While social media monsters scream from their desktops that the world-as-we-knew-it is being buried under government, ‘big pharma’, journalistic and fat cat lies’…
And while they gnash madly as they describe ambitions to shoot little Bill Gates ‘submarines of control’ into our veins … it looks like the world might be re-setting all around us.
We just might be on the verge of a journey back to some kind of normality, although I do doubt that we will ever return to 100pc of what we had before.
After all, shocks like the coronavirus pandemic – and there is no doubt the shock is real, even if you don’t believe the pandemic is – happen very rarely and must have permanent and far-reaching changes for us all.
Right now as far as output is concerned the world economy is heading for recovery but the legacy of Covid-19 will deform and mutate global any growth.
Factory and service jobs are already being done by robots. And it will get worse. White-collar workers are unlikely to swap their firesides for sterile offices and Governments will undoubtedly play a larger role in the lives of us all.
Yes, keyboard warriors you are right! Our safety nets and personal rights need patching up as soon as possible.
But the outrageous lying, fact bending, twisted, scare-mongering, freakish emoji -ridden, smiley assassin of social media need to be brought to heel just like all other traditional media is in this ever-spinning world.
It is clear the one thing social media doesn’t care about is The Truth. All its Fat Controllers care about is collecting our data and ‘running’ our lives. Isn’t that what amateur pundits claim the powers-that-be invented the pandemic to do?
But surely we all have to say that the British government is right to explore mass rapid testing and vaccine passports right now.
As long as they do not become a permanent fixture in our lives then they may well speed our return to ‘normality’.
Then there is the new one-shot vaccine which could allow us foreign travel.
Boris has raised hopes by revealing what professional pundits are treating with caution by describing it as a mass testing blitz.
But at least we are not being hysterical about it behind little round grumpy and angry faces.
Yes, people soon will be able to collect free Covid tests which give results in just minutes. Everyone will be able to order kits at home, get them through work, at schools, or through testing centres across the country.
And as I write this four million Covid-19 injections were poked into American arms. This too is being seen as track back to ‘normal life’..
About 106 million people have had one dose in the US while 61 million are fully dosed. Whether by luck or design, President Joe Biden has actually lived up to his major promise to get out vaccines fast.
And that’s not to be Trumped at! No!
Let’s jump on the bus of hope, pay the fare and go where it takes us.
Then, when we arrive, demand our democratic rights to investigate and interrogate those who chose our route home.
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Still, the nightmare is not over though. The emergence of new coronavirus variations in Africa have contributed to an increase in deaths across the continent.
At least 40 countries have now seen a second wave of the pandemic.
And India’s health ministry has said that it has recorded an all-time high 103,558 new coronavirus cases, the highest daily tally.
Mumbai, India’s financial capital and the capital of Maharashtra state, is now under stringent lock-down.
But what of the long-term future?
It is a fact that we are going to have to learn to live with Covid. The rub is that, whether you believe it exists or not, it’s going to be with you.
And we only want constant tests and vaccine passports for as short a time as possible.
We don’t want to become prisoners of this Dystopian world that has ‘walled’ us into our homes and our countries.
Covid could lead us to become the victims of Health Apartheid, Finally the world is separated.
And cynicism is setting in everywhere too, not least on social media.
People are still openly breaking the “rules” in the UK, which automatically makes them redundant.
And in a way who can blame them?
All our civil liberties and being mashed up. If you look at it as cold hard fact, we are simply banned from meeting our families in their homes.
This is inhumane and cruel and against every right we have held close since society began.
If it continues it is a new form of Nazism.
The death rate is nearing single figures and those who are vulnerable have been vaccinated and the R-rate remains where it needs to be despite schools reopening and rule flouting.
I say open the doors! Let us out! Let us discover the future, no matter how frightening it is… after all it is our future.
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Yes totally agree with you well said enough is enough !!!!
Thanks Jan – what started me thinking was an attack off a couple of ‘friends’ who put a load of lies about covid on social media accusing certain people of facing criminal charges … i asked them where they got their imfo from, genuinely thinking I might have missed something. I got the stock answer of – ‘go and find it for yourself, if i can find it you can.” That always means they don’t have any proof to their claims … then they started attacking me because I’m a working journalist accusing me of being a liar, untrustworthy etc etc … and demand proof that i actually am one of the only journalists in the UK writing on almost a weekly basis on Parental Alienation! They were both victims i gathered. So i proved it. They still haven’t proved their claims and so all i can conclude is that they were bare-faced lying about specific people and saying they were facing criminal carges. Disgusting. And there are too many of them on social media – when everything is sorted to whatever end there is, these people should be charged with the deliberate dissemination of false information … i would face disciplinary action if i lied. Why shouldn’t they?