Lockdown ‘relaxation’ is nothing of the sort

and still the intake continues at airports and the English Channel

Some say Boris is a libertarian at heart. Not as far as i can tell. Microchip the entire population and have done with it.
Imagine the future.
” Citizen365666PLO. You are 500 metres outside your daily limit of walk. Report for punishment squad. “
They have the technology all they lack is the excuse.

This should also be read in conjunction with the updated guidance on the College of Policing web site. I would have thought that the ‘drive… irrespective of distance’ paragraph is as clear as it can reasonably be expected to be.

Just give them a nice smart roman salute and shout “Janwohl Mein Furher!”

“cemetery”.
Otherwise thank you for this.

Yes, I definitely think that as mentioned above exculpation (evasion of blame, guilt) is what this is all about, and I don’t just mean the law changes, I mean absolutely everything that Boris Johnson has been doing since he and we first heard of the tragic word/phrase covid-19.

Whereas in my view the main statement he should be making is a mea culpa – as I’ll now explain…

(a mea culpa incidentally is a confession/admission of guilt for those who “don’t have the Latin” to do judging, like Peter Cook’s 1960s satirical character in the famous sketch).

Because though I do concur that obfuscation is what the government is up to at present in its legal outpourings, and yes, most definitely in its own best interests, it goes far beyond just its legal output.

I would quickly point out incidentally that this deliberate vagueness that the government has been using – deliberately blurring the distinction between what it is law, so can be enforced, and what is merely what the government would like us to do, but chooses (for exculpation motives again, I would suggest) not to make law, but lets the police enforce anyway as if it was law, and leaves the public afraid, so mostly compliant, as they don’t know what the law is either – may actually be starting to backfire on them.

https://www.standard.co.uk/…

As according to the Evening Standard since the new measures were announced, the Police College (whether rightly or wrongly) has issued a statement to its officer members saying they have no legal powers to enforce the 2 metre distance rule, which of course is at the heart of the lockdown.

So this suggests the police are starting to rebel against the government for this vagueness, which puts them on the front line, and risks serious problems for them in policing what they are not sure they are justified in doing, so are more or less threatening it appears to refuse to police this matter at all, unless they get much clearer guidance, backed by clearer laws.

So the public are confused, the police are confused, the civil servants drafting the legal documents are probably confused, and so it goes on, and as actually the responsibility for all that is happening is Mr Johnson’s, as with honest and responsible government, the “buck” (or pound sterling, but not likely Euro we can now assume) stops with him, we would have to presume Mr Johnson is being deliberately confusing, or possibly is even very confused himself.

My money is on the latter.

But as I said, the obfuscation that is far more serious than these woolly rules and regulations is that the 50 page document issued this week telling us what’s going on and what we’re supposed to do, alleges that a survey has been carried out on 7,087 English citizens that claims only 0.24% tested positive for coronavirus, which when extrapolated to the roughly 56 million England population works out at about 136,000 infected (hence their figure).

We already had an official UK figure of 225,000 roughly infected, and at that point about 32,000 dead.

I do not believe the infected figure produced by this survey to be even remotely accurate, and it is interesting to note (this is all in Section 1 of the document) that this 136,000 figure has a very prominent disclaimer on it, muttering something about it being unreliable, as to it being “early days” in the testing process.

But this 136,000 figure has massive policy and indeed political consequences.

Because it says that hardly anybody has yet got infected, it’s only less than 1/4 % in England, which firstly says the lockdown has worked (hurray Mr Johnson!” you see, is the idea, he saved us all with the lockdown you see) and secondly, that as this claims hardly anybody has got it yet, it justifies a continued lockdown.

Whereas if the truth is as many suspect (largely as it is believed this virus was around for a long time before the lockdown) millions already have it, then it firstly renders the lockdown pointless and already failed.

And secondly it shows the virus is nowhere near as deadly as claimed, because if millions have it and only 32,000 or so are dead, that makes only a tiny percentage dying of it.

So once again, this does not justify the lockdown, nor the massive social, health and economic damage that has already resulted and is going to result from it.

And quite frankly the figures don’t make any sense any way you look at them.

e.g. as we are told up to 80% of those infected won’t have any or only mild symptoms that says the roughly 2.2 million tested in the UK before the alleged mass and thus near random testing (you know, the 100,000 a day being claimed) was rolled out, of which roughly 225,000 were found to be infected, only likely accounted for about 20% of those infected, as most of that only that 20% would have been tested as having had serious symptoms.

So that says there should/must be another 80% not tested, but either without symptoms or ones so mild they didn’t need to go to a hospital and so get tested.

So that would then be 4 x 225,000 (as 4 x 20% = 80%) which is about 900,000 infected.

So adding on the officially infected 225,000 (this is the UK, not England for which the 136,000 figure was given), so that would be at least 1.1 million infected in total for the whole UK.

Which is about 900,000 for England (where the survey was done only) which is about 7 times what the survey is suggesting.

So primary school arithmetic and simple logic suggests this 136,000 and 0.24% infected in England figure is either an outright lie or the result of seriously botched testing.

And as I’ve explained the political motivation for it is enormous, because if the truth is as I and many top world experts have claimed – then this lockdown is exposed as an enormous blunder and failure, and covid-19 as nowhere near dangerous as is claimed.

Which prima facie appears to be the case even officially, as we have long been told it is only a serious threat to those either in old age or with serious underlying health conditions or both.

So anyway you look at this, it is just madness, full of contradictions.

And so as I said, I believe the exculpation that is at the heart of this lockdown policy , is simply a political manoeuvre by Mr Johnson to save his own skin.

Because the world public and other governments had been convinced by the news (in my view propaganda) coming from China that there was a deadly disease on the loose, so demanded lockdowns like China.

And so Mr Johnson initially unwillingly complied with the demands, and now has to pretend this deadly contagion was real – though nobody is doubting it’s like a bad season of flu in its mortality rate, but there’s no proof that it is anything worse – and now he’s got the awful problem of trying to persuade a public which still falsely believes their lives are at risk, to go back to work and normality.

With unions breathing down his neck protesting their workers’ lives are in danger, etc, etc.

Maybe Mr Johnson even himself believed this was a deadly virus to begin with.

But let’s go back to the statistic he’s just put out that says only 0.24% – that’s less than 1 in 400 of the population have been infected.

And let’s remind ourselves that he himself claims to have been not only infected, but so badly affected he had to be hospitalised, which also defies probability, as he is well under 60 and in robust health.

So will the truth ever come out?

I am as yet uncertain, but if I am right (and far from alone in this belief, numerous scientists support it) then it is hard to believe a cover up this massive can be permanently covered up.

Hence the need I think for at some stage a mea culpa – for surely the time has come for leaders or governments to learn to say “sorry”, and admit they are, or were, simply not up to the job.

For the damage Mr Johnson has done by approving and indeed ordering this lockdown is almost certain to be far greater, by many orders of magnitude, than what would have happened had he not done it, as the Sweden example, who has less deaths per million than the UK, seems to clearly prove.