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Bob Moran

8 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read

I'm extremely grateful for all the support I'm receiving regarding my being excluded from taking part in this year's cartoon awards. I think it's important that people understand the situation so I will try to explain...

@EllwoodAtfield

Firstly, @EllwoodAtfield have sponsored the event for several years now and have transformed it into quite a grand affair. However, they do not have any involvement in which cartoonists are included or how the awards are decided. All of that is controlled by one man, Tim Benson.

@Cartoon4sale

Benson, @Cartoon4sale, runs the Political Cartoon Gallery in Putney and started these awards many years ago. I have known him for more than ten years. A lot of people find him extremely difficult and I have often found myself defending him to others in the past. We always seemed

to get on just fine. However, earlier this year, when I made my views about the current situation clear, he decided to make an enemy of me. He regularly sent me messages advising me that I was an idiot and that my fellow cartoonists thought that I had gone mad. He

publicly described me as an embarrassment to my profession and, on several occasions, made totally unfounded claims on social media that I endorsed The Holocaust. Benson currently has 28 pieces of my work in his gallery, all of which I have requested he return to me.

He has refused to let me have them back, unless I publicly withdraw my comments against Covid measures. Obviously, I was not a bit surprised that he excluded me from taking part in the awards. To be quite honest, I'm not sure I would take part in them, as long as he is involved.

But I think it's important to highlight the fact that an event like this is being run by such a deeply unpleasant individual who is able to decide who can or cannot participate, based purely on his own political/ social/ moral point of view. And, needless to say, if I had been

@EllwoodAtfield

able to enter, I wouldn't have won a thing. It baffles me that @EllwoodAtfield continue to associate themselves with a person like this but they are not to blame. Please, direct all of your complaints, with all the fire and vitriol you can muster, to @Cartoon4sale.

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

9 Dec

We're not doing any of this because a lot of people were going to catch a cold. We're not destroying our economies and societies because a tiny number of people felt tired for a few months after a cough. We aren't allowing babies and children to die because a new strain

of coronavirus is at large. We were told, in no uncertain terms, that this new virus CAUSES a brand new, deadly disease called Covid-19, the like of which we had never seen before. A disease so horrific that doctors were having emotional breakdowns after treating it. That is what

all of this is based on. The reasoning behind a global reaction which may well lead to the permanent destruction of all the things that make life a worthwhile experience.
In nine months of being immersed in this swamp of information, I have still not found an explanation of what

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

7 Dec

It's increasingly difficult for me NOT to be convinced that this is what has happened:

There was a new strain of cold. Because it was new, it spread quickly. However, it was so similar to pre-existing types of cold that at least 50% of people were already immune. Like many other cold viruses, it led to some old and vulnerable people getting pneumonia and dying.

THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. It's a shame. It's very difficult to prevent, particularly in hospitals. But there's nothing new about it. Alas, somebody, somewhere, realised that if they renamed pneumonia as 'Covid-19' & described it as a new & deadly disease, everyone would go mad.

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

6 Dec

Nothing about any of this, from the very beginning, has seemed as though we were heading in a direction that led to a point at which our lives would be given back to us. Nothing about it has ever felt temporary. None of the logic, the moral justification, 'the science' has made

any sense unless it represents a permanent and radical overturning of the way we have lived previously. The idea that the advent of a vaccine would herald a return to normal has kept a lot of people going. But what have you actually heard, since the announcement, to suggest

that's what's going to happen? I've heard nothing but indications that the vaccine is simply going to mark the final nail in the coffin of our civil liberties. Even if the rules are lifted, it won't make a lot of difference if people's psychology has been permanently altered.

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

24 Nov

The science surrounding Covid-19 & Sars-CoV-2 is all over the place. There is no consensus. The more we learn, the more confused we become.
Is the virus seasonal? Do lockdowns work? Are face coverings effective? Are PCR tests reliable?
I have informed opinions on the science...

But that's all they are. Opinions. And I accept that they might be wrong.
However, even if I am wrong about all of it - let's say the measures are working in preventing the virus from getting out of control & killing millions of people around the world...

We are still left with a huge moral issue.
There is no doubt that the 'new normal' is killing people.
There is no doubt that it is ruining people's access to work & love & happiness.

So we are not saving anyone.

We are simply TRADING lives.

And this is disgustingly unethical.

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

23 Nov

Let love prevail. Always.

Not sure if anyone's noticed this yet...

Many of the responses to this are fascinatingly revealing about how ignorant many people are as to how incredibly tiny the 'risk' in question actually is.
But also, just what an awful view of life so many people have.
As always, very encouraged that they are the minority.

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Bob Moran

@bobscartoons

22 Nov

An illustrated thread on masks:

Many people are still totally devoted to the idea that 'the science' proves that masks are effective. They relentlessly share reports, research, data & pictures of people urinating on one another to prove their point. Let's pretend they're right.

Let's imagine that it's true. Masks help to prevent the spread of respiratory viruses and help to save lives. The 40 years of research prior to 2020 was entirely inaccurate and once this 'pandemic' started, scientists decided to do SERIOUS research on the subject.

Given the nature of this virus, the number of people it has supposedly killed and the average age of those who have died, then putting that in the context of other respiratory viruses & past death tolls, how can there possibly ever be a time when masks are not necessary?

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