The Times newspaper published an article on Monday called “I have lockdown nostalgia, and I’m not alone”. The piece by fashion editor Harriet Walker is concerning but predictable evidence that lockdowns could return at the drop of a hat at some point in the future.
I’ve had several conversations recently — at parties, ironically enough — that confirmed what the guilty little voice in my head has been whispering for some time: for many people, the enforced planlessness of lockdown was actually quite nice.
Many of the laptop class, those who could work from home, actually enjoyed their freedoms being taken away from them. Sad. Their lives were in such a mess, so exhausting and so stressful that they needed someone to imprison them to feel better about themselves. Instead of taking control of their own existence, by changing things that weren’t working for them, they required society to lock them up. Pathetic
In some sense I feel sorry for these people. Nobody should feel that their lives are so out of control that they need something as extreme as lockdowns to subdue the chaos. It’s ironic that the worldwide chaos caused by lockdowns actually returned order to those whose lives were already in chaos.
But these really were first world problems that the laptop class wanted to hide away from. And most of which could have been sorted out by themselves or if external influence was required, with therapy.
Let me get my tiny violin out to play some incredibly sad music whilst I listen to Harriet’s reasons for longing for lockdowns. “Constantly ferrying the kids between things”, “the roster of weekend clubs and activities” and weeknight work events”. Tough life, maybe she should do a life swap with one of the hundreds of millions of people who were pushed into extreme poverty due to lockdowns.
Even single friends I expected to be livid with me for mentioning the L-word said they were wistful for time that didn’t come with the pressure to be used efficiently or productively. In this age of constant omni-channel communication, maintaining friendships can often feel like a second job.
That’s because you have rich friends, Harriet. They sat in their gardens, made banana bread and watched Netflix whilst the furlough money rolled in. I can guarantee that anyone who uses the phrase the “age of constant omni-channel communication” doesn’t have a clue about how the other half live. And if maintaining friendships feels like a second job, stop pretending you have so many friends. They are mainly fake, ditch them and keep the real ones.
The school-aged kids I know remember lockdown (the sunny one, anyway) with something close to fondness, too. Though it was tough for older teens, younger ones enjoyed walking the dog, reading and making up dance routines without worrying about what their friends were doing without them.
Once again, the kids Harriet knows are rich ones. The ones who aren’t part of the laptop class were often trapped in cramped apartments with no outside space. They struggled to complete homework due to the noise in the house and had to cope with stressed parents who had lost their jobs and couldn’t afford food. Many of these kids disappeared from the school system and still have not returned. Some were abused. Some witnessed domestic violence. Some sadly killed themselves. Many still have social anxiety to this day.
To be fair to Harriet, she tries to acknowledge the harms that happened due to lockdowns.
It’s a privilege to think this way, I know. For those who lost relatives and livelihoods, lockdown was beyond awful. It sharpened lifestyle choices to their most intolerable: loneliness among single people; the claustrophobia of house shares; the frustrated exhaustion of trying to work and parent simultaneously.
But these are just noises. If Harriet truly understood the harms caused by lockdowns, she would be too embarrassed to write her article. ‘Lockdown’ should be a dirty word that, even if people enjoyed it, should never be mentioned in a positive light again. And if you are so desperate for another lockdown, then pay for yourself to be incarcerated. Go to therapy, check in to a clinic but don’t force the rest of the world to suffer just because you can’t get your shit together.
We are all still coming to terms with what we went through in 2020 and there is a certain pressure to perform “normal” again. But I’m determined to keep hold of some of that planlessness. It is empty time, I now realise, that keeps me feeling topped up.
And this is why her article is so dangerous. Because a large percentage of the laptop class still feel like this. They can be given stats and figures showing how damaging lockdowns were until they are blue in the face and they would still crave for another lockdown. You could probably show them a starving baby, its family pushed into extreme poverty due to lockdowns and whilst they would feel sad, they would still manage to justify it somehow.
All it would take is for another crisis, any crisis, it doesn’t have to be a pandemic, and these people would feel the pangs of nostalgia return. Power hungry governments would suggest lockdowns and whilst pretending to be enraged, behind the scenes they will push for them to go ahead. Anything to avoid the commute to work. Anything to avoid another face-to-face meeting. Anything to avoid another networking event. There are too many selfish people in our society. They think the world owes them a break because they work so hard in their bullshit jobs, drinking their soy lattes. And the only way to get that break is to dump on the poor people of this world from a great height.
