Why does he do it?
What is the nature of their relationship? "Move on" grunts the PM. He doesn't want us to focus on the obvious. His special adviser stammered through a tissue of lies in front of the nation. Everyone can see it. The consequences are and will be profound. The message terrifying. What's the PM's answer?
"Move on"
A disastrous meeting with the liaison committee yesterday, one notable for him deigning to grace Parliament with his misbegotten presence. He had no answers, he twisted the advice the scientists have given, and he dismissed it all.
"Move on"
No. We cannot move on. Locally the infection rate exceeds the national average. The hospital isn't admitting new patients because of Covid. Are we facing a second wave? Why might this be happening here? Is it because everyone has been piling on to the beach, especially over the weekend?
I don't know, but I can reasonably - I think - say that the behaviour of this moron Johnson is covering for to the point of reality warp hasn't exactly helped. This situation will only get worse now that we are entering a period of unfettered sunshine. Summer is most definitely here, people are out. I see people picnicking and kids playing. Not in unsettling huge numbers, but it is definitely emblematic of a shift in perception. The problem is, should we get a rise in cases and a second wave, putting the public genie back in the bottle is going to be impossible. Especially in the summer time.
Coupled with the dangerous mixed message and contempt shown by the Tory cabinet, all of whom seem to be huddling together around their ideological Svengali, where are we? Where are we? We are being told to ignore the evidence of our eyes. To draw conclusions other than what is plainly logical. They are ideologically herding us into unsafety. To soften us up, to open us up. God knows, now, I want things to return to normality. But how can they when the likes of Waterstones are saying they are going to take books patrons have been browsing and 'quarantine' them for three days? Every other shop will of course have something similar? Will Tesco take food that has been handled but not purchased off the shelves? Fresh produce?
Meanwhile the test and trace debacle plods on. Our health is of course in the hands of privateers. The NHS isn't running this service, It's Serco (and possibly others) via a call centre. Doesn't that inspire confidence! NO!
How is this even meant to work? Forget their ridiculous app (everyone else will), how are they going to identify people if someone reports symptoms and says they were out reading books in Waterstones? The manager isn't going to know the identity of every customer that day? Are they going to check till receipts and mine credit card details? Will we need ID to shop? They even talked about a 'Corona Passport'. How can that possibly work? Yours will last until your sick, then you (hopefully) recover or come out of quarantine healthy and need a new one...until you get exposed again, and so forth. It's not like a school cycling proficiency test: one and done for life!
All the while they continue to gaslight us. Mocking us at every turn. Either we lock up in our increasingly arid and boiling domiciles, or we risk death in the sun from the invisible killer the government is ignoring while it defends its own.
Fuck this.
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