News Update #7 from the People's Republic of Lockdown for 18 Nov, 2027
The Government has announced that the lockdown will be extended for a further month after police officers responded to reports of a serial sneezer loose in central London. This marks 75 months...
...of continuous lockdown but Prime Minister Dawn Butler has promised this extension will be the last one. Her statement was received with apathy as anyone who cared about living ended their life years ago.
Meanwhile the toll from the deadly coronavirus continues to rise...
...with the 14th wave said to be one of the most lethal events in living memory, causing nearly as many deaths as toe stubbings, bathtub drownings and ice cream van accidents combined.
An emergency meeting of THYME confirmed the need to crack down on misinformation about...
...the disease and the Social Transition And Solution Initiative has therefore begun monitoring unscientific discussions between citizens, including in their homes, gardens and what they say to themselves out loud while taking a dump.
In cultural news, the Great Makeover...
...continues with bleeders and non-bleeders coming together, virtually, from inside their self-isolation facilities, to wear gender neutral clothing to celebrate how different and diverse we all are. "It is essential that we showcase the full range of human beauty by...
...dressing, thinking and being identical," a weird pink-haired-teenager-who-never-had-any-friends said.
Finally, we remind citizens to take their daily vaccine. Any failure to comply will result in immediate cancellation of your Netflix subscription or death, whichever...
...you find more painful at this point.
Stay at Home. Flatten Your Life. Protect the NHS.
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My aunt died of COVID. My FIL is fresh out of hospital with pneumonia after catching it.
Lockdown was brilliant for me in terms of spending more time with family, my health and focusing on work I love.
Why do I vehemently oppose Lockdown 2.0?
According to the Government's own figures, the *first* lockdown will cause the deaths of up to 200,000 people.
We already have 28,000 excess non-COVID deaths. Over the next few years all the missed cancer, heart disease, diabetes diagnoses and delayed treatments will lead to...
...x00,000s of deaths.
The second lockdown will not end on Dec 2. It will continue until March. That's more people dead. Homeless. Suicidal.
Up to half a million people dying BECAUSE of lockdowns.
News Update #6 from the People's Republic of Lockdown for Nov 6, 2027
Following an emergency meeting of ROSEMARY, the decision has been made to save lives and protect the NHS.
Cancer screenings, heart surgeries and other non-essential procedures have been cancelled...
...and replaced with regular clapping to celebrate brave frontline staff.
The Government is pleased to report that significant progress has been made in the battle against misinformation with over 30 prominent immunologists, virologists and other COVID deniers arrested...
...and referred for treatment at a re-education facility.
New polling shows that over 146% of the public now support lockdown, while 70% want it "harder, deeper, faster".
Opposition Leader David Icke could not be reached for comment on these developments as he was busy...
News Update #4 from the People's Republic of Lockdown for October 31, 2027
Today marks the 7th anniversary of the Great Lockdown implemented by former PM Boris Johnson who lost the 2024 General Election after running on a platform of "Conservative with no C". To celebrate...
...the occasion of 7 years of continuous lockdown, the Government has allowed citizens to engage in sexual intercourse. However, sex must be conducted with social distancing, the use of a Government-approved full body condom and may not involve other humans. Approved animals...
...include squirrels, bats and sheep (Wales only). Individuals found to be engaging in sexual intercourse with other humans will be prosecuted for conspiracy to murder and banned from Twitter.
In Royal news, Princess Harriet has been praised by social justice campaigners...
There is an extensive gaslighting operation on the subject of the culture war.
By way of context, broadly speaking, the "culture war" refers to a series of political and philosophical disputes about a number of interrelated cultural issues. /1
At their core, these disputes can be summed up as a struggle to determine the relationship between subjective feelings and reality.
For example, we all know that men can't get pregnant or have periods but since this is uncomfortable for.../2
...some transmen to hear (because it suggests they aren't real men) we fight over how to best accommodate their feelings while retaining an understanding of basic biology.
We all know that discrimination is bad, which is how we know that applying it in reverse is also bad.../3