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There's powerful evidence this Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy...
DailyMail.com ^ | 3/28/2020 | Peter Hitchens

Posted on 03/29/2020 3:06:21 AM PDT by Nextrush

As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief-as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would. I also felt terribly alone.

You would not have known, from anything broadcast that night or printed the following day, that anyone was unhappy with these events. But they were.

So above all things this week, I would like to thank all the kind, perplexed people who have got in touch with me by so many means, to say they share my doubts about the Government's handling of Covid-19.....

I now suspect this dark season might get still worse before we see the clear, calm light of reason again. The greater the mistake we have made, the less willing we are to admit it or correct it. This is why I greatly fear worse developments in the coming few days....

So do not be surprised by anything. After last week can we rule anything out? This new Stasi society has a horrifying level of support. Humberside police are already advertising a 'portal" for citizens to inform on their neighbors for breaking the 'social distancing' rules.

If you don't think they have any takers, think again. Northamptonshire police have revealed that their control room has had 'dozens and dozens' of calls about people ignoring the order.....

Meanwhile, our economy is still crippled, and the overpraised Chancellor Rishi Sunak, like some beaming Dr. Feelgood with a case full of dodgy stimulants, seeks to soothe the pain by huge injections of funny money.

He will get this back from us as soon as we are allowed to go out again. Just wait till you get the bill, in increased taxes, inflation and devastated savings.

It ought not to be so. In fact....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; coronavirus; covid19; ellipses; headlinestump; neverrush; notnewtomsawyer; notrush; sentencestumps; stumpy
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1 posted on 03/29/2020 3:06:21 AM PDT by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Good grief. And there are plenty squealing already.

Now what country was it where squealing, even on your parents, was considered a virtue? When was that and where was it?

Well there are more than a couple of answers to that. And they were all bad.


2 posted on 03/29/2020 3:13:27 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Nextrush

Daily Mail should have thought of that weeks ago when they were all to happy to whip up panic.

Now they dont like the consequences?


3 posted on 03/29/2020 3:17:36 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Nextrush; Admin Moderator
There's powerful evidence this Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy...

You don't have to excerpt the headline, genius!

You used ellipaes to shorten it by one word??

Good grief!

Now we have headline stumps, as well as sentence stumps within the article stump.

PETER HITCHENS: There’s powerful evidence this Great Panic is foolish, yet our freedom is still broken and our economy crippled

4 posted on 03/29/2020 3:19:22 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: VanDeKoik

Daily Mail is pure trash.
Comments section heavily anti US/Trump.


5 posted on 03/29/2020 3:24:45 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Nextrush

Yep and the sheople fell right in line like good lil subjects. Aiding and abetting the FNM and our government


6 posted on 03/29/2020 3:25:14 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Larry Lucido

“Now we have headline stumps, as well as sentence stumps within the article stump.”

Is this better or worse than muffin stumps?? Asking for a friend named Elaine...;-)


7 posted on 03/29/2020 3:26:17 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45
These sentences are just stumps! Where are the rest of these sentences? Who ate the rest of these sentences?

Even an excerpt should have a full headline and full sentences.

Why don't you (NotRush) just post some lobster shells and chicken wings??

8 posted on 03/29/2020 3:29:19 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Dude, chill out and have another beer.


9 posted on 03/29/2020 3:50:22 AM PDT by Liberal Anti Venom (In a free society, the last refuge of a moron is tyranny. ~Jeremy Egerer~)
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To: Larry Lucido

Geez, dude, did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed.


10 posted on 03/29/2020 3:58:48 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: yldstrk

thank you Peter Hitchens.

people have lost their senses.

hopefully, they will return.


11 posted on 03/29/2020 4:14:23 AM PDT by MAGAthon ( Fauc)
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To: MAGAthon

more correctly, I should have typed:

people have lost leave of their senses.


12 posted on 03/29/2020 4:17:00 AM PDT by MAGAthon ( Fauc)
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To: Nextrush

Many people are weak morally. They want to be told what they have to do instead of taking responsibility for their lives, because then they are not responsible for the results of their lives.

The disease may be real, but it is not any more serious than many that have happened in the last few decades or years, and this is a fake crisis IMHO.


13 posted on 03/29/2020 4:46:51 AM PDT by Wildbill22 ( They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton William Abrams)
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To: MAGAthon

Nice metaphysical concept there...


14 posted on 03/29/2020 4:48:21 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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To: Nextrush

We have witnessed in the passed years democrats pure emotional response syndrome that has overrun any kind of sane factual comprehension they may have had in the past(which I doubt). The scumedia fan the hysteria, the rat leaders point fingers, lay blame, and demand so no matter what solution are put into place or suggested nothing is good. They would be more comfortable with an Obama or Hillary in charge saying don’t worry child your dying but things will get better


15 posted on 03/29/2020 4:49:25 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Nextrush

bump


16 posted on 03/29/2020 4:58:43 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: Nextrush
There's powerful evidence...

Then show it to us!

17 posted on 03/29/2020 5:36:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: dp0622
Northamptonshire police have revealed that their control room has had 'dozens and dozens' of calls about people ignoring the order.....



One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...

18 posted on 03/29/2020 5:39:53 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Humberside police are already advertising a 'portal" for citizens to inform on their neighbors for breaking the 'social distancing' rules.



19 posted on 03/29/2020 5:42:34 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Nextrush

I live in central Virginia and visited a couple of local rescue squads/engine companies. They told me their calls for aid/transport to hospital is about the same as it always was/is. Ask your local rescue squad, they will give you the real scoop.


20 posted on 03/29/2020 5:44:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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