Luke Johnson
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Constantly surprised at how many intelligent, healthy people I meet who are living in fear of Covid. I show them the actual data and they’re shocked. This govt’s fear mongering has been the most successful gaslighting exercise of all time.
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I think the public have no idea of the savage price increases of all sorts of items barrelling towards them. Food, energy, transport - the cost of living is rising in real terms at the fastest pace in 40 years. The new pandemic.
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Time has shown that the Swedish approach to Covid was the rational and civilised one. The New Zealand strategy has been a disaster.
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Lockdowns and govt scaremongering have made the nation depressed, frightened, poorer, anti-social, lonely, less fit, hypochondriac, anxious and heavily indebted. SAGE say the evidence they save lives is ‘weak’. These policies are institutional lunacy.
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This lockdown will be worse than last time: 1/. It will be dark, cold and wet not sunny and warm; 2/. Many more of us now know govt and advisors haven’t a clue ; 3/. 80% furlough gone ; 4/. Mental health toll much more severe. All so futile.
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Covid has revealed that huge numbers of seemingly intelligent people are actually incapable of thinking for themselves, and will slavishly follow any govt instructions, however stupid. Fear makes people into cowardly zombies.
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Net zero future - zero heating, zero flights, zero cars, zero money, zero jobs, zero meat, zero happiness etc.
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Colleague just back from Florida. Says it is paradise compared to Britain: everything open, schools operating normally, minimal social distancing, low unemployment, lower death toll than here etc. There was always an alternative to repeated lockdowns.
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So - my son just mugged for his bus pass etc in central London. I had my phone stolen last year. Meanwhile police busy fussing about non mask wearing, offensive tweets etc. Lockdown is catastrophe for genuine policing and real law and order.
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Net Zero is a form of economic and social suicide
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It's amazing how sanctimonious the lockdown fanatics are about keeping everyone under lockdown. Just 33 people under 40 in England have died from Covid - there are probably 30m of them. Is it proportionate to deprive them of life, liberty, education, work, relationships?
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I think lockdowns, social distancing, remote working, school closures and Covid fear propaganda have impaired civil relationships. Two years of these profoundly anti social restrictions have undermined our empathy towards others and made society less happy and angrier.
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If the NHS becomes overwhelmed, it will be because so many staff have tested positive (but are not sick) and are obliged to isolate and miss work. That’s a self inflicted collapse.
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Front page of The Times today: “Vaccination of a million teenagers would prevent only two admissions to intensive care for Covid.” Jabbing millions of 12 to 15-year-olds against JCVI advice is unscientific nonsense.
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In coming weeks, the news will steadily shift from the horrors of the virus to the horrors caused by the lockdown. The lockdown fanatics will gradually fall silent as the truth dawns amid the wreckage.
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Why on earth is anyone testing for Covid? Do we ‘test’ for colds - or even flu? The test suppliers keep the gravy train running and the fear alive. It’s all nonsense on stilts. When will the Covid cult ever end?
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Amazing how many lockdown trolls there are - loving house arrest, masks, social distancing - hoping places that re open suffer a ‘second wave’ - wanting more Swedish deaths - keen on destroying our economy. They’re in full blown hysteria.
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Among the most damaging legacies of Covid/lockdowns are neurotic risk aversion, an inability to judge trade offs, and an obsession with safety. These are hallmarks of a society in decline. We need to recapture a spirit of growth and adventure. Otherwise, what’s the point?
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So today millions are enjoying the beautiful weather - and quite possibly breaking the law. The govt’s dystopian restrictions are clearly wrong if so many honest citizens are flouting them. The cruel and disproportionate lockdowns are finished.
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I’ve noticed that the fearful lockdown fanatics are changing their tune since hospitalisations, deaths etc have fallen to low levels. Now the great threat is LONG COVID. These neurotic people are addicted to the drama and fear, and are a danger to our wellbeing.
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Time to dump the whole Covid industrial complex: testing, masks, Perspex screens, self isolation, signs etc - end the fear, monomania, hypochondria, hysteria. We are recalled to life. Onwards!
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Proof just now that the TV health ‘experts’ haven’t a clue. Doctor on GMTV stated the test and trace app has saved 600,000 lives! When I challenged him he retracted - supposed figure is 8,000. They are scaremongering jokers.
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All of a sudden people are realising the crisis isn't Covid but the cost of living and energy bills. People will now wake up to the real price of green madness - and the debt/inflation legacies of shutting economies down for years with universal restrictions.
