How an uncanny thing called covid destroyed our lives

The years of living with increasingly oppressive Covid restrictions and mandates is a tale of many villains complicit in tyranny and a few heroes of resistance. It’s a story of venal, incompetent politicians and brutish police – thugs in uniform – acting at the behest of power-drunk apparatchiks.

Medically idiotic, economically ruinous, socially disruptive and embittering, culturally dystopian, politically despotic: what was there to like in the Covid era?

Billions, if you were Big Pharma.

Unchecked power, if you were Big State.

Power over the whole population of a state and fame with extended daily TV appearances on all channels, if you were a chief medical officer.

More money and power over the world’s governments and people for the WHO.

Template for action for climate zealots.

Dreamtime for cops given free rein to indulge their inner bully.

But anguished despair, if you were a caring, concerned citizen who loves individual freedom and autonomy.

But if you think it was all justified and good, then you have been taken in hook, line and sinker.

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BritishFailedAesthetic · M

I mean it wasn't all bad enjoyed firlough and increased leisure time..... but people bent over and will soon get another boot up their arse by Government rule, they set the precident.

How hysterical some people were acting was absolutely pathetic.

WalterF · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic As a retiree with a nice garden and helpful neighbours, I too enjoyed the peace and quiet.
But how many people had their lives turned upside down, and lost so very much?
And as for the economic costs, and the damage done to children and students - incalculable stupidity from the government.
And when you think this appears to have been done on purpose, with an untried gene therapy injection FORCED on people, you get chills up your spine, and you think: they are wilful, stealthy MURDERERS.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@BritishFailedAesthetic It did seem rather eerie in the first lock-down, being able to cross the main road near my home in the middle of a week-day, without having to use the crossing! In the second lock-down things must have been easier for those at work (I am retired) as the road seemed as busy as normal.

I've no idea what your comment about something called "governmetrule" is meant to mean (is Govunmentrule a female character in Das Rheingold?), but for hysteria the anti-vaccination / pro-pandemic campaigners must take some sort of award. That hefty though metaphorical kick up the backside, perhaps?