Now learnt that we're going to have to put up with covid-19 . . . forever! As delivered by Matt Hancock, Minister of Health. Or is it Minister For Health? That the vaccine's effectiveness wears off and we're going to have fresh vaccines to keep it at bay annually, the same way we have flu jabs every year. Oh no, just doom and gloom. It's fine if you have a family or a partner, but what about those of us who are single (not by choice, I can inform you by the way.) and have to spend most of our day shut up like a battery chicken and don't see anyone all day to have a respectable conversation with. I don't believe half of what we're told by either the government scientists or those who should know better. A year stuck in limbo is just not on. We need to get out of this lockdown situation fairly rapidly. Every time we seem to be heading out of this limbo, something happens to prevent lockdown being lifted, for example, the scientists suddenly discover a 'new variant,' which they say is more virulent than the original virus. So, stricter regulations are bought in, or they decide that children can catch it, or that another group can catch it, or it spreads more rapidly etc etc. It's almost as if they don't want it to end. Why is it people are just believing all this? Why does nobody question the reliability of the data that is thrown up? Are we to be caught in this trap forever? Is there no way out of it? If not, it seems like it to me. It's the same scare tactics that were used during the Brexit referendum campaign, saying that, if we leave the EU (which we have, fortunately.) that it's equal to the end of civilisation as we know it. Well, it isn't. It's got to the point that we have to cower in our bunkers and baton down the hatches and just put up with pubs, theatres, gyms and so on being closed down. Just not life any more. Just like some awful dystopian novel. More like Noddy In Toyland than 1984 or Brave New World.
Boris Johnson is supposed to be giving some indication tomorrow at another of the delightfully enlivening press conferences about how lockdown is to be lifted, if only partially. I learn that we will be able to meet a friend on a park bench for a coffee. Wow! So exciting! And then you'll be able to play a game of tennis. Woopee! The most ridiculous bit of news I heard recently was that pubs could reopen, but couldn't sell alcohol. Well, what is the point of that? A pub that can't sell a pint of best bitter or lager any other alcoholic drink isn't worth visiting then, is it? Who's going to bother? It wouldn't be a pub, but a cafe, if they can provide food. There are some backbench MPs who want it lifted completely. It's obviously not going to happen in one go, but in bits and pieces. Some are saying that the effects of the lockdown on people's mental health is far worse that the effects of covid-19. I can well believe it. PLEASE can we get out of this situation before we all turn into blocks of stone, or get eradicated by some alien space creatures who sneek up on us when we're not looking. I think a lot of people are just so apathetic that they wouldn't notice. I used to be apathetic but now I just don't care. I used to be conceited but now I'm absolutely perfect. Not! Just had to put that in.
When the scientists give the figures, that is, for those who have been infected by the virus as well as those who have succumbed to the virus and then died, can you please give us a comparison with figures in a normal year of those who die of virus such as from flu? Then, break it down into ages. Presumably there is more likelihood of older people, say, in their 80s and older, would be going to die anyway (I don't wish to be cruel here, but it needs to be said.) They just bandy these figures around without any real context. Not a good way to present scientific evidence surely. Nobody dares question any of this data, which they should.
I think it's the fear-factor, the 'doom and gloom' or all this that annoys me most. The way the government have infantilised the public. We're being treated like little children. We know there's a risk with this confounded virus, but can't people be allowed to make their own minds up over what they do and live their lives? There's a risk in many areas of our lives, from merely crossing the road, getting in a car or aeroplane or in some cases, merely breathing. They've managed to take away our freedoms without much complaint or scrutiny and it's that which get's my goat the most.
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