I seem to remember hearing Helen Mirren saying how lovely it was to be able to relax and spend time with her husband during the enforced leisure time she had been given. I also remember Jeremy Vine on BBC radio 2 interviewing Senetra Gupta because "the BBC listens to all sides of the debate". It was dreadful because she clearly thought she'd been asked on to talk about traditional treatments and behaviours in epidemics of respiratory viruses and he actually ended up saying he'd been obliged to talk to one of those nutcases who didn't believe the truth. All those smug "liberals" who like to say they'd have stood up to the Nazis and would have been in the French Resistance. Well, nothing like being able to believe the lies one tells oneself to maintain a self-image!
I despair of the future. It's far more bleak than people wish to acknowledge. They will all fall for the next horror. They will all report us refusniks if and when they are asked to.
I'm very happy to report that changing the way I live forever has categorically failed, other than strengthening an already very healthy streak of disobedience.
Such an excellent piece which helps to clarify my own thinking. Thank you. I finally left my professional organisation this week with a final reminder of the damage done by lockdowns etc and their failure to engage and respond to my concerns as early as 2020. Surprisingly the CEO actually replied to say they shared my concerns! No they most certainly didn’t but now say they did? Is this going to be the pattern where organisations make out that they were concerned all along but it was ‘the pandemic’ that caused all the harm and nothing to do with the way government’s responded?
Well said!
I seem to remember hearing Helen Mirren saying how lovely it was to be able to relax and spend time with her husband during the enforced leisure time she had been given. I also remember Jeremy Vine on BBC radio 2 interviewing Senetra Gupta because "the BBC listens to all sides of the debate". It was dreadful because she clearly thought she'd been asked on to talk about traditional treatments and behaviours in epidemics of respiratory viruses and he actually ended up saying he'd been obliged to talk to one of those nutcases who didn't believe the truth. All those smug "liberals" who like to say they'd have stood up to the Nazis and would have been in the French Resistance. Well, nothing like being able to believe the lies one tells oneself to maintain a self-image!
I despair of the future. It's far more bleak than people wish to acknowledge. They will all fall for the next horror. They will all report us refusniks if and when they are asked to.
The 21st century Wansee Conference ... the PERFECT characterization. A really great piece...👍
I'm very happy to report that changing the way I live forever has categorically failed, other than strengthening an already very healthy streak of disobedience.
Such an excellent piece which helps to clarify my own thinking. Thank you. I finally left my professional organisation this week with a final reminder of the damage done by lockdowns etc and their failure to engage and respond to my concerns as early as 2020. Surprisingly the CEO actually replied to say they shared my concerns! No they most certainly didn’t but now say they did? Is this going to be the pattern where organisations make out that they were concerned all along but it was ‘the pandemic’ that caused all the harm and nothing to do with the way government’s responded?