Part 1 of Back where we started was published here yesterday

 

But then you may also ask why all sorts of ‘officials’ are permitted to parade around our towns and cities, in police-like uniforms deliberately designed for what purpose.  All of this is immaterial of course, as it’s a symptom of the disease not the cause. The cause is an establishment following its own plan, which is to deceive the public into believing that all is well and everything is under control.  It worked too, up to a point, and that point was reached in March of this year, when, like our 1930s generation found to their horror in 1940, things were not as they seemed.

As summer 2020 draws to a close, we have now reached the point where the indecision, incompetence and refusal of government to lead and make decisions is starting to show.

The public sector, protected by furlough payments, is reluctant to return to work, teachers are reluctant to return to schools, the NHS is still basking in the adoration of the clapping classes, although that is also now starting to wear thin as the enormity of avoidable deaths sinks in to a population long accustomed to having instant access to their doctors’ accident and emergency departments and is now starting to question why many hospitals including the commandeered private sector are still not operating normally.  Surely ‘systems’ have been put in place now, and should be tried and tested; surely we have fleets of emergency ambulances with trained staff waiting in the wings to deal with any emergency, not just virus patients.  Are not the ‘Nightingale hospitals’ ready to be activated at short notice. Why then all the delays and obfuscation on virus and infection rates. Is there something that we are not being told?  You may well ask.

I had an interesting conversation with a colleague in Mexico this week, who asked how things were going in the UK.  I said that, until last week, it seemed that everything was under control, apart from the fact that face coverings must now be worn on transport and in shops, but like everything else here during the crisis, there are so many anomalies around the new laws and guidelines.  Many people are worried about the impact of government interference on freedoms causing much controversy and anger among various sections of the population.

It’s all been very badly handled according to the anti-government media.  The problem seems to be everyone’s an expert on any science you can name and the numbers of experts we have with first-hand experience of combating virus infections is astounding.  Many others have in-depth knowledge of statistics and computer-driven modelling, emergency public health planning and all the rest.  Who needs SAGE when we have all this expertise free and on demand in the comments sections of various newspapers?

It seems that much of the western world is following the same ‘system’ to control the virus and reset society and the world’s economy, to what end is not yet apparent, but look beneath the surface, follow the trails and you will find the world of finance, bankers, big business, big pharma and various players pushing whatever agenda they want to see imposed on the “new world” order.  To our complicit and supine media the ‘new normal’ is interesting – how often the words ‘new world order’, ‘new normal’, ‘re-set’ and ‘we are all in this together’ appear in articles written by these new age journalists, the ones that do little real research  and very rarely leave the ‘safe space’ of their office to go out and investigate and speak to the people in the street.

But back to my friend in Mexico, how are things there? I asked.  The area where she lives had ‘lockdown’ imposed and policed from early March, so, if you like, we were behind them.  Many victims were elderly with other health problems reported.  As here most people at least paid lip service to all the restrictions which were eventually lifted and as here some sort of normality returned, most people back at work and so on.  People she said were often ignoring social distance requirements, but people were concerned at the rising number of deaths and the fact that children can be a carriers and suffer from the disease.  Reports in the USA show that although children suffer less as a result of infection, a small number have become quite ill, but less than 1% of all deaths have been under 18 years of age.

Judging by the scenes at holiday destinations in the UK this weekend as the nation enjoys Mediterranean weather, most seem to have put the virus to the back of their minds.  NHS staff have taken to the streets demonstrating their anger at not being included in the latest public sector pay rise and it’s reported in the regional news outlets that a march in support of Black Lives Matter is soon to be held in the West Midlands.

As the summer comes to an end, across the world the virus is still in evidence with many spikes in various areas here in the UK.   We are still seeing confusing messages from government, central and local, much of the population relaxing in the sun will be the very same people refusing to return to work.  It seems that many do not realise the impact that the virus has had on the economy or our way of life.  There is need for a reset and an evaluation of what has been done well and that which needs to be re-thought;  there has to be a balance between providing a covid-free environment, as far as that can be achieved, and restarting the economy and normal national life.

As yet there are no predictions as to how or when this pandemic will end.  What is clear, though, is that the political backbone and resolve has to be found to address the situation, which is not going to go away anytime soon and may well get a lot worse before things get better.

Sitting in the sun on furlough pay waiting for it all to go away is not going to be an option as the establishment and the public eventually saw in those far off August days of 1940.  What happens on the health, social and economic fronts in the next six weeks is going to crucial to all our futures, the rest of the world is buckling down and getting on with it, just as we once did.  Do we still have what it takes?  We shall soon find out.

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