Freedom is real victim of the pandemic

Briarlyn

THE Government’s manipulative, lying, behavioural propagandists aimed to frighten the wits out of the public. And to our collective shame they succeeded only too well.

Too many of the public – and too many MPs – were too gullible. At times it looked like a baying mob of curtain twitchers, ranting about “selfishness”, had taken over the country.

The Downing Street partygoers knew the truth: that Covid is a nasty respiratory disease only for the vulnerable, mainly the elderly, and not for the vast majority of healthy under-60s.

The No 10 civil servants and advisers showed they were not afraid of Covid. Yet they cynically condoned the imposition of the worse than useless untargeted national lockdown rules on the public.

Those who unnecessarily died alone, the children who attempted suicide or self-harm, the millions who were denied NHS treatment, the two years of lost education, the failed businesses, the arbitrary state annexation of our centuries-old and essential individual liberty, the damage to our economy, all those and more will be on this Government’s, and the official opposition’s, consciences. They can no longer cover up this debacle.

It is apparent that the state has become a dead weight. Caesar’s head is on the coins so I am obliged to pay the taxes, but recognise they are just a useless drain.

The state no longer fosters and protects individuals but is simply there to mould us in its image

– it is no longer surprising that almost all governments around the world impose similar laws. We become serfs when too many of us put safety – and only the illusion of safety at that – above freedom.

Harrogate.