Its fairly clear at this point that Priti Patel is simply a front for a growing toxic and xenophobic policy designed to appeal to a media-polarised rightwing nationalism. So it always goes in the face of adversity we mistake restriction of liberty for order.
It is tiring to live in a country with so much potential, built on a history of immigration and hard-won battles for equal rights, to see an 18th century masturbatory fantasy lead our vote and policy against us. The world is changing, and Britain is an old fortress on sand.
Its simple really;
There is an idea of Britain, an old stubborn workhorse of moral authority who can be relied on to right the world.
Then there is the reality of a country split by poverty, fuelled by a divisive and malignant media and run by a cabal of isolated sycophants.
There will be no progress whilst this continues, only the continued erosion of our freedoms whilst our money is spent on rehashing the words of long dead monarchs and ministers, who would neither recognise or tolerate the world today.
Patel is just another face in a twisted and diabolical machine designed to hold the public in an enduring war against itself, whilst it feeds on the uncertainty, sadness and rage it sews.
None of this is groundbreaking information or nuance analysis, it is simply ignoring the noise.
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How to deal with pseudoscience in health: right vs wrong.
Wrong: thats charlatan bullshit and you are being manipulated.
Right: I see this is important to you and lets discuss it, and after I will support your choice. Tell me..
Alot of pseudoscience, especially in health, relies on linking superficially plausible ideas together to create a mechanism to address a need. The individual components of the mechanism may be believable, or have some romantic or mystic notion that appeals to us..
For example in homeopathy, "like treats like" has a romantic appeal, and can seem intuitive in a "test or train the system" view, and does work in vaccines (ish,) but actually has no evidence as working for most things. It is the idea that holds appeal, not evidence.
Wish the papers would stop with the "bring back the pub wave the flag" narrative. Lets not fall at the final hurdle and force another lockdown.
Just wait, vaccinate, be patient. Act with caution, not bluster and negligent populism.
We are all tired, lonely and fed up. We are all survivors. But lets rejoice in what, as a people, our restraint has afforded. It has saved lives. It has gifted years for connection, love and experience. I will happily delay a pint for that.
Noone ever thought this would be easy. But for those who claim, whether innocently or with vehement rage, that the "spirit of dunkirk" (or similar misappropriation of the sacrifice of others) is cause for the relaxation of lockdown, please consider what stoicism really is.