Allison Pearson writing for the Telegraph recounts her anti-lockdown views from early on, and how so many people who implemented draconian policies are now running from them and their own responsibility.
Cracks are even opening up in the wonkish façade of the Behavioural Insights Team, the so-called Nudge Unit, which bears much of the responsibility for terrifying the British people into complying with measures so cruel that I predict future generations will refuse to believe we ever allowed them to happen.
Honest, guv! For those who were part of the lockdown Resistance, it is gratifying, but also oddly unbearable, to see the people who attacked us admitting that the "Misinformation" we were accused of spreading 18 months ago turns out to be remarkably close to the truth.
Who can forget the immortal exchange between Sky News's Kay Burley and the then Health Secretary, Matt Hancock? Burley: "How long will the ban on casual sex last?" Hancock : "Sex is OK in an established relationship, but people need to be careful." Careful, unless you were the Secretary of State for Health, of course, in which case sex outside your established relationship was fine and dandy because, well, it was with a colleague.
"The one where you could work in a control room with multiple people for 12 hours then be breaking the law if you sat on a bench drinking coffee with one of them." 3.
"Not allowing people to sit on a park bench. My elderly aunt kept fit by walking her dog every day, but she needed to rest. Since that rule, she stopped going out. She went downhill and died last April." 8.
"Two people allowed to go for a walk on a golf course. If they took clubs and balls, it was a criminal offence." 14.
"People falling down the escalator on the Underground because they were frightened of touching the handrails - even though you couldn't get Covid from surfaces." 17.
"Testing of totally healthy people and making them stop work based on a questionable positive test result, when they have no symptoms, creating NHS staff shortages, cancelled operations. Things that, you know, actually kill people" 32.
"People in a Tier 3 area walking two minutes down the road for a pint in Tier 2." 44.
"The one-way systems around supermarkets that led to people being forced into parts they didn't want to be in, making them spend more time in the shop - while Covid simply circulated over the top of the shelves." 47.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Sunday, January 23, 2022
A Litany of Absurdity
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