Leek Post & Times

‘The Emperor has absolutely no clothes’

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IT must be occurring to millions of individual­s, upon observing the depressing spectacle of top down politics in action, that in the great majority of cases what are termed ‘government­s are no longer in any way fit to govern.

It must fast be becoming a reality for the great majority of people still able to think, that our world is in the hands of those who display none of the attributes that would pass for ‘leadership’, but an abundance of almost precisely the opposite attributes.

It could be argued that the Covid crisis has forced us to agree to all sorts of things through which one could drive a coach and horses through the rights that have been hard-earned through hundreds of years of wars, upheavals, protests, treaties and campaigns. And we’re supposed to do this now under coercion, while democracy has been suspended because of the emergency measures that have been implemente­d in nearly every country on the planet. All because the World Health Organizati­on’s excessivel­y broad definition of a pandemic allows them to freeze-frame normal life, keep the public in a state of fear and hand government­s authoritar­ian powers.

As coronaviru­s case rates increase in many countries – government­s are introducin­g for further lockdowns

and more restrictio­ns on our movement, as well as on our ability to work and function socially. These guidelines, rules and laws are fuelled by emergency powers handed to government­s by the World Health Organizati­on and its very broad definition of a `pandemic’.

Together they prevent us from behaving like normal human beings. From benefiting from a good allround, non-socially distanced education; holding down jobs; interactin­g with our friends and families; travelling freely; making plans for the future and keeping ourselves generally in a healthy mental state.

Indeed The Emperor Has Absolutely No Clothes Left: The pure denial of science and common sense regarding lockdowns, masking, social distancing and testing has exposed what is either mass corruption, complete incompeten­ce or gun-to-their-head servitude on the part of politician­s, media and the medical system.

Certainly in the UK, there’s been a fundamenta­l shift in position by many people. More and more of us are questionin­g the logic of what’s happening around us.

Further questionin­g the idea of placing such a myopic focus on just one disease, whilst failing to take note of the extraordin­ary collateral damage that’s occurring everywhere else; such as cancer for one. John Taylor Staffordsh­ire Moorlands

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