It appears, predictably, that lockdown will continue past three weeks which, if I'm correct, ends with the end of this Easter bank holiday. This is accompanied by the frankly patronising (again if correct) claim from the Health Secretary that outdoor exercise will be banned if people don't behave. Look, people ought to be doing that but it's pretty obvious that there will always be - as there will in any situation - a cohort that cocks a snook at the request. All this petty threat will do, if realised, is make the whole experience for everyone even more stressful.
Not that Tories care. All this does is punish the many for the inevitable intransigence of a silly minority. This is childish thinking - not least of all because it's unenforceable. It will also have a minority (perhaps more) that will disobey. I will be one of them. I have the privilege of relatively open countryside at hand that I can avail myself of while observing social distancing. Fuck being nannied by - of all people - this government! I don't object to sensible guidance (anarchism isn't the rejection of authority per se, but the question of and the demand that authority be justified), but this kind of schoolmarm top down nonsense is as counter productive as it is useless.
So it's looking like May will be the next point of review. That's about another three weeks of lockdown. I hope at least the weather holds (as well as an end to this virus). I have no idea when the peak will arrive and, crucially, pass. But that isn't an end to this crisis; the virus will still persist.
If they call time on this lockdown you just know half the country will go crazy: straight down the boozer, partying and mass socialising. This could well be disastrous so it would require proper management. Something sadly lacking from the Covid Crew currently in charge and whichever hand sanitised corporate tool they wheel out this week to lie without scrutiny.
This is Easter 2020 folks. Normally a time I actually enjoy, despite the chocolate and psalms (neither of which I care for). In fact I prefer Easter to Christmas; even as an atheist I respect the more introspective tone. This combines with a signal that, at last, summertime is here (except when it bloody snows). Certainly today it has arrived, almost on the backs of Serpahim wielding flaming-swords. Ready to purge Eden of its stupid virus - and covid! Is this global warming unfettered, staring us in the face like the red sun of Krypton while we're forced to watch from inside?
What an extraordinary and depressing world we have wrought my friends.
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