Thread by @clim8resistance

A shitty day, with shitty news made by shitty governments.

At some point in living memory, it would have been possible to shrug it off, and go for a walk, stopping in at a pub for a pint or two and a smoke.

Now all -- the walk, the pub, the pint and the smoke -- are illegal.

This illustrates the fact of the 'slippery slope fallacy'.

It's not a slippery slope. It is a sheer drop.

There has been no resistance to the government's acquisition of powers.

I have argued with idiot normies from the outset. And at each turn, the claims are the same "if it can save just one life... &c &c".

It is always about 'protection' from 'risks' which are barely detectable, except through exotic statistical torturing.

And where are we? We have far fewer pubs. Everything is more expensive. And now people even fear exercise, which may bring them into contact with a virus or the law. Businesses are closing. People are losing their jobs...

Perhaps risk aversion is the most dangerous thing.

Whoever went to a pub on a Saturday afternoon because they believed it was 'safe'?

Are we better off now, in 2021, than we were in 2001, now that we are safer, and we have the government protect us from ourselves, from others and from the unseen dangers that surrounded us?

Here's the point...

It is disappointing for many of us who became adults in the 1990s, that we were only granted adult status for a few short years.

Thereafter, we were treated as children again.