Orchestrated Chaos

I was in Tesco on Thursday and noted, after we'd been told that we have the 2nd highest Covid infection rate in the world, that the increase in mask wearing was negligible - the vast majority of shoppers were oblivious to the guidance, or deliberately ignoring it.

A friend of mine's wife tested positive twice, yet he went into work with his father (who has compromised lings) and sent his kids to school. He found out later in the day that he also had Covid. Ubelievable. 

It's actually we mask wearers who are doing our bit to make sure more stringent methods don't need to be implemented, but the government isn't helping us. 

It doesn't help either when Conservative MPs are photographed in Parliament not wearing masks and JRM stands up and utters some utter nonsense that they don't wear masks because they're convivial. Of course we all know the virus won't go anywhere near convivial people. 

Given the government steadfastly and inexplicably refuses to reimpose the mask mandate in the face of an exponential rise in Covid cases in the run up to the worst season for transmission and the prospect of the NHS being overwhelmed, one reaches the conclusion that the government actually wants to ensure we head deeper into a period of chaos.

Why would this be? What would the chaos from Covid mask? Oh yes - the chaos from Brexit! It seems that any chaos is spun by the government as part of the plan. The fact there is no plan is immaterial.

I suppose there is a chance they've polled their newly won Red Wall voters and discovered they hate wearing masks. 

The prospects for the hospitality industry won't be good if people, except idiots, start staying away from restaurants and pubs. 

On another subject, what is Levelling Up? It's injecting investment money into a deprived area such that it becomes productive. That is exactly what the EU does through Enlargement. However, in the case of the EU it's a key strategy that's implemented so that markets are formed and grow; it's not an empty, electioneering mantra. 

Let's have a look at cheap, foreign labour. No-one can undercut the minimum wage, thus Eastern Europeans have no advantage for unskilled work. That said, employers prefer Eastern Europeans and the only conclusion must be that they're more productive. Additionally, the Tories voting against a ban on fire and rehire makes a mockery of their rants against cheap, foreign labour - they're all for replacing it with cheap, national labour. It's not the cheapness of it that they are concerned about, so long as it's British. A pool of cheap labour can only be facilitated by keeping the minimum wage low. Now which party persistently keeps the minimum wage low? 

By the way, any so-called newspaper that distorts reality in pursuit of a political agenda, be that left or right, loses the right to be called a newspaper - it's no more than a propaganda pamphlet for a particular political party. There's nothing wrong per se with a political agenda (such as higher or lower taxes, or building more houses), but distorting reality in its pursuit is lying. The grossest distortions of reality are currently emanating from those newspapers that support Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party and the worst offender is the Daily Express. 

The Daily Mail too likes to gaslight its readers with a story about a Brexit success that is not really a success at all, but smoke and mirrors.