They do, keep them terrified and enough will, as now, demand to be locked up. Stockholm syndrome is a very real thing.
Why would immune people be terrified?
I am not at all optimistic.
Coronaviruses have existed for ever. They are the basis of the common cold. This is just a variant slightly more problematic than others. it is not a genuine plague or anything like that. It is not even as bad as the Asian flu of 57-58.
So, this is nothing about cases, deaths, data or anything medical or scientific. This has become about justifying the hysteria.
Coronavirus will never go away. No virus ever goes away. How will the hysteria go away without admitting it was wrong in the first place?
That will be impossible. Drum-beaters of the hysterics will always cry that they were/are right and the only way to do so, is to maintain the hysteria. They have painted themselves into a corner. Witty is talking about restrictions next winter. I have read reports about masks being permanently mandated. For ever.
The WHO is hopelessly compromised, politically. For the first time in its history it has a non-medic in charge and is changing its own rule book to suit the politics.
The only way out of this will be through confrontation and conflict. Not necessarily the physical type - which would be terrible - but economic and political. The massive damage to people's lives cannot be concealed for ever. By April, a budget needs to be presented and I believe it is going to be absolutely awful.
Ending furlough is going to be a disaster because most of the "jobs" being supported have already vanished, and the government knows it. Confronting this reality is going to be painful. People's lives will be destroyed at a stroke.
They cannot afford to extend this new unemployment benefit in disguise. The bill for the hysteria is already approaching £250bn if not higher. If they print much more to grow the magic money forest (the Bank of England created £150bn out of thin air last October) then inflation will go up and the cost of the record-breaking national debt, already topping £2tn, will shoot up, further messing up the national economy, and sterling will devalue, a bad thing for a country that has largely abandoned manufacturing and needs imports, which will drive prices up more, which could drive interest rates higher ...
To put this in context, as Freddie Attenborough presented in a good essay on the 57-58 Asian flu epidemic, the cost of that event, when the government did little other than just advising people to avoid large crowds, was around £2.6bn in today's money.
To counter the cheap and false argument that anti-lockdown is "all about money", these figures are reflections of the damage being done to people's lives. Money is a measuring stick, not an objective in itself. The destruction of livelihoods means poverty. And that means people leading harder, harsher lives and which also means poor health, shorter life expectancy and everything that goes with it. The wealth of a well-run nation is about the health and happiness of the population, not how many jets a handful of billionaires have.
A political solution is needed at the ballot box and at the moment the option does not really exist. In the UK, I do not believe Mr Farage can offer a viable alternative. He comes with too much baggage. The Labour party is hopeless. The Conservatives are split. Something needs to shake this up, and hopefully the budget will switch on the lights. It has to.
Yes, but Teebs think of all those expensive vaccines we can sell the world!
All the out of work bar-staff will be retrained (remember Boris' big pledge to retrain people to give them new skills a few months back - now we see it) to work in labs (if they aren't already working in the PCR testing labs - mildly joking) round the clock to meet the next unprecedented demand for a quick turnaround vaccine next year and into infinity....HURRRAAH!
The furlough scheme is a mystery - the "job retention payment" of a grand or whatever it was disappeared when the new lockdown measures were decided upon last year - but if there is a plan to kill off the pub industry and small owner-managed high-street business, then all they will say is look at how much we did to support everyone until the 11th hour i.e. market forces end up killing those jobs, not the govt ("We will do...ev-ry-thing-it-takes" is sooo last year).
Why would immune people be terrified?
Why would they be immune?
And there are some people who wont leave the house until everyone has been vaccinated and think masks and 2m should be kept forever more.
Plenty of people.
Boris is offering the public a deal saying vaccines offer “the means of escape” from lockdown.
Yes. Quite understandaby, the government are promoting vaccinations as the only way out because they are simply little pricks.
