Coronavirus General Discussion

I'm thinking a lot about that old adage about pure hatred, because I can't think of anything else to describe how this weeks' developments have made me feel.

That sickening video of Jacob Rees-Mogg joking about how today's party doesn't breach any laws, him and all of his dead-eyed chums just laughing it up knowing that nothing will happen about the fact him and all his mates got together while people were dying literally in their thousands, alone, their families at best allowed to watch them gasp their last over a video call, alone apart from a nurse on a 12 hour shift who might have found time to touch them on the hand or something just in case they could feel it, before going on to the next.

It's a joke to them, they know that nothing bad will ever, ever happen to them, that there are no consequences for them, that the rules only apply to the little people who were stupid enough not to have rich parents who could send them to the right schools. That laughing you hear in the Stratton and Rees-Mogg videos? That's them laughing at *you*, and everyone you know and love, and everyone who has to follow the rules. The utter contempt and arrogance, the determined refusal to take any kind of responsibility or accept any kind of consequences, knowing that the absolute worst that will ever happen to any of them is that they'll be supported in stepping down with dignity into a life of obscene privileges, opportunity and comfort and being paid more than most people will ever earn in a year for a single after-dinner speech.

I cannot believe that even after all this, there are still those out there who will continue to defend these people to the death despite it being perfectly clear just how low the public they're supposed to be serving are on their priority list, the footballification of our public life so ingrained that you feel compelled to support the dignity of your chosen side no matter what. I know nothing will come of this because it never does these days, and I have no idea what any of us are supposed to do about it.

Johnson won't last a year. At this rate, he won't last the week. He cannot go on television again to address the nation from a position of any authority whatsoever.

Is that your second visit to confession this week?

Yep think most of us got the sarcasm. Thought you had posted in such a way as going on a fishing expedition and was trying to reel in a few large ones

Legal requirement to wear masks in theatres from Friday.

Let's see how that pans out.
It's been a legal requirement to wear them on public transport for a couple of weeks now and still at least 50% don't.

Just ordered more masks.

Their contempt for the public has always been obvious so I’m a little surprised how much anger there appears to be about this.

Masks have been mandatory in theatres here in Wales since they were allowed to reopen. Would have been much better to have done that in England, and given how unstable the industry has been over the last two years it’s pretty shocking theatres aren’t doing far more. Bar sales won’t help if they have to close again.

It’s disheartening to read so many people on social media saying they’re not going to comply with any further restrictions. It’s the public who will suffer the repercussions of that not Boris and his cronies.

Excuse my language, but I am f***ing apoplectic

The Government have now created a situation where if you don't follow the rules you are endangering others but if you do you feel complicit in their lies..

I just noticed that it's exactly a year since the very first person was vaccinated. That was when we were all optimistic, not realising how many people would see it all as a plot and refuse to take it.