Part 1 was published here yesterday.
Jago and Ami are all for this of course, having brought their children up to believe everything that St. Greta has told them about saving the planet and all that. Jago can easily work from home as he is a web-designer and Ami could too at a pinch, working as she does as a media analyst for a glossy called The Organisational Management Times. The only thing stopping them is, of course, the distractions caused by the children, who will become bored with watching films on Netflix and the like and chatting on social media with their friends. There is, after all, only so much you can upload to Facebook or Instagram when you are stuck in the executive style detached country ‘home’ in the middle of some estate, and the garden is so small that they can’t play croquet on the lawn let alone exercise Honey the golden retriever. Not of course that you would want to play anything on the lawn after Honey has been using it for exercise and other natural inclinations for the last three weeks, as obviously we can’t take her to the common for fear of meeting other people, and we are so into keeping our social distance; not that that is so hard to be honest as we wouldn’t know our neighbours if we met them in an upmarket supermarket queue.
So what it seems to me we have actively built here is a more divided Britain. The remainers and their friends in the BBC and that other lot see this as an ideal way in which to attack Boris, Brexit and those uneducated people who don’t realise how important it is to wash your hands (so thick in fact that they can’t see how important it is to stay in, isolate and work from home as we all must do if the social order and the economy is to survive).
Mungo had a total shock this morning when, being woken at an ungodly hour by noises outside, he found to his horror that the environmental collection officers had ignored the advice in the press and were NOT working from home. To make matters worse the neighbours, the ones who have real jobs and actually do something rather than be tied to a computer in a modern office block, complete with non-specific gender coffee machines and toilets, were actually going to work. How dare they?!
Walking up to the village shop (as I always do being mindful of my carbon footprint) to buy some produce – either grown locally or imported from someplace where it had been produced by people earning a fraction of the UK’s minimum wage and who do not produce any carbon footprint at all, I was struck by the number of people who were obviously going to work, although of late there do seem to be fewer people driving cars in their hi-viz yellow jackets, and in town the number of people wandering around window shopping or buying breakfasts and morning coffee appeared much reduced.
It would seem that many of the retired and unemployed have taken the advice of the media and are staying at home. This will of course have a severe knock-on effect on the local economy, let alone the national one, but hey, as Mungo says, it’s an ill wind etc. and some will profit, (as one 13-year-old did who made all of £9 selling a shot of hand sanitiser for 50p a shot, much to the annoyance of his school who, rather than applaud his ‘get up and go’, sent him home for apparently breaking school rules).
Yes, they will, but although Mungo thinks others will suffer but not him, he may well be in for a severe shock. If this gets as bad as the media hopes (for that is how it seems), they may like to give a thought to how those who are not on the payroll of local and central government, NGOs and the charities will fare. The panic they have induced will have a severe effect, not only on the many small business people operating as sole owner workers, many of whom are only a month or two at best away from financial hardship, but also how services they take for granted are going to work or cope. The courier that delivers all that stuff from Amazon, home deliveries of food from the supermarket, the plumber who arrives to fix the leak that Ami has no clue how to fix, or what happens if the fuel tanker drivers are off sick or the emergency services, including hospitals, suddenly find their staff are off sick.
Then Jago you are going to find that life as a well-off millennial is likely to change, as one Jezza said recently, ‘forever’. Then you may find Ami that virtue signalling and worrying about the future ruined for you by older people as they have caused all the worlds woes, is not enough, you may well have to learn to cope with a much reduced standard of living, what emote will you use then on your social media? It won’t be woke because, as we have seen already, it’s an illusion and a dream and it will come back and bite you, just as the older more experienced people in the community warned.
Goodness me, it seems that world is not that benign place we, in our ever-increasing standards of living, thought it was. When ‘push comes to shove’ we’ve found – as other generations have – that an event can change your life. It seems now that ‘open borders’ and offshoring industry and commerce may, for the many, be not be such a good idea, and that we quite like our governments making decisions on our behalf.
We are, according to the last prime minister, part of an ‘international rules-based society’, and according to the one before that ‘all in it together’. The next few weeks are going to show us in real time how that will work out, and I have to say, from where we are now that does not look promising.
” We are on the verge of a global transformation….All we need is the right major crisis and all nations will accept the New World Order……David Rockefeller…(23/09/1994 )…..the plan has been in operation for well over a hundred years ……
We are told that covid-19 is a very contagious virus. We are told that China was aware of this virus as early as the 17 November 2019. The first two cases of covid-19 in the UK were recorded on the 27th January 2020.
Lockdown in China, Wuhan shortly followed by other cities in Hubei, began on the 23rd January 2020 over two months after it was known the virus was in the community. The lockdowns in 16 cities of Hubei China affected 57 million people.
The numbers recorded for infection and death caused by covid-19 are dependent on testing for the virus. Deaths could be for a range of existing illnesses and conditions aggravated or accelerated by covid-19.
The number of deaths in England for November 2019, December 2019, and January 2020, were 42k, 44k, and 53k respectively.
The number of deaths worldwide to date attributed to covid-19 are 7,144.
Given the spread of the virus by reported infections and deaths a number of questions could be asked. Among those questions are:
How many people in the UK had covid-19 before it was first reported? How many people in the UK have died after they contracted covid-19 but before the tests were made? How long had the virus been in the UK before testing was carried out?
Perhaps some questions should be asked? Are we being distracted from something? Are we over reacting, under reacting or getting things just right?
Thank you Norman.
Kim, I was on holiday in October last year and we visited Milan and Pisa and other places. After returning from Italy, I was stricken with a ‘bug’ which started with a viciously sore throat and then uncontrollable coughing and then a very high temperature and an overall ‘drained’ feeling.
My thinking, now, is that (unknown at the time), I had Covid19 !
Being otherwise fit and healthy (aged 68), I was able to recover within about ten days.
All in all, I think that Covid19 must have been active in Italy since, at least, early October 2019 and was being treated as a seasonal ‘bug’. It seems that the people who have died because of Covid19 have virtually all had underlying heath issues and people who are reasonably fit and healthy can overcome this virus.
We too have had these symptoms. Starting with a very sore throat then a dry cough was particularly stubborn, also dizziness possibly lung function. A very strange bug we thought a cold but not a cold like we have ever had. This was after trips to London with relatives and then to Gatwick Airport to drop them off on their return flight. Your experience predates the reports that it was first registered in China on the 17th November. Our experience of these odd symptoms were towards the end of January and so would fall into the accepted time frame. We have been very suspicious that we had covid-19 going on the symptoms but have been reluctant to communicate this possibly for fear of being thought of as paranoid.
There is more to this than we are being told. This morning I learnt that people posting on Facebook about this virus are not having their comments posted. So censorship is happening as well. Where I can understand the need for a rational and sensible approach to this pandemic, believe that we are all very vulnerable and not just to covid-19.
Ron Paul thinks it’s a great opportunity for our caring, sharing “elites”. https://shar.es/aHgByr
It seems to me that all the ‘woke’ virtue signallers are going to have a rude awakening when they finally take their heads out of their own rectums and find that although they have been busy trying to save the world, their own country will have become changed beyond recognition (and not into something “rich and strange”). Life is about to become very challenging! But….we were warned!
The me first and sod the rest attitude, has but a short life time to exist, – If the Coronavirus starts to hit hard, the repair to a heating system, the delivery of goods, or the rubbish collections etc, may well be things that dent the lifestyle of the comfy and cosy people ! ….. There could be a realisation of how all people’s work is necessary for everyone, – It will come as a shock to some !
Brilliant!