Monday 13 September 2021
Those respectable disguises
On the long list of those respectable disguises under which we assert our own importance, or gratify our own love of meddling in our neighbour's affairs, a moral regard for the welfare of others figures in the foremost place, and stands deservedly as number one.
Wilkie Collins - Man and Wife (1870)
That’s a few jobs done, evening meal finished and dishwasher chugging away. Time to scan the headlines, but great heavens what have we here? The coronavirus mess is in the news again!
A striking feature of the coronavirus debacle is how the UK government and the media have used it to swamp our attention. A related and equally striking feature is how the swamping has been accepted.
Yet we might suppose that our attention is a most private matter, a key aspect of our personal world, our personal space and the importance we attach to all manner of encounters. All that has changed and as things are, seems likely to have changed forever.
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We now see that vaccinations are required for schoolchildren. And that boosters are to be given for the over-50s. The BBC seems to have an endless stock of people with their sleeves rolled up with nurses injecting them. Did they make this much fuss over smallpox and polio?
SV: They've realised that they shot(!) themselves in the financial foot by making vaccines which worked and cut off the money supply. Now they've sussed that it's much more profitable to invent "vaccines" which aren't vaccines and may or may not work then have them promoted by bought shill politicians and our self-apponted "betters".
Sam - I don't think this much fuss has been made about any disease since the Black Death.
Jannie - I suspect the pharmaceutical giants have persuaded governments that vaccination and mass testing are the future of national health systems. It's possible they are right but the role of guinea pig is not attractive.
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