And so ten months of 2020 have passed; two and a half of which were sans virus. What do we have to show for it? Another lockdown. A terrible do-over.
What a day for a horribly delayed and poorly delivered announcement. The weather is total crap: wet, windy and dark. This is the immediate future we face, thrown at us like a bucket of shit. Not even our useless PM seems convinced, because of course he isn't. He'd rather be anywhere but here. Who wouldn't? Yet he has a choice - one he'll no doubt exercise on his Christmas break (because of course he'll take one) - we don't. We are permanent residents in the Eton's mess.
Everything is on the shoulders of this government; Atlas's shoulders aren't up to the job. They chose this course of action, by taking no action. They followed absolutely the wrong course of action from day one. They didn't lock down when they were told. Too much was opened and much too soon. They were told that, with pubs open and the new school year imminent, they had reached the limit, and they ignored it.
All of these choices are informed by attitudes bred into the ruling class. These decisions aren't made by objectively stupid people: they are well educated. Schools the kids currently locked up in the University of Covid, will never know. An education clearly squandered; money for nothing and cheques for free. All the product of the systems we have in our society. These must now be examined and will surely be found wanting.
We cannot go on like this. What happens after this lockdown, will it end? Do they have the capacity to understand their failings? Can the systems and positions within society they occupy allow this? I do not believe so. They cannot be anything other than what they are.
And what they are is venal and self serving. These people are objectionable and objectively surplus to requirements. I have no doubt the working class could handle this better. If freed from capital's infantilising yoke we would recognise our worth, our abilities, and each other.
Do we really think adequate testing and tracing services are going to appear over the course of November? By what metric; they believe their approach is correct. If they would only see things differently - clearly.
I worry this will hit people's well being harder. It's certainly going to hit mine. Yet that isn't sufficient reason not to do it. That's the awfulness of it all. There is good reason to believe that many people will flout the rules. They are keeping schools open, for example. Yet kids can't associate with classmates outside of school?
These sorts of inconsistencies become leaks in the lifeboat. People will exploit them - and who can blame them? Who are the elite to deny us our lives? Unfortunately, while they have no credibility, that is where they have left us; blinded without science. Where do people turn: conspiracy and credulity.
They have no credibility only power. They have no answers only doubt. They are leading us to destruction. There are very real crises ahead of us, with Brexit peaking at the predicted zenith of the second wave. We cannot isolate and socially distance from that. Where will we hide? Who has a private jet, a country club, an apartment in uptown, or a hedge fund in Belize they can escape to?
Yet again capital destroys and the working class are left to pick up the pieces.
I say no more.
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