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I’m not “vaccinated” and they’ll have to hold me down before I have it. But as I’ve never had the app and have blocked the NHS numbers how are they going to enforce this on me, if shock horror I come into contact with this not so deadly virus?
Of course all this is unnecessary
Dr. Peter McCullough – 5 Things About COVID That They Don’t Want You To Hear BY RED VOICE MEDIA
Dr. Peter McCullough – Ends The Pandemic With 5 COVID Facts?
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2021/08/dr-peter-mccullough-5-things-about-covid-that-they-dont-want-you-to-hear/?utm_source=daily-email&utm_medium=email
1. The virus does not spread asymptomatically.
2. We should never test asymptomatic people.
3. Natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable.
4. COVID-19 is easily treatable at home.
5. The current vaccines are obsolete, unsafe, and unfit for human use.
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday from 10am meet fellow anti lockdown freedom lovers, keep yourself sane, make new friends and have a laugh.
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Everyone should have access to Dr Peter McCullough’s recommendations, findings and treatments. It really is that simple.
I doubt there are that many unvaccinated people daft enough to install and use the app lol.
Eight years ago I made my apple smartphone a note engine and its has no chip. I have an old Nokia stupidphone and never open a call or message from unidentifiable origin. Simple and plain.
What sort of idiot does what an ‘app’ tells them to do?
Same ones who got themselves hooked on Pokémon Go (which included too many “adults”).
Most of the Human Race with access to one tragically.
This unvaccinated Brit wont be self isolating under any circumstances.
Just back from holiday.. unvaxxed so supposed to isolate for ten days. Out and about as usual. Not a chance I will be imprisoned for no reason
What will you say when the Mitie marshall calls and finds you not at home?
set the dogs on them for trespassing
“Sorry, we couldn’t come to the door as we were all recuperating in bed, just in case!”
Mitie Marshall, now that really is frightening.
I guess he won’t say anything cos no ones answering the door.
Are you sure you are not self isolating within Britain? Have you been abroad recently?
Ditto!
Good to see “cases” in inverted commas, as it is a meaningless propaganda term. Could we please also have “fully vaccinated” in inverted commas for the same reason?
“getting two doses of vaccine has tipped the odds” in favour of hospitalisation and death according to the latest Public Health England technical briefing.
Two friends ages 70 and 62 suffering serious heart and lung issues. One a fib, finally diagnosed dr recommends ablation. The other rapid heart rate 180, shortness of breath, cough, ct scan of lungs abnormal, cannot get into see a pulmonologist for months. Both people active healthy pre double jabbed. In USA all family that were jabbed, now getting colds, one after the other.
But according to Jeremy Vine at the BBC, as the Yellow Card system is only self reporting, it isn’t verified, so the vaccines are 100% safe and no one ever has been harmed by them. “Just tell me Jeremy, how do those who were otherwise fit and healthy but died after receiving the vaccine ‘self report’ their deaths?”
Of course all this is unnecessary
Dr. Peter McCullough – 5 Things About COVID That They Don’t Want You To Hear BY RED VOICE MEDIA
Dr. Peter McCullough – Ends The Pandemic With 5 COVID Facts?
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2021/08/dr-peter-mccullough-5-things-about-covid-that-they-dont-want-you-to-hear/?utm_source=daily-email&utm_medium=email
1. The virus does not spread asymptomatically.
2. We should never test asymptomatic people.
3. Natural immunity is robust, complete, and durable.
4. COVID-19 is easily treatable at home.
5. The current vaccines are obsolete, unsafe, and unfit for human use.
Stand in South Hill Park Bracknell every Sunday from 10am meet fellow anti lockdown freedom lovers, keep yourself sane, make new friends and have a laugh.
Join our Stand in the Park – Bracknell – Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
So UK has took its first step into the communist social credit system. First reward is that you don’t need to imprison yourself after being in the vicinity of someone who had a false positive test. Doesn’t matter that the fake vaccine does nothing to stop transmission/reinfection either – you were a good citizen for following the UK Regime’s orders.
Also no 10-day quarantine on return to the UK from abroad if you have been ‘fully stabbed’.
That’s if you make it back home.
