The Daily Mail is creaking at the seams with articles screaming for an early end to lockdown on the basis the stats show the pandemic is no longer a major threat.
None of these pieces ever connect the crucial dots, that it's BECAUSE of lockdown that things have got much better.
None of these pieces ever connect the crucial dots, that it's BECAUSE of lockdown that things have got much better.
It's like complaining about the fire sprinklers in a still smouldering building, without acknowledging that it's no longer a raging inferno because they've been spraying water 24/7 for months.
Turn them off, and what happens? Doesn't take a genius to work that out, and yet...
Turn them off, and what happens? Doesn't take a genius to work that out, and yet...
The most whackdoodle opinion pieces call for the end of lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing and all other preventive measures... while pretending that the pandemic just melted away by magic.
But then, people of a certain political persuasion have long seen the pandemic as another extension of the Culture Wars.
"Wow, those woke politically correct lefties really hate it when their friends and family die before their time, bwahaha" - that sort of thing.
"Wow, those woke politically correct lefties really hate it when their friends and family die before their time, bwahaha" - that sort of thing.
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