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This young lady needs to understand that to 25/2/21, just 84 people under 40 with no co-morbidity have died from Covid in English hospitals. The govt/media have literally scared many people senseless.
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We will open the doors of our venues come what may on 21 June. The government's incoherence and mistakes have totally undermined their authority.
Exclusive: Nightlife sector ‘may open doors’ on 21 June regardless of rules - it needs to as it is the most vulnerable having been closed with no revenue for 16 months via
@cityam
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1/. What’s bizarre about lockdowns is that they seem to be supported fanatically by socialists. Yet lockdowns are self evidently increasing inequalities in all directions. The poor are more likely to lose their jobs; their children are less likely to get educated
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Society has definitely gone mad. In our desperate attempts to be ‘safe’ we are making work, education, entertainment, sports, travel and hospitality almost unviable. This preposterous risk aversion will make us unhappy, poorer and more vulnerable. We need to get a grip.
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The brutal truth is that we cannot afford a second lockdown. This time there won’t be millions bailed out by furlough - there will just be millions of unemployed and thousands of bankrupt employers and evictions. And the virus will return when the lockdown ends.
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The idea the UK should take pandemic advice from Matthew Taylor, now head of quango NHS Confederation, is beyond a joke. He has a sociology degree from Southampton. I was his RSA chair for three years. He knows politics - but not healthcare/science.
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We have exhausted our collective mental and economic reserves thanks to repeated lockdowns. Our freedoms have been eviscerated, our children’s education crushed, livelihoods obliterated, other diseases neglected. Once we escape mass house arrest we must vow: Never again.
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I estimate it will have cost the taxpayer at least £60 billion by the time furlough ends in April. Was it really a great idea to forcibly idle millions for almost a year? Did it really save lives? How much healthcare could we have bought for £60 billion?
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We are still treating Covid like Ebola when it has become the flu. No wonder productivity is so weak, and the NHS performing so badly. When will the hysteria end?
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Boris scaremongering - “emergency” “tidal wave” - he’s never had a clue what he’s talking about over Covid. He’s rattled because no one trusts him, the Tories are slumping in the polls, and there’s a big rebellion over Tuesday’s vote. This is a distraction tactic.
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Already the lockdown and Covid fear promoters are pushing idea that restrictions won’t be lifted until summer. All restrictions should go once the 8.5m aged 70+ are vaccinated. The rest of us are almost all low or v low risk.
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On the tube just now several passengers were in fancy dress, obviously heading to NYE parties. This was an ice-breaker which led to friendly banter between strangers. The fear is evaporating as ‘22 starts, and humanity and fun are having a comeback. Roll on good times.
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The lockdown psychos are lobbying ferociously again for more unproven, destructive restrictions. But now polls show people have had enough: the harms to our mental health and economy are insupportable. The scaremongers can go to hell.
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Is it a coincidence that every single decision about Covid which destroys jobs and businesses is being made by politicians and health advisors in the public sector, whose jobs and pensions face no threat from lockdowns and other bad policies?
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Under lockdowns we have surrendered so much of our humanity we don’t even realise just how diminished our lives are.
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So many hypocrites on Twitter tonight suddenly complaining about a lockdown which they have been supporting for the last year. If you surrender basic freedoms then you end up with a police state. So time to end the lockdown now.
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The most destructive academic in the world
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It’s fascinating how authoritarian both Canada and Australia have become over Covid. Both countries used to be seen as easygoing and friendly. Now they each seem to be embracing CCP style controls of their citizens. I wonder why?
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Society has become fixated on disease and death over Covid for which: average victim is around 80; 95% of victims had a co-morbidity; since it started 85% of people have died from other causes. We have lost all sense of proportion and are suffering from morbid monomania.
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Lockdown-free Sweden now seeing 'very positive' coronavirus decline as country’s health chief slams masks as ‘pointless’
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The 7.5m on furlough need to realise that every week on lockdown means fewer of them will have a job when the hysteria ends. The virus represents a very low risk to healthy working age people. They should be pressing to end the lockdown more than anyone.
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The govt are going to supply the ‘evidence’ proving lockdowns are worth it at the last minute, so MPs have no time to study or debate the material. This is an old trick. Govt and SAGE more manipulative and disreputable than ever.
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I still meet people who smugly explain how they had a ‘great lockdown’. Astonishing that they remain oblivious to the accumulation of catastrophic collateral damage from lockdowns. History will surely condemn lockdowns as the worst policy in a generation.
