Dream on: ’tis not going to happen! Maybe next year …

 

This time it’s really really serious! We’re all gonna die fersure, but our ‘caring’ covid government will keep us ‘safe’ by cancelling Freedom Day. They’ll let us know on Monday that Freedom Day is off. There’s this graph, you see, with ‘ministers’ making certain that we’re all suitably scared.

Meanwhile, the MSM have divided between themselves who should report on what. The Remain ones write about the ’sausage war’ where Macron, Merkel and the EU leaders are going to tell BJ to submit or else. The ‘populist’ red tops write about the start of the UEFA Cup games and who will or won’t take the knee. The rest report on the continuation of lockdown. See – that’s freedom of the press nowadays: reporting as and how the Westminster Covid Cabal demands.

Regarding the ‘sausage war’: BJ and the EU gang of four – Macron, Merkel, Michel and vdLeyen – will meet to trash this out. Frosty will be present. However, there’s the snake in the grass slithering about:

“Michael Gove, the Cabinet Office minister, struck a more emollient tone after meeting Micheal Martin, the Irish prime minister.” (link, paywalled)

Emollient he might sound, but, snake-like, he’s now put the Irish PM into the unenviable position of standing up against the EU ‘mighty’ while painting a target on his back should the talks go down the drain:

“The protocol is there to uphold the Belfast agreement in all its dimensions and it is important that the east-west dimensions are respected,” Gove said. […] “I know that the Irish government is using its best endeavours in order to proceed in a pragmatic and constructive way.” (link, paywalled)

Astounding, given the past history of Irish PMs like Mr Varadkar, of working firmly with the EU ever since Brexit! While BJ is profitably engaged with the G7 and the ‘sausage wars’ down in Cornwall, the covid ministers are preparing the ground for the cancellation of Freedom Day. It’s ‘too risky’, you see – and the covid ‘reporters’ in the DT (paywalled link) have come up with a horrendous graph according to which ‘cases would hit the January peak’ if Freedom Day were to happen.

Haven’t they learned that such graphs are quickly reduced to rubble, such as the horror ‘projection’ by the SAGEs last October? The Times meanwhile reports the statistical shenanigans used by PHE to make Freedom Day go away:

“Only 0.1 per cent of those known to be infected have died, compared with 1.9 per cent with the Kent strain. But after adjusting for vaccination status, age and other risks, PHE’s analysis found “a significantly increased risk of hospitalisation” for people infected with the Indian strain, compared to the Kent variant.” (link, paywalled)

The DT meanwhile reports that the British Medical Association is also against letting us out (paywalled link) – of course not! How would GPs be able to cope if they had to open their surgeries! I don’t know if it’s the ‘ministers’ in this covid empire who’ve pointed the covid reporters to the relevant pages on the PHE site, to make sure their reports support the rush to cancel Freedom Day, or if the esteemed covid reporters did it themselves.

So I went to take a look for myself, and amidst all those pretty pictures, ‘guidances’ and stuff I found this:

“We currently have no evidence that the variant is more likely to cause severe disease or mortality, but we are continuing investigations to understand this better.” (link)

Yes, dear readers: PHE has no evidence that people will become more ill or die! They and the covid ministers are however clearly hell-bent on making everybody stay locked down in order to get more people jabbed:

“A senior Whitehall source said: “A delay would allow for more first doses but also, critically, more second doses and more time for those doses to take effect. It would give protection to many, many millions of people who haven’t had their second doses yet but may be vulnerable to coronavirus.” (paywalled link)

Oh dear. ‘People may be vulnerable’ – weren’t we told that even one jab would protect most of those ‘vulnerable’? Irrelevant – as irrelevant as the question raised by Will Jones which we reported yesterday (here): how come this Indian variant is only so dreadful here in the UK? 

The governments ‘covid operations committee’ will meet tomorrow evening, we’re told, the cabinet is expected to ‘rubber-stamp’ their findings and BJ will tell the Nation later on Monday that, sorry, there’s no Freedom, and never mind that:

“The Treasury is so far refusing to extend the business rates freeze for the hospitality and leisure sector which ends on July 1, arguing that enough support is already in place.” (paywalled link)

Interesting – especially when we see what one of Rishi’s ‘sources’ has let ‘emerge’:

“The Chancellor is quite relaxed about a short delay if that’s what’s necessary to win the race between the vaccines and the variants,” said one Whitehall source. “The reason he kept economic support in place until September was that he knew June 21 was the very earliest possible date for lifting remaining restrictions. For him the worst scenario would be to lift restrictions and then find a few weeks later we have to lock down again. That wouldn’t be good for health or for the economy.” (paywalled link)

Blimey – is Rishi now also a futurologist? How could he have known this might happen all these months ago? Or might it be the case that the whole covid regime knew even then that Freedom day would never happen but decided to dangle it in front of our noses, to pacify us peasants in the run-up to the local elections? Yes, I am that cynical to think so! And what about the businesses who’ve planned for the promised freedom, for example those who’ve:

“taken out loans predicated on business returning to normal on June 21. Retail, leisure and hospitality businesses will also have to start paying one third of their normal business rates from July 1, after the 100 per cent exemption expires.” (paywalled link)

Well, Rishi? Is this any different from your ‘worst scenario’? Perhaps all those brilliant minds in the Treasury simply cannot envisage that e.g. pubs and restaurants cannot just go ahead and open at the drop of the covid government’s hat! It’s not like switching a PC on and off, is it! As for their customers – tough. Let them drink at home and cut their hair and nails themselves!

Perhaps it’s the aim of this government to get rid of all those places where we peasants congregate. The WFH crowd will keep drinking at home … and who cares inside the Westminster bubble that these businesses – pubs, restaurants, wedding venues and even airlines ‘might collapse under the weight of their own debts.’ After all, ‘the people want it’, according to this poll:

“In a YouGov poll for The Times, 53 per cent said that restrictions should remain beyond June 21, compared with 34 per cent saying they should end.” (link, paywalled)

I bet those polled are all safely ensconced in their WFH bubbles. Perhaps they thought they’d be able to go on their holidays anyway. Sadly, while the rest of the EU can travel and enjoy summer holidays when double-jabbed and prepared to go into quarantine, we Brits won’t even be let in because, thanks to our demented covid emperors, Great Britain is now off their list of ‘approved’ countries (link).

Never mind – “we” can all enjoy watching footie from home now, kneeling UK footballers included. Some of us plebs might even be allowed into Wimbledon. I wonder if they’ll make the ball boys and girls wear masks. 

The only way to end this madness is by civil disobedience, by refusing to knuckle under, starting with dumping the muzzles. We didn’t listen to Remain in the days before the Referendum vote – we should stop listening to the covid emperors now. Laws which are disobeyed en masse are futile. They’re best scrapped if government wants to keep a semblance of authority.

Even covid politicians ought to know that losing authority means that their political careers will end in failure.

 

KBO!