Why is the ’left’- or what passes these days for the ’left’, so keen on locking the workers down? The new, progressive buzzword isn’t ‘lockdown’ but ‘circuit-breaker’. A ‘two or three’ week ‘circuit-breaker’ could give us time ‘to fight the virus’ its proponents claim, as they clutch their Starbucks coffee mugs.
Yesterday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer Q.C., who takes us all for mugs- upped the ante by directly calling for Boris Johnson to impose a ‘circuit-breaker’. One thing of we can be absolutely sure: A ‘two or three week’ ‘circuit break’ wouldn’t be for ‘two or three weeks’. There’s no way ‘cases’, defined by a positive test result from ramped-up PCR tests which the Deputy PM himself has admitted have a very high rate of false positives, will drop in ‘two or three weeks’.
They are expressly designed for ‘cases’ to keep going up: the more you test people with not-fit-for-purpose tests which creates a high number of false positives then obviously the more ’cases’ you will find. No, the ‘two or three week’ ‘circuit-breaker’ that Starmer wants would last the whole winter, even beyond.
Once it is imposed, it will keep being renewed. Remember, the original lockdown was only supposed to be for three weeks ‘to flatten the curve’, but ended up lasting over three months. Our globalist politicians, who are working faithfully to implement the ‘Great Reset/WEF’ agenda, which is about bringing in radical changes to our economy and society under the guise of ‘fighting a virus’, know they can’t come out now, in mid-October and say ‘You’re all going to be locked down again until the spring’, so they do it in stages.
Who knows, if we’re good little children and comply with the new diktats we MAY be allowed to celebrate Christmas Day with our families. So long as we all wear face masks.
A proper Opposition party would be opposing the government’s latest draconian restrictions, but for Labour, the Tory restrictions never go far enough. It’s been the same since March. The same people who were telling us in February that Boris Johnson’s government was the most ‘extremist‘ ‘far-right‘ government we’d ever had,(even ’fascist’ in some cases), were, a few weeks later, screeching for the self-same ‘extremist’ ‘far-right‘ ’fascist’ government to lock everyone down!
The sad truth is that so-called ‘progressives’ and ‘anti-fascists’ have been the Conservative government’s Great Enablers.
When there was talk of the lockdown being eased, Labour politicians and activists were there with their #ExtendTheLockdown hashtag. And as soon as testing was ramped up and ‘cases’ started rising, they were there to tell us it was the long-awaited ‘second wave’ and that ‘Something has to be done!’.
The dominant ‘left’ narrative is that the Tory government, following a ‘herd immunity’ strategy, didn’t lock us down early enough in March, and they eased lockdown too early in the summer. And they are making the same ‘mistake’ again, meaning many lives will be lost. But the narrative is irrational, hysterical, unscientific hogwash- and that‘s putting it mildly. Just take a look at the table of Coronavirus (Covid-19) deaths worldwide per capita of population.
The two countries right at the top, Peru and Belgium, both locked down hard and early. Spain, Italy and Britain, all of whom had long lockdowns had worse results than Sweden which didn’t. Belarus, a country whose so-called ‘dictator’ Alexander Lukashenko, didn’t lock down his people- and recommended them visit a sauna twice a day and drink some vodka instead- is way down the table with just 95.52 deaths per million of population.
Nicaragua, which didn’t lock anyone down either is even lower with just 23.82 deaths per million. Compare that to ’Lockdown Central’ Peru which has 1.044.69.
Even Sir Keir Starmer acknowledges that in 19 of the 20 areas of Britain which have been under the harshest restrictions, what he calls ‘infection rates (but are really just ‘positive’ test results) have gone up and not down.
So what does Labour say?: ‘We want another lockdown!’ Oops, sorry ‘Circuit-Breaker’. To add insult to injury, the ‘Circuit-Break’ extremists have the gall to say they are’ following the science’, when they clearly are not. Even the academic behind the ‘circuit-break’ study- which Starmer is basing his policy on- admits his death figures were wildly over-estimated and he wishes he ‘hadn’t put these numbers in the study’.
The evidence shows that lockdowns - even on their own terms- are abysmal failures.
Britain is in crisis right now- but it’s a crisis not caused by ‘Coronavirus/Covid19’ but by the measures, politicians have enacted under the guise of ‘fighting the virus’.
UK government debt rose about £2 trillion for the first time in August. Yes, that’s right two TRILLION. It’s telling that the one leading Cabinet member who if reports are true, opposes a ‘circuit-breaker’, is Chancellor Rishi Sunak. He knows, better than anyone else, what a terrible financial position the country is in.
The truth is we can’t afford another lockdown, whatever fancy name is given to it. The cost to jobs and mental health is likely to be enormous. Every day we read of more suicides by people who can’t cope with the hideously anti-human ’New Normal’. The prospect of another long lockdown will be too much for many people, who are already at the end of their tether.
They call it a ‘circuit-breaker’, but really what Sir Keir Starmer proposes would be a ‘people-breaker’. So why is Labour so keen? Throughout 2020, much of the ‘left’ has been on the wrong side of the argument. Not just in Britain, but elsewhere, self-described ‘leftists’ have been the biggest supporters of locking people down and the draconian restrictions which are ruining people’s lives.
Victoria, in Australia, where millions of Melbourians have been under house arrest for 23 hours a day, is ruled by the Australian Labour Party. Spain and Italy, two other countries where there’s been harsh lockdowns, have ‘leftist’ or ‘left-leaning’ governments. But there is another left out there too, a more genuine one, which has rejected Covid authoritarianism. Sweden is led by a Social Democratic/Green coalition. Belarus is the closest Europe gets to old-style communism- and there’s there has been no lockdown.
Ditto Nicaragua, led by the veteran Sandinista Daniel Ortega. Tragically the ‘left’ in Britain, or large sections of it have followed the globalist Australian/Spanish/Italian line and not the Swedish, Belarusian or Nicaraguan one. And UK Labour, by pushing for another lockdown, are going against the traditions of their own party. Back in the late 1960s, Britain, like many other countries in the world, was struck with Hong Kong Flu. Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson didn’t lockdown.
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