UPDATE: Slovakia tested most of the country in two days …
From dawn ’til dusk, troops and the medical profession joined forces across Slovakia to go to war on Covid-19.
It began on Halloween and spread across Central and Eastern Europe’s weekend of the dead as the rest of world watched.
There is no doubt that Slovakia has embarked on an heroic battle to control this dirty greasy little enemy which has brought the world to its knees.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/02/europe/slovakia-mass-coronavirus-test-intl/index.html
People faced long delays at many testing centres but Prime Minister Igor Matovic kept on urging everybody to take part. And by the end of the first day it was reported that nearly half of the population had been tested. One per cent apparently tested positive and went in to quarantine.
Matovic said; “The eyes of Europe and the world are upon us.”
And Defence Minister Jaro Nad described the situation as the army’s biggest logistical operation since the country became independent.
Infections have soared in Slovakia and officials say the only alternative would be a total lock-down.
But President Zuzana Caputova doesn’t appear to agree and exercised her own freedom of speech to call for a rethink of the plan after the armed forces feared there simply aren’t enough trained people to make it work.
Meanwhile, in the UK, the former Supreme Court judge, Lord Sumption, has made some astonishing claims about what is going on under the cloud of Covid.
He said: “This has been the most significant interference with personal freedom in the history of our country. We have never sought to do such a thing before, even in wartime and even when faced with health crises far more serious than this one.”
And he supported a statement I have made often in UK newspapers and on radio, and that is the the UK’s political system is a dictatorship … the only difference is that we get to change our dictators every five years.
Those who are lost in the shadows of our pseudo-democracy have attacked me for saying it.
However, Lord Sumption said: “Ministers are accountable to no one, except once in five years at general elections.”
He also accuses the Government of disregarding the limits of their legal powers.
And this is how freedom dies. The UK’s own days of the dead.
The Government decided, without fanfare or discussion with the population it represents, to increase emergency spending from £11billion to just under £270billion.
The UK economy, jobs and businesses are facing destruction and the NHS is ailing visibly under the strain.
We are a country riven by panic on the streets, fear, misinformation and a cyber information highway riddled with lies, fake news and conspiracy theories.
Then of course there are the new draconian laws keeping us away from our families and friends.
Seeing our old folks was once an inalienable right. Now it is a crime.
So is revealing your face to strangers.
This is the makings of the kind of dystopian world we used to view on our screens while we scoffed popcorn and sank bottles of a wine, never believing for a moment that this fantasy could ever become a reality.
Well it has .. and none of us really have all the facts we need to have the freedom of making our own minds up. We have to believe what those in power tell us.
All influence of democracy has left our shores. And the question has to be, will it ever come back to us?
One ‘fact’ we do know is that comparable numbers of people die from respiratory problems every year. And yet it is difficult to find official figures to support this.
And what about funerals? Small gatherings in a church yard, no wake down the pub and no tearful reunions at the family home. Life at the moment is a perfunctory hatching, matching and dispatching with very little ceremony.
Is it another fact that we have been driven like lemmings to the precipice of loss of freedom, dignity and a new age of political dictatorship?
Are we actually seeing, in the UK, the real end (for now) of personal freedom while Slovakia, which only found democracy in 1989, appears to discuss this disease of the mind and body openly and mobilises all its powers to end the pandemic of fear and fake news?
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