My sanity has take a bashing the last 8 months. Others have described it as living in a parallel universe. Thank you 'Lockdown Sceptics' and others for the common sense grounding.
Indeed - it's really nice to be able to discuss some of this stuff without facing a barrage of abuse for going against the "science", as others see it 😕
There are so many things that simply don't stack up about the "official" narrative, but ultimately there is a battle of perception going on I think.
All of a sudden, it seems, we decided that the way to react to a pandemic, which even in the early stages we knew was primarily dangerous for older people, or those with comorbidities, was to lockdown healthy people - the myth of asymptomatic spreaders emerged, as did the myth of the fabled super-spreaders. People who, without any symptoms, were able to deliver, allegedly, such quantities of virus as to overwhelm the feeble immune defences of those whom they came into contact with. Some healthy people must just be spewing out massive viral loads with every breath I guess.
Myth piled upon myth - masks are essential and work wonderfully, touching an un-sanitized object or surface is really dangerous and might give you covid, immunity might only last a few months, everyone needs to take the vaccine, everyone is potentially susceptible, mass testing was the way forward, track and tracing was the way forward, young healthy people need to stay inside and not mingle, herd immunity is inhumane.
All inspired by a wholly unbalanced reaction to a virus that is, admittedly, worse than the flu for the vulnerable, but a long, long, long way from being as scary as Ebola.
I actually worry about the long-term psychological damage. I have never lived in fear of touching a bank note, or a button in an elevator - still don't have any fear - but there's a sizable number of people who seem to think every object is some sort of bioweapon delivery mechanism. Indeed, I've never felt afraid to talk to people face-to-face, instead of having to shout at them from 2 metres away!
All inspired by a wholly unbalanced reaction to a virus that is, admittedly, worse than the flu for the vulnerable, but a long, long, long way from being as scary as Ebola.
I actually worry about the long-term psychological damage. I have never lived in fear of touching a bank note, or a button in an elevator - still don't have any fear - but there's a sizable number of people who seem to think every object is some sort of bioweapon delivery mechanism. Indeed, I've never felt afraid to talk to people face-to-face, instead of having to shout at them from 2 metres away!
I have been dismayed by peoples universal mask wearing. Black seems to be the preferred fashion statement so a supermarket seems to be populated by SWAT teams on their lunchbreak. I refuse to wear a mask but find check-out staff almost over-friendly but in local Lidl yesterday there were 3 shoppers brazenly unmasked. Thin end of the wedge ?
Watch Tom Woods' latest video "What I Told State Legislators About Lockdowns". He reminds me I'm the one who's sane.
