This is the fourth chapter of a novel that will be published in serial form in the Daily Sceptic. It’s a dystopian satire about the emergence of a social credit system in the U.K. in the near future. Read chapter one here, two here and three here.
Afternoon. A break from work, jogging.
The morning’s drizzle having given way to a full blown fog, Ella could just make out the shape of the path ahead, carving its narrow course through the fields as it followed the bend of the river. It was her usual running loop, and, however much the landscape had been transformed over the years, still, just about, enough of a space to think and just ‘be’.
Her mind drifted. You had to hand it to them, the way they’d masterminded it had been sublime.
Originally marketed as a purely voluntary scheme, the Health Efficiency Programme (as it had originally been named) had at first dangled common sense, appealing rewards and prizes–- free trainers, subsidised gym memberships, contributions towards e-bikes and the like. “Well, we need to get people exercising somehow,” she had said to her mother-in-law one weekend as they were pacing across some muddy field.
“A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished,” her mother-in-law might have replied, but did not, instead nodding enthusiastically: “Yes I think so. They have to get everyone fit again somehow, don’t they?”
Reaching a fork in the path, Ella very deliberately took the low road.
That one clung to the river, and the route, though longer and much muddier, lent at least another few minutes of undisturbed nature to her run. The path higher up led out into what a few years back had been open farmland but whose last verdured remnants were now eclipsed by The Complex. Every time she ran this way, without fail she took the river route; along this path it was still just about possible to pretend she was still in countryside, at least if one blocked out the roar of the motorway to the left and the sight of the distant solar farms glinting on the horizon.
It hadn’t been long until rewards and freebies had became more overt nudges. Even then, though, the scheme had still largely been welcomed. “I like to see it as a promise, not a threat,” the ‘Right Honourable’ Minister for Opportunities, a weaselly little woman called Mrs Surrey, had soothed, her smirk barely perceptible, doing the media show-rounds.
To the extent that awkward-squad enclaves of freethinking dissidents urged caution – what if the scheme was extended to areas beyond ‘simply’ health, what if it became mandatory, what if nudges turned to sanctions and penalties – they were no match for the rest of those all-trusting know-it-alls. In a world where most had had blissfully little reason not to trust the Government’s word, that word prevailed.
“I can confirm that there are absolutely no plans to extend the Government’s ‘Good Health Rewards Scheme,” Mr. Wahazi, the Health Minister, had declared in Parliament around the same time, ostensibly putting the matter to rest, most people simply too busy with the treadmill of their lives to think too hard, or indeed at all, about the philosophical questions of Mill versus Rousseau and whether in this ditty little scorecard there might not lie the gateway to a fascist hell.
Jogging the last few paces of the field, she turned the corner.
From here, the dark, monstrous mass of The Complex could be made out, the towering, clinical symmetry of the Zeeta building and the huge oval structure of Demerna’s headquarters, its sharp, jagged edges and haloed centrepiece of spiked towers piercing the fog. However many times she ran this route her revulsion never diminished on sighting the colossal form springing up from the fringes of what had, only a few years before, been an expanse of countryside so peaceful and undisturbed that the first time she’d accidentally stumbled over it after moving up from London and realised it was only a stone’s throw from the house, she’d wept: actually wept, with the joy of understanding that there was a space so green and vast and sacred so close to where they lived.
A shuddering sneer. Like finding half a caterpillar on your dinner plate, or standing in dog poo, it was a reflexive reaction of which she was barely conscious and unable to control.
Shirles, to be fair, got it from the very first moment.
In Ella’s kitchen the day it was announced, Shirles had been listening to the lunchtime show on ADFREE News.
“Earlier today, Government announced its plans for the ‘Be Healthy’ voucher scheme. We want to hear your reaction,” the presenter was saying, as ever her straight talking Geordie accent sparking up their kitchen. “Do you think this is a good thing? Do you have concerns? Will you use it? Tweet us your thoughts.”
There was a bitter poignancy in thinking back to the days of phone-ins and free opinions and social media and presenters who were allowed to say what they thought and come to think of it entire TV channels broadcasting anything other than The Efficiency Agenda.
“I’m really not sure about this,” said Shirles, half watching, half chopping potatoes and shaking her head in a way that certainly had nothing to do with the potatoes. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
“Hmm, I dunno,” Ella had replied, launching into a moralising lecture about how there was a serious obesity crisis in this country and too many people who wouldn’t take responsibility for their own health and how at some point people who couldn’t make good decisions surely needed to be coaxed and if they couldn’t be coaxed then surely a little push was okay.
