YAY, Freedom Day is coming.
By this time next week you will be able to catch Covid (and probably lots of other stuff) from someone you’ve just pulled in a nightclub.
That’s a reason to rejoice, isn’t it?
No restrictions on how many people can attend sporting events.
No social distancing in pubs and restaurants.
You can have people round to your house who are not part of your bubble.
You could even invite Matt Hancock over if you felt like it.
But the way the Government is talking it doesn’t much sound like a day of jubilation.
Boris and the rest are now being a lot more subdued.
Ministers, such as Grant Shapps, are urging people to behave with caution.
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That’s because the Covid infection rate is already rising very quickly indeed.
It is spreading, very rapidly, among the young.
We now have about 32,000 people per day copping Covid and the number of people in hospital has increased by more than 50 per cent, week on week.
The good news, though, is that hospitalisations are much, much lower than they were during the first and second waves of the virus.
And the death rate is infinitely smaller.
The bad news is that there is growing evidence that younger people are not getting their jabs.
They know that Covid, if it strikes, is unlikely to threaten their lives.
They believe there may be risks from the vaccine, too.
And then there is the Great Mask Debate.
We will no longer be compelled to wear the bloody things, no matter where we are.
And so the country is split between those people who will wear masks everywhere, even at home alone when they are doing the crossword on the khazi
And they will refer to the no-maskers as selfish fascists. And the no-maskers will call the maskers “sheeple”.
PROVE THEM WRONG
This is very different from our so-called Independence Day last year.
July 4, when everyone was urged to fill their boots down at the pub. And we were sponsored to eat out, bizarrely.
That was all, I think, a big mistake.
This time around it’s down to us to make sensible, rational, decisions.
At long last the Government has passed the responsibility over to us.
We all know that Covid isn’t beaten and that it never will be.
But by the same token, the lefties arguing that restrictions shouldn’t be lifted need to understand that the Government cannot abolish death.
Even good governments can’t do that. And I’m not sure we have a good government.
So how do we react?
Simple: With intelligence.
I’d wear a mask on public transport, for example.
As an old scrote, and as such “vulnerable”, I won’t be rushing to crowded places any time soon.
I’ll have people over for a drink if they’ve been jabbed and tested.
Simple decisions based on a wish to minimise risk.
The Government is allowing us to do this.
Frankly, we’ve been told what to do with our own lives for far too long.
Now we need to show that we accept that responsibility.
Maybe, for a while, live our lives much as we’ve been living them, if we’re particularly vulnerable to the virus.
A gradual and careful relaxation, while keeping our wits about us.
Some people argue that we’re not up to the task, that restrictions should remain in force. It’s time to prove them wrong.
Play this right and we may be free from any more lockdowns.
Get it wrong and we’ll be right back where we started.
Avoid cats & dogma
THE Cubans have had enough.
Protests every day in the streets.
That’s because the country is an economic basket case.
People can’t buy food or supplies, such as medicine.
And the fury has spilled over.
You don’t often see protests in Cuba.
Because the government has a tendency of arresting and beating up anyone who offers so much as a word of dissent.
They also lock up trade union leaders and gays.
Yep – it’s a socialist paradise, of course.
And just like in every other socialist paradise, the people are starving and suppressed.
In North Korea the poor buggers were forced to eat grass.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, more than one million people fled the dreadful country.
And some of the remaining citizens were left to eat cats.
Show me a socialist paradise and I’ll show you a country where sooner or later they’ll chow down on their pets
Out of necessity.
The Soviet Union collapsed because it was economically wrecked and the people were short of food (and everything else).
A famine in China killed millions.
So next time a BLM activist or an Extinction Rebellion protester – or a member of the Labour Party – tells you we need to overthrow capitalism, give the idiot a list of recipes for cat chow mein and sauteed grass and tell him to get used to it.
Socialism kills.
Gareth had to change
IT was both honest and right of Gareth Southgate to take responsibility for England’s penalty defeat.
Allowing two of the youngest and most inexperienced players in the side to take the crucial penalties was kind of mad.
Why did he do it? But the truth is the game was lost long before then.
When Italy started pummelling us in the second half Southgate needed to change the game.
And he was – again – incapable of doing so.
His substitutions were bad – and too late. And this happens time and again when England are playing top teams.
Gareth seems to be a very likeable and decent bloke.
He’s also fostered a great team spirit among his players.
And he’s made England difficult to beat.
But he is not a manager who when things are going badly can take a game by the scruff of the neck.
Still, well done England.
Another 55 years and we might actually win something.
Not a racist nation
A CHARITY has just come up with a report that says our country is “systemically racist”.
The morons behind this are the Runnymede Trust.
The country is not remotely systemically racist.
It is systemically anti-racist.
You can tell that from the reaction to the racist tweets sent to our black players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka.
It was front page news in every paper and condemned, furiously, by the rest of the country.
The police are now involved.
Those racists will be prosecuted and banned from football matches for life.
This isn’t the action of a “systemically racist” country, is it?
There are a few die-hard racists living among us, for sure.
But a minuscule percentage of the population.
Reports such as the one from Runnymede sow division and discord.
