to forgive and what to forget⌠and that is for next timeâŚ
I remain highly sceptical and will keep a close eye on all the data available! Something strange has just happened, whatever it is!
You are correct when you say "Times are tough for writers and broadcasters who have swum against the tide of Covid propaganda" so if you could have a look at my substack that would be awesome!
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/