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We have suffered almost six months of relentless fear propaganda from govt., exacerbated by media. This has generated unprecedented anxiety in entire population inevitably leading to huge mental health problems. The NHS is semi closed
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We are now paying the price for surrendering our basic rights and freedoms so cheaply last year. This lying and incompetent govt seem unwilling to return them. So many seem to enjoy living under house arrest in a tyranny.
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The lockdown cultists hate Sweden and Florida. They show that lockdowns were unnecessary, and have caused huge net harms for no gains.
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The World Health Organisation has lost all credibility | The Spectator
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Wrong headline - they mean the devastating toll of LOCKDOWNS on children
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Jacinda Ardern was a Covid tyrant and hypocrite – her damehood is a travesty
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The biggest threat from lockdowns is that we complied so quietly. We surrendered our rights and freedoms without a whimper. Now the authorities will feel empowered to use them again - another virus, another ‘threat’. A terrible precedent has been set.
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The 27 year old daughter of an old work colleague of my wife has committed suicide. These deaths are due to lockdown. It makes me very angry. The govt must publish the statistics - then we can see the grim toll of their demented policies.
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We are paying an enormous price for the bad science behind Covid lockdowns
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Mask wearing all day for children in school is cruel and unscientific.
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Private sector employees are 85% of the workforce. They are the ones facing redundancy thanks to lockdowns. But every advisor from SAGE etc lobbying for lockdowns is part of public sector in safe jobs. Easy for them to virtue signal.
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The Green Party is a doomsday cult which wants to make Britain dramatically poorer and colder.
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We are being told ‘lockdown/social distancing is saving lives’ when in fact it’s crippling the proper functioning of schools, hospitals, public transport, offices, shops, social life etc. Bad science and irrational fear has broken society.
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Govt plans to post 400,000 tests a day to homes in a new testing blitz. Britain already has almost highest number of tests per million conducted of any country. But testing mania hasn’t stopped perhaps highest death toll per million. Govt keep pursuing failed policies.
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The last 14 months have amply demonstrated what mediocre individuals society recruits as MPs /ministers. Once parliamentarians were the best and the brightest. Now they are mostly third rate jobsworths, unfit to run anything, let alone a country.
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Easy for those with no skin in the game to applaud more lockdowns which smash businesses. Entrepreneurs spend years building a business: only for govt to destroy it. Like seeing your dream home, into which you poured your life savings, burned to the ground.
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Ultimately lockdowns did for Boris. If he had held his nerve and replicated the Swedish response to Covid then the country would be in a much better state, and he would be safe. Instead a savage recession has started which will cause epic misery.
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Coronavirus has emboldened every hypochondriac on earth to let rip with their obsessive, self absorbed neuroses. This is not a healthy society - in every sense. Fed by a fatuous idea that everything must be ‘safe’. As if infectious diseases were only discovered in 2020.
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I’m the co-owner of
@AssemblyFest
venues at Edinburgh fringe. I think
@RealJSadowitz
is very funny and talented - and offensive. That’s the point.
@ThePleasance
can get stuffed telling other venues to ban artists just because they lost their bottle.
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Four Covid deaths a day is 1% of the average daily deaths from cancer. But we are dismantling society because of Covid obsession. When will we come to our senses and get things in proportion?
We have a localised problem in a single hospital. Otherwise we are averaging 4 covid deaths per day; we are burning down the house to swat a fly.
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Lockdown has turned Britain into the Soviet Union
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Lockdowns were an egregious example of bureaucrat megalomania on the rampage. State functionaries get their thrills from such exercise of power. They gave no evidence for the effectiveness of lockdowns, no cost/benefit analysis. Now societies are paying the awful price.
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The cost of living crisis is principally a result of misguided Covid restrictions and govt interventions in the economy. Anyone who cannot understand this is a fool or in denial.
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Average age of Covid victims is 82 and in September Covid was 19th cause of death
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It's time to ignore the lockdown fanatics and open for business
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Probably twice as many (4m+) are on furlough as registered unemployed. How much will unemployment rise when furlough ends? Every week of lockdown will add to the bankruptcies and destroyed jobs. But no job losses for ministers or SAGE members!
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Open the champagne! The tyrants have started to fall. Let us hope this is just the start of the unraveling of Project Fear and Lockdowns.