Listening indulgently, Shirles had eventually chimed back,
“Yes, but they make it bloody impossible for us, don’t they? All those e-numbers and crap in the food. Everything in the shops is packed with rubbish. Most people don’t have time to do anything about it. Why don’t they start by fixing the food? Then people could chose for themselves.”
Before Ella had had a chance to interject, Shirles was off again.
“Watch my words, it’ll not be weeks before they start demanding something in return. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could spit them,” she added, a final shake of her head sealing the matter.
Shirles, of course, was right.
A few short years later and benevolent aunt had morphed to oppressive patriarch, all the while slowly stewing us all in a soup of our own naïve, blind consent.
Now up against the boundary of The Complex, Ella could see clearly now the endless state and industry buildings in their awful grim glory — achromatic turrets of science labs, an array of concrete blocks the size of football pitches each competing to be uglier, more brutal, less welcoming than its neighbour, incinerators with furnaces 50 foot high; the whole thing slowly metastasising, a cancer devouring the countryside.
Shivering at her dreadful naïvety she checked the time. 2:45pm. The light was starting to go. If she got back now she just might be able to squeeze another hour of work in before she had to collect the kids. Turning on her heels, she jogged back the way she’d come.
A couple of hundred metres or so along, she glanced back over her shoulder. A tractor ploughed the last remaining field. Set against the metallic monstrosity behind, it looked tiny and forlorn, an insignificant anachronism in a world moved on.
Look out for chapter five next week.
M. Zermansky is a pseudonym.
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No mate, no one has to just accept anything! Neither pharmacists nor politicians have the right to determine how millions of people live their lives. You can advise all you like, but that’s it.
People need to start remembering they work for us, we pay their wages. Anyone who wishes to follow their advice should feel free to heed it, but none of them have the right, morally or legally, to force this on us. It is truly time for a political reawakening in the west.
I saw a headline in a Dutch daily earlier today saying that citizens would have to change their lives from now on because of corona. It was behind a paywall so I only saw the headline, but it’s rather coincidental it’s implying the same thing as this person in Australia. It’s almost as if its scripted…
If you’d like to read articles on Trouw, Volkskrant, Parool and NRC websites, even when they are behind a paywall, here is the trick: wait for the article to load completely. Then reload the page with F5, next hit Escape several times before page completely reloads. Et voila: the complete article becomes visible. Sometimes you have to repeat this for it to work, it needs timing. (Unforunately it doesn’t work for Telegraaf website.)
Try this proxy for the DT.
https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
Then once there you can browse around as normal.
Come and fucking make me.
I used to be a polite, respectful person.
But after 2 years of this bollox – “Come and fucking make me” has pretty much become my mindset now.
These c*nts need to re-learn that they don’t own other people’s bodies.
F*** off you drug dealer.
I agree with the head of the WHO.
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1473679943045468161?s=20
Boosters also kill adults. Long past tim for the politicians and their advisors to be sent to jail. Many of them though, may well need something more final than a prison cell.
for once I agree with the fact checkers. he started saying “kildren” then corrected himself.
Of course he probably made that mistake because he was actually thinking that they do kill children.
Fancy that, somebody pushing a policy stance which will provide another cash cow for his industry. I am surprised some of these thick journalists can actually read and write, let alone considering issues such as conflicts of interest when choosing who to interview.
Never ask a barber if you need a haircut…
It’s beginning to look a lot like genocide.
Excellent, that should have been Christmas no.1
Do they know it’s Genocide at all.
That’s a very fair assessment and genocide brought to you by your own government.
Has this individual done a proper risk benefit analysis of a twice yearly vaccine?
Eg, a few months ago the JCVI decided that the risks of the vaccine were greater than the benefits for those <18 (obviously this was overruled by non-experts in vaccines). This was based on having two doses. I’d presume that if they knew that a 16 year old would have 10+ doses by the time they left college the risk:benefit analysis would be firmly on the side of risk.
This is doubly true now that the risk of covid appears to be diminishing rapidly, as is the effectiveness of the vaccines.
I also wonder where this expert got their understanding of the effectiveness of mask wearing — ‘science’ says that they don’t offer any substantial protection.
The people pushing these policies are not incompetents they are high level criminals. criminals
Besides your comments on this, I have not seen one single reference made to what should be an obvious point.
Continued administration of any medical product carries risks, what are these risks, are they cumulative, etc. This should apply doubly to a completely new technology that is being applied, triply when the illness being tackled seems to be becoming less of a threat by the day.
It’s just not, and we won’t.
I really can’t stand any more of these idiotic people. With apologies for the language – this guy is a fucking moron. Just put the the cunt up against a wall and shoot him.
Can’t fault any of that. Precise and well thought out.
US Marine style – shout, show, shove, shoot.
