They are back at it. They’re like Groundhog Day where they repeat the exact same events over and again, until the end of their lives.
So we have to listen to the monstrous regiment of experts and politicians and scaremongering pundits and doomy BBC voices and lockdown-avid authoritarians – with a tedious London mayor thrown in for bad measure.
The dreaded phrase ‘rule of six’ is being used once again, as scientists employ the same old dodgy modelling methods (which often seem as reliable as a fortune teller’s crystal ball) to prophesy the end of times – and with what sounds suspiciously like sadistic glee as they attempt to squash a weary populace into fearful submission.
Omicron-related cases are on the increase. People have been advised not to make any Christmas plans.
Reduce your Christmas plans. This is the advice of a Prime Minister who’s now losing votes. He acts like a schoolboy, leaving behind his bag on the bus.
Meanwhile, London’s mayor Sadiq Khan uses shockingly inflammatory language like ‘major incident’ and says rules should be tightened ‘sooner rather than later’ – but that people should still be able to enjoy Christmas Day with their loved ones, unless there are more restrictions.
Well, thanks a bunch for nothing, Sadiq – because we can make up our own minds. Many of us have had enough with people telling us what we should do in our homes.
Millions reject the brainwashing and are putting themselves in lockdown.
Sadiq Khan is the London Mayor and will be visiting the BBC on Sunday for Andrew Marr. Over the Omicron scandals in London, he declared an ‘important incident’.
On Wednesday’s gloomy Government press conference, Professor Chris Whitty urged people to prioritize their holiday social contact and reduce household mixing.
It had an immediate effect: All restaurant bookings were cancelled, and the hospitality industry is a real job. Town centres also emptied. Shopping footfall was reduced at this busy time of year.
Many families found themselves in a constant state of anxiety as Omicron, the death star that is aiming to destroy us all, hurled towards them.
Even though the UK had only one Omicron, it was said that that death occurred when an over-75 year old person died.
To be precise. Let me be clear. I admire Chris Whitty and know that Covid left many families devastated. It is understandable why so many people are still anxious about a virus that has seemingly irrevocably changed their lives.
The country’s vaccine programme is something we can be proud of. We should also be thankful to those who gave their time to help the people waiting in line for boosters or vaccinations.
So far, so sensible. But is it sensible to ignore all the evidence from South Africa which says that people who contract Omicron generally have milder symptoms and recover faster – and the view of Dr Angelique Coetzee (who first identified the variant) that the British response has been ‘knee-jerk’ and over the top?
It is fair to disregard the prominent voices, such as that of Angus Dalgleish (a vaccine expert and professor oncology), who oppose the current’manufactured hysteria.
It is responsible for creating this “climate of fear” when the UK Health Security Agency states that Sajid Javid’s claims of daily Omicron infection rates of 200,000 are ‘no longer valid.
Do you think it is wise to create fear in people that could also destroy the economy.
To threaten people’s precious time with family and friends when just one in 20 patients in ward beds has Covid in England (a number that’s been fairly consistent since the end of July this year) – in contrast to one in six this time last year?
All of these questions are certain to be answered with a clear ‘No.
Do not ignore Omicron and Covid infections. We are all being infected by the climate of pessimism with devastating consequences for our mental health.
People are brainwashed to behave in unnatural ways by lockdown mentality.
An elderly lady wrote me a sad letter at the start of the year to share her lonely Christmas.
Although it was allowed for families to share the day, her son-in law and daughter-in-law refused to allow her to visit their house as normal or to even come in her home.
Oh, they visited her – just standing in the garden for half an hour, talking through her wide-open window as they all quaffed a glass of icy champagne. It was so festive.
She explained that they thought it was best to protect me. What, I wondered. Happiness? Oder kindness?
A couple of Left-wing intellectual lockdown addicts attacked me two weeks ago at a party in Bath for declaring Christmas in our house was their business.
Unmarried man of middle age joined me and said dolefully, ‘Last Christmas I gave up my life.’ When I inquired, he explained how. I inquired how. He said that he is single and travels alone to see his widowed mother.
Last year, he did not because ‘I was worried about infected’. He decided to make his mother and himself miserable this Christmas. Piously, he said: ‘You need to follow the rules.
What happens when rules are completely illogical and imposed on you by someone who has lost your respect?
Numerous families have been thrown back into worry by Omicron cases as Christmas draws near.
Do you meekly comply with diktats issued by here-today-gone-tomorrow politicians and unelected scientists – when their instructions challenge all your most dearly held beliefs?
If that’s the case, yes. Sage scientists tell me it’s not a good idea.
You can’t live without it.
As we all finished eating turkey and all of the trimmings, my dad was seen wearing his paper hat.
That perfect Christmas day (with no squabbles among his four great-grandchildren, for once) was to be his last – and I will always think of it as sacred and rejoice in the memory.
Yesterday, I spoke to my mother, 97 years old and in very poor health. She said she’d rather be with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren than being protected.
She makes her choice – as all reading this can make their own. It is true that we live in sad times. Things could get even worse.
Never, ever allow the powers that be to fool us into believing the fear they instill is any more valuable than the cherished relationships we share with our families. It is not – and never will be.