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Eventually they will all be fired and disgraced for gross incompetence and lying - including Boris and his dismal cabinet. They sought high office - and should pay the price for unforgivable mistakes
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All the Omicron scaremongers are in safe jobs and can work from home. They don’t care if they help to obliterate industries like hospitality and travel with disproportionate restrictions. Because they need to feel ‘safe’. Irrational fear is more infectious and powerful than CV.
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91% of Covid deaths occurred in 15% of population at highest risk - old and infirm. This risk profile was known by March 2020. But ‘experts’ still crashed society over 2 years for everyone with destructive and ineffective lockdowns. Worst policy error in modern history.
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Hancock is a power mad zombie
BREAKING: Anybody attempting to conceal that they’ve been in a country on the government’s red list in the 10 days before arriving in the UK will face a prison sentence of up to 10 years says Matt Hancock.
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When will we get apologies from Sky and the BBC?
"We Failed"
One of the largest newspapers in Denmark is apologizing for its journalistic failure during COVID-19 by only publishing official government messages without questioning them. Via
@Niemandsknecht
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The last 18 months have taught us how media fear propaganda can scare millions of people into becoming terrified robots.
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In the long term, one of the most harmful consequences of the West’s hysterical reaction to Covid will be the signal it sends to China. The restrictions, our meek compliance and general overreactions will show them we are soft and easily manipulated.
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The govt and their scientific advisors are so arrogant that they think you can stop and start livelihoods, workplaces, businesses, investment, transport, education etc as if it’s a motor. None of them understand the harm their lockdowns cause.
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At least a few MPs have some moral courage. The rest are virtue signalling cowards.
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I admire the stoicism of millions who tolerate lockdown, but I’m surprised so few appear to question the competence of our political and scientific leaders. We should not passively comply when it’s pretty obvious that the authorities are clueless.
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The epidemiologists are gradually acknowledging that Sweden got it right. I said this on TV in May. So let’s learn from Sweden. Better late than never. Lockdowns don’t work. That generate more harms than benefits.
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Just did interview on BBC 5 Live. Whenever you criticise lockdown and govt fear campaigns they ask: “What would you say to someone who’s relative died?” All emotional blackmail and virtue signalling. A country cannot be organised on such a sentimental basis.
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So many lockdown advocates are un-self aware hypocrites. They pretend they care about keeping the vulnerable safe. But they just don’t care that the main victims of lockdowns are the poor - lost jobs, evictions, mental health issues. I guess those people don’t count.
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Lockdowns show that inside almost every public health professor there lurks a totalitarian who wants to order everyone around ‘for their own good’.
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This is Copenhagen now. All hospitality open - no masks, no social distancing. Back to being human and having an economy and a life. When will we shrug off the paralysing and exaggerated fear?
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Why on earth is anyone taking what this hypocritical man says seriously? His track record is diabolical. He invents it as he goes along. His forecasts have caused untold damage. When will politicians and the media realise that he’s a fraud?
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I think the unnatural confinement of millions to their homes, combined with a relentless blizzard of fear propaganda from the media, is making many antisocial, scared and mistrustful. There are likely to be harmful long term consequences to the nation’s mental health.
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Lockdowns show just how compliant and unquestioning many people are when the govt scares them witless. How meekly we surrendered our liberties, and how easily we allowed the authorities to destroy our way of life.
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Welcome to England in 2021. The most timid society in history. Just remember: the expert advisors will always think of a new reason to be afraid.
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67m citizens are having a gradual mental breakdown thanks to lockdowns. But it’s all for the greater good you understand. Because Boris/Hancock/SAGE are to be trusted.
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Many left wingers are lockdown fanatics because they saw it was bad for business, good for Big Govt, they have totalitarian leanings and because at heart they are lazy. They’re happy to smash society to advance the socialist cause.
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It’s interesting that it takes a missing tennis player for people to realise just how truly corrupt, dishonest and evil the Chinese Communist Party is.
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Sweden spent less than 10% of what Britain spent on the pandemic per head, but got overall much better outcomes. Because they didn’t lock down.
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Fraser Nelson writes that Sage members who did not agree with lockdowns were threatened with being fired.
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This pandemic has revealed that large numbers of people don’t understand concepts like risk, freedom or mortality.
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Over last 48 hours I’ve spoken with a number of entrepreneurs and business leaders. Mood is increasingly one of despair. The animal spirits are being crushed by govt fear mongering and dystopian New Normal. Tories are now the anti business party.
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It’s increasingly clear that mask wearing is a form of sadomasochism combined with an element of virtue signalling. The evidence in favour is weak: but the discomfort and alienation is real. It is just a bit of pathetic theatre really.
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