Have you noticed how America always has to have an enemy? An external its ruling class tirelessly work to align the working class behind. A distraction, oviously - and lordy does Trumplestillshit need one now. How about....China! After all they deliberately infected us all (including themselves) with a man made (not man made) virus-disease.
Which isn't to say the super-secretive communist/capitalist (delete as applicable) regime handled it well, in terms of the human race. Still, as far as I know, they weren't selling off PPE to the highest bidder overseas. Because fuck humanity.
They're still holding their boots against the throats of Iran. No doubt sanctions have not helped their efforts to avoid a plague.
Are we any better? Boris Johnsoff thinks that if the virus was a mugger/physical assailant (delete as terrifying) we could ball our collective fists and assert ourselves like a British Tar
"His nose should pant and his lip should curl
His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl
His bosom should heave and his heart should glow
And his fist be ever ready for a knock down blow"
And when he shake hands in a pandemic, his health will go...
There has to be an enemy. We even need to anthropomorphise a plague. This, it seems to me, doesn't inspire the correct approach. It is a problem of biology, not nationalism and flag waving. Wipe down your surfaces with a union jack.
Fuck flags. All they ever do is symbolise division. They are the fashion of separation and segregation. Why would you advertise that? Some people claim they want to "reclaim" the flag? Why? Let the fucking thing die, or burn. Others say that it should be a benign or positive thing - then why does it so easily align with and become a tool of fascism? Coincidence? It has never made any sense to me for people to hang their national flag out the window/on their car/over their beer belly etc. It's bizarre to me to wave around the flag of the country you are quite comfortably living in. That's just pure provocation to me. It's clearly a statement of intent: are you British enough mate? You don't look it!
Finally, they say they are going to ease some lockdown restrictions. His highness, Sir Boris of Shitshow, is going to allow more time outside. Well that's nice, but let's be honest there is fuck all social distancing happening - never mind that, in local shops, it's impossible. But people just walk jog and cycle close by anyway. Nobody seems to obey then and they all hang around in groups.
"Picnics, sunbathing (?) and unlimited rambles" will be allowed. Who was policing the "limited" rambling? I could walk around all day and no one would know. The only problem would be all the bloody cyclists and joggers who ignore social distancing anyway. The whole thing just seems like a confused mess. presumably because it is a confused mess. Watch what happens if the infection rate goes up, which is entirely possible since everyone will just pile on outside and...
This is weird though:
"Chair of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee, Graham Brady, has called for the lifting of “arbitrary rules and limitations on freedom as quickly as possible” and suggested the public had been “a little too willing to stay at home”."
The Tories, who want a compliant state, now don't like too much compliance? Wait until he gets the Brexit he wants at the end of the year! See how compliant people are then. But the guy's a grubby capitalist, he wants the slaves out working to make him money. That's all the likes of Brady care about. Certainly not your health.
Class war here.
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