Part 1 was published here yesterday.
How about non-NHS key workers? The building maintenance worker on call 24/7 who attends to, say, heating or electrical breakdowns in care homes – the very care homes, by the way, which are closed to visitors because of the virus. Power line workers in one area who have now been accommodated in a temporary ‘village’ still away from their homes and loved ones, on call in all weathers to keep the national grid operational? I don’t see anyone queuing up to provide them with free food parcels, free parking and the all the rest. Why is it that broadcast media personalities are counted along with many others who have ‘professions’, described as key workers? It’s not as if they are war correspondents in the front line on active service, is it?
I wonder how many people think that instead of broadcasting politically-motivated propaganda for one or other of the political parties, that they may like to do some investigative reporting and provide some evidenced facts, or report the misgivings of people who don’t actually like the hero worship of one particular section of the paid working population, don’t actually like the attack on freedom of speech, don’t actually like that the economy of the country and the lives of many are being destroyed by what looks like a clique of nicely-spoken unelected people pushing their political or scientific opinions for their own vested reasons.
People are getting fed up with the media, in many cases they don’t trust – and say so – either BBC or other broadcast news outlets. They certainly don’t all like or trust what is fed to them by the print media and now doubts are starting to form in many minds about the veracity of what is being fed to them by Downing Street. “You have done well,” they say to the public. What they actually mean is “you have followed our instructions, mainly out of fear rather than trust. You have allowed us to frighten you into giving us quite draconian powers,” which are only now starting to become apparent and legally challenged.
We now hear that Matt Hancock is considering the mandatory vaccination of everyone, following on from his much-criticised mass testing programme, which has according to many sources not been an unqualified success. Just how ordinary people self administer this without any training and in the confines of their car parked up in a queue with other concerned people is lost on me. Perhaps you and I have no problem scraping our tonsils without gagging or throwing up and then sticking the probe up our noses but many will and does this really provide reliable results? No doubt we shall soon find out.
Will you too be pleased to accept mass vaccination at a time and place to be decided by a public health official? What if you refuse? How will this mandatory obligation be enforced? By using some yet-to-be-proclaimed law which will be enforced by a uniformed regiment of public health officials yet to be recruited and trained, and who will be given powers of arrest or entry into private property (as given to for some unfathomable reason to PCSOs in Wales in pursuit of their social distancing duties). How will you prove that you have actually had the ‘jab’ after it has been administered if asked by presumably another army of yet-to-be-recruited, quickly trained, ‘community support’ staff? Perhaps we could have some sort of chip implanted at the same time, or for the sake of economy a tattoo on your arm (been done before!). Will older people or the disabled have a different serial number or chip to differentiate from more productive members of society? Perhaps to keep numbers down and manageable only people with birthdays with even numbers to be allowed out on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while those with odd dates will be allowed out on the other days. Technology is already in place and available.
But no worries, mate. Why would a Conservative government want to do such things? After all, we live in a free country, don’t we? We have a democratic right to free speech and freedom to travel. Well, look away from the main stream media for a moment and look to what we’ve all agreed to by acquiescence in the last couple of months, and ask why people have been arrested on suspicion of public order offences after producing a poster which many people would be hard pressed to say was anything but factual and truthful. Perhaps making you unemployed, unable or frightened to leave your home as many are, unable to meet your friends and family, and all the other restrictions that have been imposed on us is not problem for you yet, but who thought even as recently as two months ago that police would be given powers to stop you from going about your lawful activities? That fixed penalties would be issued to transgressors, that police would demand to see what purchases you have made in a shop or, much more worrying, that serious proposals would be made to confine people based on their age? More worryingly that NHS doctors would decide that some people should not be resuscitated and a so-called DNR notice would be initiated without the knowledge of either patient or their loved ones. Is this what we all want?
Later this week, we are going to have two minutes to remember the efforts of our forebears of 75 years ago. During those two minutes it may be a good idea if we consider just how far we have come and just where we are going.
Picture: Frankie Fouganthin / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Amazing Polly video see 24.52 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR8gw6GLwug
Side effects of some of these peoples’ vaccines.
“Perhaps we could have some sort of chip implanted at the same time”.
I’m sure that has been thought of by TPTB and may well be under active consideration. I certainly won’t be presenting myself for one.