With each new jab, less people take it than the one before.
This guy isn’t going to get his wish. The more they push, the more people will wake up and the fewer will take the next jab.
How does he account for the fact that the vast majority of the existence of mankind, we didn’t have vaccines and yet we didn’t become extinct?
I would hope that’s the case but what if they keep rolling out new ‘variants’?
Further proof of criminality.
‘But now we have the vaccines, and we have to take them, to guarantee health…’ is his dislogic.
It’s a shell game, with transparent shells, and punters still losing every time!
One should hope.
…then again, I don’t do hope.
What legitimate authority does this SS Dentist have over Australians or anyone else?
Isn’t what he is saying really that he want to make ‘loadsa money’ year on year out of a coerced and terrorized population, as medical capitalists dictate obedience and reap billions?
Time to form independent medical bodies to safeguard the real health interests of ordinary people, and ignore diktats from tools of Satan.
How are the Australian death camps doing?
How about every Australian has to give up a kidney as well?
What exactly was it that first attracted you to the multi billion dollar vaccine industry, Mr Twomey?
What a fucking tool! Not a shred of science…simply do as you’re told. This guy has zero authority and should shut his trap.
Australia is lost.
A Mad Max future is still a future of sorts!
In retrospect, Mad Max was optimistic.
Disgraceful hysterical extremist with a fetish
Trent Twomey, the National President of the Pharmacy Guild in Australia
There’s the clue, right there in the first line.
‘Stick this in your arm every 6 months, and I get to buy a beach-front mansion in Noosa’.
Over TWO winters……Australia’s C-19 mortality is 2,173…..they won’t reveal the profile of those who have been taken.
VIC…….1,476
NSW…..648
ACT……15
TAS……13
WA……9
QLD……7
SA……..4
NT…….1
Quite clearly, there is broad NATURAL IMMUNITY in the whole country.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper, more efficient and more lawful if instead of jabbing the whole country, they tested everyone for immunity?
Or just abolished the entire shaet show and then shot the shites.
No masks, tests or vaccines needed. The figures above amount to little more than a mild cold. Twomey is part of the Gates criminal conspiracy to depopulate and control the few that will survive the 5G sensitive nanotech “poison death shots”.
Nothing can beat the immunity created by the Wonder vaccines!!!!
This should be the case in every country – the UK included. It’s vital and valuable data but it doesn’t fit with the tunnel-vision vaccine agenda.
Not really a suprise. These people are deranged
Never had one, will never have one. Model that Cobber.
The Premier of NSW and the PM have rejected mandates for masks and vaccines.Try again, numbnuts.
Go Fuck yourself Trent.
President of Australian Pharmacy Guild says that people MUST accept a drug that Big Pharma make huge profits from……..well, he’s not stupid is he? But he also thinks that we are.
The full vaccinated will never be fully vaccinated…..
……..yet nobody knows what continued jabbing will do to peoples’ immune systems.
Its like those books we read as kids with mad scientists (trying) to rule the world
Just like the flu, if anyone wants periodic jabs be my guest. This fight is about mandates and digital passports
I’d actually encourage the former.
The sooner we will be rid of the most fanatic ones, like him.
My sister-in-law is a senior pharmacist in the UK, good at what she does but is incapable of independent thought or reasoning, and I absolutely would not take any kind of health advice from her at face value.
She is currently ill with ‘covid’ after three jabs, but dots have most certainly not been joined, no sir.
Sorry to hear that. Like millions, she is probably brainwashed to never flinch at the prospect of dozens of vaccines still to come – with neither one ever ‘working’.
God help us all.
Alas, for her they are working.
She obviously would have been twice as poorly without them.
Doh!
Alternatively, you can accept you have to sniff the hair of an agitated honey badger.
Maybe we could agree to accept it on the understanding the pfizer publish all details to do with the vaccine trails and also that the vaccine manufactures agree to take full financial liability for any adverse reactions. If they do not trust their products enough to do this then why should we put them in our bodies.
I think Pfizer trust them to do what they are meant to do. They just don’t want the public knowing what that is.
Meanwhile, just to prove there are sane people in Australia, the resignation letter of a Queensland doctor, forced to resign by political fascists after 41 years for reasons of bureaucratic madness:
https://cmnnews.org/story/letter-from-a-doctor-to-a-health-minister-T7iSvHSp3c1aADxdwCvoD
That’s a beaut of a letter.
A brilliant letter!
Good! We always said and knew that all of this stuff was going to be forever, so the more openly this is made clear, the better, as it will wake more people up.
The problem people have understanding what is going on, is their continuing naive belief that national governments control the agenda. They don’t, haven’t for some time.
