What is becoming undeniably clear in the Wuhan pandemic is that the worst depredations of the virus have been enabled by the stupidity and incompetence of governments and health bureaucracies.
Besides the original epicentre in China, there’s the horror-show in New York, run by a Democrat governor and mayor. In Australia, the worst outbreaks have been related to the Ruby Princess fiasco in New South Wales and now in Victoria, where the Andrews government not only kept the worst clusters secret for weeks, but allowed massive, left-wing protests to go ahead without repercussion.
In all this, though, no government has ever admitted culpability, let alone accepted punishment.
Rather, they’ve shifted blame and punishment onto ordinary citizens. The Andrews government is forcing citizens to wear face masks in public and at work. Extraordinarily, Victorians have mostly accepted it with ovine complacency.
In the name of Covid, the State has already thrust itself into every corner of our existence[…]in the biggest state takeover of life and work ever attempted by non-Communists.
This is before the economic vultures even come home to roost. When the bill for wrecked economies and gargantuan welfare programs arrive, expect to see governments double down on their new-found absolute power.
Now it presumes to tell us what to wear. And what it wants us to wear is a soggy cloth muzzle, a face-nappy that turns its wearer from a normal human into a mumbling, mouthless submissive.
And this, it seems, is popular. Is there nothing the modern British people will not put up with?[…]Why is this frenzy taking place?
It’s certainly nothing to do with “respecting the science”, the great vanity of the modern left. In fact, it’s dismayingly anti-science.
For months, the WHO has repeatedly stated (correctly) that there is no evidence to support mass-masking. National health authorities and governments, from Britain to Australia, repeated the same message.
Now, suddenly, all that has turned on a dime. Yet, the evidence hasn’t changed.
The evidence is indeed weak. There is plenty of research showing that the case for muzzles is poor, especially a survey done for the dental profession four years ago, which quietly vanished from the internet after mask opponents began to cite it[…]There has not been any great discovery in the past few days.
Yet, even more worrying than the increasingly naked, China-lite authoritarianism of Western governments, is what this represents for science itself.
Amazingly, the chief spokesman for science in this country, who should surely support proper rigour, has dismissed such [Randomised Control Trials (RCT)s]. Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society, sneered at ‘inappropriate’ RCTs as ‘methodological fetishism’.
Think hard about that: the president of the world’s pre-eminent scientific body is openly denigrating what is supposed to be the gold standard of scientific evidence.
The truth is that the muzzle policy is all about power and fear.
The Government began its wild, disproportionate shutdown of the country by spreading fear of a devastating plague that would destroy the NHS and kill untold thousands.
Now, as many people find that Covid-19 is, in fact, nothing of the kind, new ways have to be found to keep up the alarm levels.
Those include simply, knowingly, lying about infections and deaths.
The superb scientists of the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine[…]looked at the figures from Public Health England (PHE). And they found, in their own devastating words ‘It seems that PHE regularly looks for people on the NHS database who have ever tested positive, and simply checks to see if they are still alive or not[…]
‘By this PHE definition, no one with Covid in England is allowed to ever recover from their illness. A patient who has tested positive, but been successfully treated and discharged from hospital, will still be counted as a Covid death even if they had a heart attack or were run over by a bus three months later.’
We’ve also seen how infection rates are being grossly inflated.
At the same time, in true Orwellian fashion, the state is manufacturing its Goldsteins.
People such as me, who think Ministers’ response to the virus is wildly out of proportion, have until now been able to live amid the propaganda, trying to stay sane.
But the muzzle is a badge of subservience and submission. Anyone who dons it publicly is agreeing to the Government’s crazy assessment of the level of danger.
Societies in which citizens are discouraged from speaking out against the regime, as this has become, are pretty disgraceful. But countries where the citizens are compelled to endorse the opinion of the state are a serious step further down the path to totalitarianism.
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