Well Norman; some very interesting points that you have made, and you have raised the fear factor ! – Not wishing to be rude, but have you ever thought of being a ‘Journalist’ as you seem well able to qualify for today’s MSM !
If or when an anti virus jab is made, we will be expecting much more fear again, as in, – Do you wish to take the risk of death from this virus, or will you take the jab and live ? – I don’t think enforcement will be necessary at all !
One memory comes to my mind. – As a kid I fell of my bike and got a lot of road in my knee, and still have the scar. – Doctor gave an antitoxin jab and it nearly killed me as my body took fever to get rid of it, and the Doctor called to check on me morning and evening ! – I was one of a small minority that couldn’t take that antitoxin. – So what about this virus jab, with no past record known due to it being new ?
Now Norman, that’s the way to raise the fear factor !
So Norman.
In what way does your career in marketing and communications qualify you to comment on how the pandemic is being handled?
Your opinion is in fact worthless.
I would far sooner follow the advice of epidemiologists and clinicians that yours.
We will only know if the correct decisions were made five or ten years down the road.
Hindsight is a jolly fine thing.
Shame the Government largely seem to be following the advice of a mathematical modeller with a Physics degree then. Does the economy not matter in a this at all then? I’d like more input from people with a business background like Norman in the mix myself.
“We will only know if the correct decisions were made five or ten years down the road”
Phew!!!! That will be music to the ears of the Johnson government and their scientific advisors.
Well Harry, you are welcome to do that but do not expect all to be sheeple. I for instance would never take the flu jab as it is some unknown git’s best guess
But we are not following the advice of epidemiologists and clinicians are we. They are being shut out in favour of a Bill Gates funded College with a disastrous record of computer modelling. Bill Gates who vaccinated thousand of children in India and paralysed them. We now know he had added a sterilisation drug to the vaccine, but won’t take responsibility because he is a globalist with all the protection of that communist who heads up the WHO.
Tattoo is closed
At least 25% of us, based on studies in other places (California, Italy, China, Germany, NY state etc.) , have already developed antibodies to the virus the hard way by getting and recovering (most via asymptomatic or mild infections) . in which case why on earth would they need to be vaccinated? As for the rest, in the unlikely event a vaccine is found the Government would be genocidally reckless to foist it on people without thorough human trials – this is not a life or death Black Death scenario that would justify any corner cutting. The virus is so contagious it is likely to spread further even with the lockdown so getting us closer to natural herd immunity like the lucky Swedes.
“the Government would be genocidally reckless to foist it on people without thorough human trials”
They are doing EXACTLY THAT with 5G and hardly anyone is making a squeak about it. In my opinion they are doing it just because everyone is busy worrying about CV-19. I don’t believe in coincidence. Do you?
“The virus is so contagious”. Who says so? All of us know that there are lies, damned lies, and then statistics yet on this occasion we believe we are being told the truth. WHY?
PEOPLE TELL LIES
PEOPLE TELL LIES
PEOPLE TELL LIES
A timely and necessary warning, Norman. I have been waiting for a cogent reason for the 24/7 wall to wall propaganda about the chinese virus from left liberal activists dusguised as journalists. I have been waiting for a cogent reason for all the contradictions and distortions of govt policy and house arrest, while airports disgorge 100.000 unchecked passengers and 1000+ illegals are helped ashore and allowed to disappear. Could it be to soften us up for tracing apps on our phones, compulsory vaccination, immunity passports to be allowed out to do our business, i.e. total state control of all those compliant or desperate enough to give in? The picture above your article is a chilling reminder of 75 years’ ago. Who said it could never happen in England!
”tracing apps on our phones”
Just tell them you haven’t got a mobile phone, let alone a ‘well dressed phone’.
My bank tried it on me. I asked when they were going to give me a ‘well dressed phone’ and pay for it. Derr – ”customer says no – does not compute . . .”.
Follow up comment what are you going to demand next? That I drive a Jaguar motor car? Derr again!
Let’s hear no more of this.
A worrying situation indeed and nobody seems to bat an eyelid and ask questions. The exception of course one person is Nigel Farage. We need to wake up, and pretty smartly at that…..
The introduction of “vaccination passports” has been mooted in the media, whereby only those inoculated with a vaccine chosen by the government will be allowed to travel. If that comes to be, then those who have invested in the chosen vaccine will make huge profits from their investment. And it will be in their interest to suppress any adequate alternative to their vaccine.