Reform of Panic Buying

Went into Yate on Sunday for some batteries, but thought better of it when I couldn't even park in Lidl's car park as people were engaging in their favourite pastime - panic buying. Ask people why they're panic buying and they'll respond; "I'm not panic buying, I'm just getting in before other people panic buy." I just hope there will be enough Waitrose Essential lilies to last for the lockdown.

I confidently predict that, instead of pop-up Christmas decoration shops, we'll see pop-up toilet paper shops. Was there ever a shortage of bog paper in March? Can't say I noticed any shortage.

So Farage is to change the name of The Brexit Party to The Reform Party. Presumably it will still remain a Ltd. company. The party intends to campaign against the lockdown in favour of herd immunity.

1. Herd immunity only works in the context of long term immunity, invariably through an effective vaccine.
2. Thus far, Covid antibodies have been shown to last no more than 6 months and people are on record as catching it twice.
3. The whole point of a national lockdown is to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed with Covid patients, which is BOUND to have a knock-on effect on other diseases being treated, meaning lots of people could die from cancer, heart attack, stroke, etc. if the flawed herd immunity strategy, which does not have the support of science, is followed.
4. Even if people who get it 2nd time get it less severely and protection lasts a bit longer, a massive percentage of the population hasn't even had it the first time yet, so hospitals will still be clogged up with Covid patients.

Farage knows this, as he's on record in March saying as much, although that was before we knew that protection is only short term. I must therefore assume, his strategy is to fleece the mentally challenged and paranoid of their cash - cash they desperately need for tin foil hats.

That said, his effort will serve no purpose other than to dilute the sane Conservative vote (if such a thing exists these days), as that's where the majority of anti-lockdown sentiment, which is primarily from psychopathic business interests, exists. So, all power to him. The longer the problem lasts, the more the government has to borrow and the more pressure there will be on the very wealthy to stump up more in tax - no wonder the anti-lockdown ethos is strobg in the Conservative Party.

As it is, that other disaster, Brexit, will be happening, potentially while still in a lockdown, leaving business no time whatsoever to prepare for rules they're, as yet, totally ignorant of, as a deal has not been finalised because of Boris' ill-advised and self-defeating brinkmanship.

I keep seeing people going on about the Great Barrington Declaration, despite Harold Shipman and Donald Duck being signatories. Putting fake signatures aside, it still fails on logic for the same reasons I enumerated above.

It's amazing how conspiracy theories proliferate in times of crisis. It's understandable though, as people crave certainty and conspiracy theories prey on that desire. Religious conversions and other superstitions increase during crises.