This is absolutely batshit insane. It is evil. I can't imagine how the thousands of people in this situation must be feeling, especially waiting to find out if they can open in APRIL. April! And this won't be like the July opening of last year, it will be restricted households which means they're finally 'allowed' to earn a living but are forced to trade at a loss!! This is after a 6 MONTH lockdown and millions of vaccinations! We were locked down for 4 last year? We've already been told that there will be restrictions (i.e. lockdown) again next winter, so they're closed for their busiest season again!
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This is definitely patronising but I genuinely don't know why these people aren't rioting in the streets. Pubs especially can't just peacefully reopen because they'll lose their license from the council and be sued by their landlord. Bear in mind these are pubs and restaurants which many are clambering to get back to (unlike other non-essential small businesses) yet they're being forced to sit idly by and watch as their livelihoods are destroyed. It must be maddening.
I've no idea why this doesn't enrage everyone. I know most think it's justified versus having a bad reaction to COVID and ending up on a ventilator but I just don't understand that logic? It's like we've collectively forgotten other illnesses exist. I'm sick with worry that me or my family will have a genuinely terminal illness that goes undiagnosed because of this. I'm sick with worry that me or my family will get ill in future and end up behind millions on a waiting list. I'm sick with worry that I'll lose my job and end up on UC for years! The probabilities of these things happening are so much more likely.
Personally I'm also sick with worry about living in a dilapidated, boarded up shithole with small businesses all but extinct. I've genuinely no idea what the state of the capital will be after all of this where trade is wholly reliant on tourists and yuppies and those will be few and far even after lockdown is lifted. Think what all this has done to entrepreneurs and young people in this country. Few would dare to pursue a hospitality business now - what's the point? It's risky enough without the threat of the government legally forcing you to close for months on end and the police emboldened to punch you in the face if you dare open in defiance.
But hey, at least our kids will always have a job at Amazon. I am so so angry about all of this. There is nothing scientific about something that kills more people than it saves long-term and bankrupts hundreds of thousands more.
"We attempted to intimidate a virus with PhDs and political power, hoping that it would shrivel and die, and in so doing dramatically disabled human freedom and social functioning. What do we have to show for it? Massive carnage, and a virus that is still with us." ~ Jeffrey A. Tucker
www.aier.org
Estimates show 16,000 people died through missed medical care by May 1, while virus killed 25,000 in same period
www.telegraph.co.uk
Actually I retract my punched in the face comment! How about kneed in the stomach and jumped on by 8 police officers. Police dog too for good measure. Everyone needs to collectively engage brain and realise that this can happen to any of us. This man is just trying to earn a living