Lockdown by Lazarus 4: Past the Peak of No Return?

Past the peak! Pass the port!

Not really much of a victory. If indeed a victory it is!

Johnson says  the Uk has avoided an uncontrollable and catastrophic epidemic that could have caused 500,000 deaths.

But there's still everything to play for. Now do you want to take those 26,097 deaths - that's yours to keep (you evil Tory bastard), or do you want to gamble and go for the higher number. Remember, you don't want to spend money on helping the poor, or providing PPE to doctors and nurses.

Audience, what do YOU think he should do?

We will beat this with our resolve and ingenuity? Our? You mean the tireless work of scientists and researchers, many of whom are prisoners of the capitalist machine that will profit from their work and not provide it on the basis of basic human necessity? Yeah, I thought that's what you mean.

Not the brainless resolve of a Frankenstein's monster, animated by force and not wit. A pitiful thoughtless thing. It's like listening to Emily Bronte's football commentary. This spectacularly charmless oaf spouting in language whose colours the rest of us cannot see because we didn't benefit from a private education priced at and intended to mould the next generation of dogs.

Elsewhere I read that, despite 'assurances' to the contrary, people are being evicted, and with the aid of the cops. That's what police are folks: state enforcers. Law, like politics, isn't arbitrary. It's not decided democratically; that is neither you nor I get a say in what is and isn't legal. Capitalists do that. The ruling class has the monopoly on that, just like, through the cops, it has the monopoly on force. Without that people would be able to stand up to this kind of partisan bullying. Don't believe that, institutionally, the cops are your friend. Not when they are helping turf out into destitution NHS key workers and the like (anyone, really, it shouldn't matter).

Fuck these people. They are bullying those more likely to be paid less than the Real Living Wage and four times more likely to be on a sketchy, zero hour, contract. This is how the government treats those on the front line right now. Just as it has always treated the poor who fight for them, just ask any British Tommy. Or at least those not filled to the brim with right wing pro-state borderline fascist propaganda (don't believe me, go to any squaddie internet forum).

But we're past the peak. Unless you live or work in a care home. In which case you are literally in the Reaper's shadow. Thanks to a government so stupid it's own health minister actively cheers a media campaign from the Daily Mail that showed up his utter incompetence.

Not that I want to congratulate the Mail of course!