Went to Chicago end of May. Attended a wedding, church full, reception 225 people. Went on to Las Vegas with 39 family. Plane and airport packed. Hotel in Vegas sold out, 4.000 rooms. Surrounded by thousands of people. Came home without a scratch, just a lighter bank account after paying just over $400 for swab tests. 😂😂😂😂😂
Today’s ‘cases’ and ‘deaths’ distorted by addition of two days of Welsh data.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whats-new/record/467fbf31-0162-4bc6-920c-caa33039386f
So today I know of 3 people all young who have just completed their covid injections and now have full blown covid, but they get a free pass because they are good boys and girls. Nothing to do with stopping a virus everything to do with repression and obedience
I was speaking to a colleague yesterday who’s been ill for a couple weeks. He said he’d had both jabs and has taken covid tests repeatedly to see if he’d caught the phantom menace. Every time he took a test it came back negative so he phoned the doctor who did a “telephone analysis” and declared he was ill with covid (surprise surprise!).
A prime example of this complete and utter clusterfuck. He probably wasn’t ill with covid, though if he was, why did it get past his x2 super-deluxe artificial immune system we keep hearing about? Why did the all-important tests not detect it? How did the doctor know it was covid and not a flu? Was it an adverse reaction to the double jabs?
He had Covid cos the stabs don’t work, lucky him, now naturally immune. So long as the stabs don’t f that up – which some think possible, I pray not.
More than possible, let’s say highly likely.
USA just approved a third shot. WTF. So because the first two didn’t kill or maim you, we are going to have one more go😂😂😂😂
Flu has disappeared, so it must be Covid.
Of course it is, all colds & flus have been rebranded…
Three people at our bowls club got Covid. All double jabbed, oops.
Deep, deep, somewhere hidden in the nonsense, will be the ability to ‘exempt’ yourself from all of this; just as one can exempt oneself from all the ‘covidpass’ drivel, and just as one could/can (where required, eg in ‘health’ situations) exempt oneself from the mask codswallop.
at the moment, yes.
Until the stabs are fully authorised – ie, tomorrow.
Israel, with a nearly entirely vaccinated adult population, now expects this coronavirus wave to be the worst yet – up to 2,500 serious cases compared to 1,200 in January. Note: the article doesn’t mention vaccines once. It’s like they never even happened.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/health-officials-predict-thousands-of-seriously-ill-covid-patients-within-month/
Israel only ‘vaccinated’ Israeli Jews; no Israeli Arabs.
Bit of a double edged sword….do Palestine want to be vaccinated?
Oddly they have very similar covid death stats…. Israel 9 million population and about 7,000 covid deaths. Very vaccinated..
Palestine 4,500 population and around 3,500 covid deaths…not very vaccinated!
Palestine 4.5 million population, sorry.
The Palestinian population is much younger on average.
But also have worse health overall
Japan has the highest percentage of elderly people in the world, had no serious lockdowns, includes Tokyo with a metro population of nearly 40 million people, has widespread use of public transport and currently has a fully vaxxed rate of just 36%.
“Covid” deaths per million? About 6 times less than Israel and 16 times less than the UK.
V high vit D, and maybe also much thinner than the UK.
Plus Asia is the land of origin for the coronavirus family. Cross resistance from others coronaviruses likely higher.
You’ve been watching too much BBC. I bet you take the Guardian as well. No hope for you.
Obesity top and Center on the list of risks for Covid. What a shame not one health authority advised people to lose weight.
Covid deaths?
Always their words, not mine!
Trying to eliminate their own people?why?
As suggested by many world renowned scientists…giving an experimental biological during a pandemic will certainly cause mutations of the virus, otherwise known as scariants. Happening now in front of our eyes.
The government replace a stupid thing for another less stupid: money will be more subtly robbed from people.
As ever a deafening silence re the 99.75% recovered from this deadly pandemic and who as a result do not need the “vaccine”. Recovery offers sterilising immunity, virus
finds it difficult to replicate meaning unlikely to transmit to others and/or “mutate”.
I wonder why the MSM in general make no mention of this.
I tried to point this out in the Guardian (I know) but my comment was traduced and now I’m pre- moderated ie banned.
For entertainment in these times I recommend you have a go and try educating them. They’ll be on you in a flash!
Heresy, you’re a heretic – fires coming soon.
