Posted on 01/14/2023 2:15:41 PM PST by Rummyfan
Maybe the kids are alright. At least, some of them seem have absorbed an essential lesson from the pandemic and its handling: The people who purport to rule us are idiots, as well as crooks, liars, and generally a sorry lot.
Many sectors of the Internet were talking recently about an essay by 14 year old British school boy Jack Watson, who writes that the chief lesson he took from the pandemic was that the people who make the rules don’t follow them.
With admirable concision, Watson dissects the British response to the pandemic, which parallels our own, and that of most of the developed world. He notes that after a couple of months of lockdowns, cases were still rising, and yet the rulers didn’t change their approach. He writes: “This lockdown they put us in clearly didn’t work and I don’t know how they had the audacity to tell us where we could and couldn’t go. I couldn’t see family members for months. I used to help my mum do the weekly shop for my grandma and when I dropped it off for her I couldn’t even give her a hug. I had other family members who I didn’t see properly until early last year. . . . I honestly don’t know what they were thinking and I hope the authorities realise the many lives they have impacted and ruined.”
Online learning, he observes, was more online than about learning. “From a child’s point of view, this type of teaching is useless; most of the links I was sent didn’t work and I kept getting kicked out of the calls (we were using Teams).”
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Why the political class feels this way is a question for another column, but look at what they’ve done over the past few years and ask yourself: If they hated us, what would they do differently?
but look at what they’ve done over the past few years and ask yourself: If they hated us, what would they do differently.
THAT is a great question!
“ …and I hope the authorities realise the many lives they have impacted and ruined.”
Realize? Immaterial. They don’t care. They’re the boss. You’re the peon. They’ll care only if you drag them out of their office, grab them at the scruff of their neck and smash their face on the street. As bright as this 14 yr old is he probably doesn’t yet realize the above.
This kid has got some great grey cells!
Why we don’t go Nuremberg and Ceausescu on those folks, I will never understand.
Yes, but execution is almost too kind for the scum that imposed these lockdowns, mask mandates, vax mandates, etc.
Oh it’s coming. Every day we see them living by one set of laws while imposing another set on us. And every day we examples of their corruption and incompetence and malice.
Our local Home Depot would only allow 38 shoppers in an anytime. It was monitored by two employees at the entrance, one near the check out, and one at the exit. south of us 20 miles at the Menards, a similar size store: 480. It was worth the drive rather than stand in the rail. Don’t get me wrong. They were Nazi to the customers.
“ Don’t get me wrong. They were Nazi to the customers.”
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But they were “only following orders”, don’t cha know.
I don’t suppose there’s a link to the actual essay?
“What, you want it spoon-fed to you?”
If it’s important enough to write an article about it, I expect at least a footnote link.
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