What better way to kick off the year than by reliving the highlights of 2020 with another strict, handcuffing of liberties under the new buzzword "Lockdown".
Within just a few short days, after everyone had breathed a sigh of relief at seeing the back of what will be remembered as The Worst Year Of Our Lives, the UK Government are right back on the horse, hammering down morale with ham-fisted sledgehammer policies as they plunge the entire country back into lockdown. I pray to our Covid overlords that this doesn't become Groundhog Year.
The new "mutant strain" of Covid-19 has allegedly been running rampant over UK, despite the existing Tiered restrictions, and the associated regulations that accompany it. The latest iteration of lockdown resembles the original one from back at the outset of this debacle; namely you must STAY AT HOME unless it's unavoidable. You can exercise outside once per day, alone. You can go to the shop for essential rations. You can go out to collect medication. And you can still go to work assuming you are lucky enough to still have a job and are considered a keyworker. Otherwise, sit at home losing money, precious days of life, and your sanity until the Government decide otherwise. And as it stands, there is no end date. It's just left open ended, at their mercy.
Education is back in suspended animation with substandard teaching returning in an online format, tutored by beleaguered parents who are not trained teachers. If teaching kids is that simple that it can be offloaded onto parents effortlessly, why do teachers even need to get qualifications for it, and why is it illegal to keep your child off school without good reason? Another round of examinations have been cancelled, and another term of University education disrupted (though the students must still pay for it). Again, with the way the country is headed, there wouldn't be any jobs recruiting anyhow.
Economically the country continues it's swan dive at breakneck speed. Rishi Sunak has announced another raft of concessions and support for flailing businesses and employees in the form of grants and furlough. Any of the population who are still awake are again questioning where all this funding is magically being conjured from (heads up, it's being written on IOU's that our taxes will be paying back in the coming years). Economic forecasts are predicting the deficit for this financial year could hit £450bn. To quantify that for you, it's: 450,000,000,000.00 which is roughly £6,700 per person in the UK. Oh well, those lot in their ivory tower don't care, because it won't be them paying it back.
We are told that once the miraculous vaccine has been administered we can be
And as for the magical vaccine? Pfizer & BNT must think their Christmases have all come at once, along with AstraZeneca; as it stands currently they have been absolved of all liability, allowed to rush the vaccine through without any long term studies into adverse events, and have not even completed full term trials yet - and here we are, injecting these chemical compounds into the elderly and vulnerable. What a time to be alive. Well. If this counts as life at least.
I am so fatigued with Covid, but I guess as James Buckley summed it up best;
"I'd rather be sick of Covid, than sick with Covid."
I have added a lockdown-sceptic themed design (at the top of this post) to my newly launched Redbubble shop that is available on a wide range of products. Feel free to pop over and check it out - any purchases would help greatly!
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