The Guardian cannot allow anything which would imperil the gazillions that Bill Gates pumps into it.
As others say below this hardly applies to people who don’t have the app, and that will be most of us here I would say. No one has ever contacted me as I have never signed in as myself ever and won’t be doing so. So as before for most of us.
Well, I have a feeling that they are now all but ready to move on to control as a result of the climate ‘crisis’. Bears with as little brain as Bozo and the cabinet find it too demanding to deal with more than one thing at a time!
The CDC in the US has withdrawn the current PCR tests – because they are shite and don’t work. Yet our government/PHE obviously didn’t get the memo. The other troubling thing with this is – it’s the jabbed who are making the cases but because I’m not jabbed, I would have to isolate for 10 days (not that I would as I don’t have the app and have blocked all NHS numbers. Even if they got through, they could whistle as far as I’m concerned). Nazi bastards.
The CDC in the US has withdrawn the current PCR tests – because they are shite and don’t work.
That’s a misunderstanding. The CDC has announced that it will withdraw the specific PCR test it uses at the moment at the end of the year because better PCR tests have become available. The UK does not use the PCR test that is being withdrawn.
https://fullfact.org/health/the-cdc-has-not-said-pcr-tests-dont-work/
So unlike the US, the UK uses a PCR test that works! Come on now, try and be serious.
Please read the link I provided. They both work. The only reason the US is going to stop using the current PCR test is that there others that work more quickly and efficiently including some that can test for Covid and Flu simultaneously.
Reading between the lines they are following what we have been saying on this site from very early on. When PCR testing was handed over to any old company instead of being overseen in a proper lab, there was horrendous contamination, false readings etc. This is really admitting that they were wrong to do that. The PCR in essence won’t change, it’s about quality control, new assays, new reagents, new protocols…basically to try to limit the damage done and try to regain some semblance of test quality.
I suspect the majority of the unvaccinated are sensible enough not to have the app or sign in anywhere so won’t be notified anyway.
I had a sentence ready then I just thought, why would I give a shit? I don’t know anyone with the app, none of us care and I can’t even think this is news except to a few idiots who like getting themselves tested…for fun! ‘Nine million calls since the pandemic began’, which will be much less now….so probably sixty million of us won’t give a monkeys!!
I actually know one person who has been pinged twice and he took it seriously both times. I told him that he reminded me of a turkey voting for an early Christmas and he was not amused. I should perhaps have been more kind, with him being double jabbed and consequently living on borrowed time.
Batshit crazy!
Patients admitted to hospital with a Delta infection after double inoculation are being found carrying a high viral load, something that is the hallmark of ADE.
Only if the intention is to achieve herd immunity by infecting as many as possibly could this course of action be considered not batshit crazy.
Can anyone give another explanation?
Ohhh this would make sense as to why the ct counts are different? I knew there was more to this graph from the other day.
I’ve cut the key off but the lines with ct count ~20 are Delta and the lines with ct count ~30 were Alpha(?) sorry can’t remember what scariant came before.
Yeah.
We’ve been fooled – two jabs won’t buy you holiday freedom after all
No surprise there, proper vaccines work by reducing or hopefully zeroing the effects of being infected. They neither stop one becoming infected nor stop one spreading the disease. This is vaccine fact, however I’d be prepared to accept they may reduce the transmission rate as the infected vaccinated person may be infectious for less time.
Piss off, lying by nature Toad.
In a word, what a mess.
Why they are still treating unvaccinated differently from vaccinated beats me, as it must surely now be clear to them that the vaccine doesn’t prevent transmissibility or susceptibility. My only guess is that they’re ‘saving face’ having so definitively claimed the vaccine was our “passport out of the restrictions”, so cannot be seen to be wrong.
“Fully vaccinated” implies protection. If only the “vaccines” prevented infection or transmission, or hopefully both. Now even the mainstream realise that these cocktails do neither. But the push/ nudge to a fully vaccinated population grinds on relentlessly. Why? Because the pr*cks in charge are doubling down and using this great “opportunity” to terrorise the masses, to muzzle us and keep us in our place. Clearly this situation has nothing to do with public health. I seem to be surrounded by spineless sheep, unthinking clowns too afraid of their own shadows to challenge anything , prepared to do anything to be able to go on holiday. I despair for our future.
From now on sentence must read, fully vaccinated today…who knows about tomorrow?