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 ...
I have a friend who is a senior Colonel in the German Army. He tells me that they have canceled most gathering through the end of the summer. Really strange given that they are supposed to be capable of engaging even in NBC situations.
I've contended from the start that we should protect our old and sick but there is nothing to keep the rest of us from a normal life. . . including catching the flu and having a week getting over it.
What the hell do I know?
The panic is so great that the leaders MUST go along with it lest they be perceived as fools. Trump knows that this is a not an event of note, but it was politically imperative for him to treat it disproportionately. All the world’s leaders had to do the same.
“How much for one rib?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrpRenjEpo
Hitchens really zeros in on the level of disfunction in the UK:
... I did so out of an instinct that we were entering on the craziest period of our lives since the death of Princess Diana.
Mom: If your friends were going to jump off a bridge...
Mom was teaching good sense. Politicians don’t usually use what mom taught.
Dr Feguson is director of Saudi-funded J-IDEA group within Imperial College, UK? Who benefits if US economy tanks, and fracking stops?
Post full headlines...this ain’t your blog
There are all kinds of people that will benefit from the demise of America. I can even think of a few elected officials but when it comes down to the nut cutting, I see that we will be destroyed from within and the sheople will be none the aware
That is why I stay away from the insistent shelling.
My nephew made comment to me that the world has changed now that we have CV19 in our midst. I told him no it has not, it is your false impression that you picked up from the 24/7 news cycle on it. Nothing more
It has indeed, many businesses are closed.
Ain't that a change?
They are closed but not shuttered. In the grand scheme of things this is just a bump in the road not a life changing event.
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