We’re publishing a short story today by the historian and regular Lockdown Sceptics contributor Guy de la Bédoyère, set in Britain in 2039. Needless to say, the country still hasn’t unlocked due to the weekly appearance of ‘new variants’. Here’s an extract:
“That’s a shame”, said Jo as he sat munching on his breakfast staring at a screen. “The final unlocking’s been postponed for another fortnight”.
“Why this time?” said his wife Elizabeth.
“There’s been an outbreak of the new Antarctic variant, this time with the hybrid Finnish-Tierra del Fuego mutation, and apparently cases have soared by 100% from one to two. Both have been thrown into jail.”
“That’s what they said last week – and the week before, in fact the year before,” came Elizabeth’s retort.
“That’s not fair,” said Jo. “Everyone knows the king is doing his best for Britain and it’s not his fault if these variants keep appearing.”
“He became king 15 years ago”, said Elizabeth, “and he’s promised to unlock every week since. In fact, he was promising that every week before he became king. And he never said anything about prisons before – oh no, sorry, he called them lockdowns, didn’t he?”
Worth reading in full.
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Doctor Richard Fleming on all things Covid. Great video. It’s a long one but well worth your time if you’ve not seen it in full.
https://media.livecast365.com/highwire/thehighwire/content/1622927384709.mp4
Bit fantastical
There will be no plebs left in 2039
We are all going to be seen off by 2024
And if there were anyone left, questions or scrutiny would have been erased from their thought processes by then.
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don’t even joke about it.
The world in 2030 according to the WEF:
“Welcome to the year 2030. Welcome to my city – or should I say, “our city.” I don’t own anything. I don’t own a car. I don’t own a house. I don’t own any appliances or any clothes.”
…”Once in a while I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. Nowhere I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/shopping-i-cant-really-remember-what-that-is-or-how-differently-well-live-in-2030/?sh=328e96e71735
kill me now.
That story is totally unbelievable – by 2039 there’ll be no such pronouns as ‘he’ or ‘she’, it’ll be ‘they’. And if we are still a monarchy, ‘they’ will be either a ‘Quing’ or a ‘Keen’ or simply ‘Their Majesty, The Monarch’. Their children will be simply ‘offspring’. So, the person we now refer to as Prince George will most likely by 2039 be ‘Their Royal Equal, The Offspring Without A Uterus of Wales’.
“A profession called ‘being furloughed’. Once an innovation, this had become a career, complete with its own promotion structure, and pay grades.”
LOL!
This is a masterpiece, thanks Guy!