Its an alliance of big finance, transnational corporations, tech and bio-tech under the umbrella of organisations such as the BIS.
The control is not classical command structure, its far more nebulous. There are no ‘heads’ to cut off. Its much more an alignment of interests. But make no mistake these lose affiliations control the world.
They have seen an opportunity even dire need to reinvent the capitalist financial models after 2008. They have endured a couple of resent setbacks; Brexit and Trump. They decided that the general dumbing down and messaging of the western nations had proceeded to such an extent that a suitable ‘enemy’ could instill enough fear to bring about the necessary social changes that ensured a runway to installation of the totalitarian state necessary to manage the ‘reset’.
The timing of omicron ensures that ’28dayPCR’ rule will bring increased reported deaths, however mild the variant might be. This will get them over the final hurdle of mandated vaccinations and the ‘passport’ which is the bio-ID required for control as it expands to cover all aspects of what will pass for ‘life’.
I share people’s desire for optimism, that omicron will prove the turning point. If it was really about health and it had just been bungled from the start our optimism is well founded.
However in the words of my current favourite Scot ‘ Its not about what they say its about’ and for many the final confirmation of that is shortly to happen.
All those above saying Australia has gone mad, do you really think the same thing won’t be rolled out everywhere else? How else are they going to justify their passports and why do you think they’re currently going nuts over boosters here?
But thankfully the propaganda juggernaut is appearing to derail elsewhere.
I posted this on the daily update page a bit earlier about Portugal:
“Despite being vaccine leaders and over 83% of their over-65s boosted, it appears Portugal is reimplementing harsh restrictions:
https://www.portugalresident.com/omicron-wave-portugal-plunged-into-morass-of-new-measures/
The positive note is how balanced, if not sceptical, the article is.
Only a few weeks ago it probably would have been censored and labelled conspiracy-theory material.
We’re starting to see some progress people!”
And as you may already be aware, over here we’ve got the likes of bedwetter-in-chief Owen Jones suddenly realising that perhaps lockdowns & restrictions are not such a good idea.
Owen Jones; I remember his name. Must have read some of his articles years ago.
Apparently Bruce McScrotum of the Australian Used Car Dealers Association said that it’s quite clear that every Australian citizen has to come to terms with having to purchase a used car every six months .. there are no other options
Just think it was about this time last year that the pig dictator was vomiting out the lie, a vaccine is available and once the vulnerable are vaccinated we can return to normal. Happy anniversary bedwetters, book your 4th jab when you have your 3rd.
Or maybe Trent Twomey will need to accept being carted off to a dung heap by a pitchfork-wielding mob. He’s playing a high stakes game with his crazy ass announcements for sure.
Trent, Could I see the long-term data on having multiple boosters over a prolonged period of time of this so-called “vaccine” please? Oh, there isn’t any is there? As a fit and healthy adult in his 30s – who has recovered from COVID-19 – with two dependents, I think I will not take part in that experiment thank you. Last time I checked, I lived in a liberal democracy not a totalitarian state (although we have been heading that way and time will tell if I am mistaken) so I do not have to “just need to accept” your nonsense.
Meanwhile in Denmark:
“”There’s something antigenic in Denmark: boosters show negative vaccine efficacy for cases”
vaccines, including boosters are showing strong negative efficacy vs omicron
this is consistent with omicron being as OAS enabled escape variant
omicron continues to show evidence of mildness relative to past variant
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/theres-something-antigenic-in-denmark
What he needs is a swift kick in the Bollocks !!!…
Wow, Trent must be going for the biggest brown envelope of all from his NWO & Big Pharma overlords.
Just reverse the Shute formula and nuke Australia.
…it’s the kindest thing you could do for the incarcerated, there.
Just. Say. No!
I used to fancy an extended holiday in Australia and NZ. You couldn’t pay me to go there now.
When such jabs provide less and less benefit (and the immune response has declined with each dose), the costs will be noticed and debated. There will also be more and more evidence on T and B cell instead of antibodies as the key to Covid response.
Might such booster still be “required” for those over 60? Sure, not that it will be enforced. In the end they can’t keep Covid fear going forever and as it slips away, people simply won’t comply.
Ivermectin help reduce the severity of vaccine adverse reactions. If someone is suffering from a post vaccine syndrome, FLCCC clinicians and a growing network of colleagues have reported significant clinical responses to ivermectin. Because Ivermectin has 5 different mechanisms of action against coronaviruses, the medication is also effective with the different variants of the virus. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Trent, the Covid Gravy Train is closer to the end of the line than you can imagine.
I’m so so glad I’m not Australian. I thought I was living in a madhouse.
It would appear that descendants of the Nazi hierarchy moved to Australia as well as South America!!