Morning Comrades! By the time this email finds you, England will have ushered in their Freedom Day, a day where Boris Johnson and his merry band of corrupt, eugenics-loving ultra rich have decided to almost entirely re-open, or rather, lift most Covid-19 related restrictions.
Yes, today’s email is a special on this “Murderous' 'reckless' 'diabolical” decision -those are direct quotes from top-level UK and foreign scientists as well as other heads of state. I am writing this on Sunday evening, with some semi-serious side effects from my 2nd vaccine shot that I received Saturday morning, and whilst I hope you can excuse any odd spelling mistakes due to this fever, I will forever and gladly trade 24 hours of these side effects instead of catching Covid-19, let alone passing it on to someone else.
Fact of the matter is, aside from a cheap, egotistical move to garner more votes, this decision, considering the sharp rise in new infections and overflowing ICU’s across England is a cheap, or rather, criminal populist play by Johnson that quite literally will put your life at risk, for his ego and wealth. That alone deserves his removal and imprisonment, never mind the corruption and utter neo-liberal destruction of the UK. Before I get into a few more details, this goes out to all my friends, comrades and readers back home:
Stay vigilant. Wear a mask. Get vaccinated. Wash your hands. Social Distance. I don’t want any of you to get sick, let alone die, for the sake of going out to a club. I know for fact that the majority of you get all this, but pass the message on. The Neo-Liberal Wet Dream of passing on all responsibility to the individual, rather than leadership of society is coming to fruition and none of us can do this, let alone beat Covid-19, on our own.
The culture of impunity that this government has created - the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency, the deliberate use of performative lies – has produced the conditions in which it can ignore scientific advice and evidence. Its deliberate, systematic and ongoing destruction of our institutions, norms and systems of oversight and scrutiny, its privileging of propaganda over facts - this is what is enabling it to forge ahead with a strategy that it acknowledges will kill many more people: herd immunity by mass infection.
If you want to know why that is a “reckless and unethical experiment”, read the letter to the Lancet signed by 122 scientists and supported by over 1,200 more.
This is from the “Keeping The Receipts” Substack, written by Caroline Cadwalladr that i highly recommend you subscribe to. If you rather listen to the scientists, as we all should, considering that we know how every apocalyptic scenario starts, click on this thread below, and listen to Dr. Helen Salisbury:
At this point it is beyond clear, that both the, but especially the Conservatives but also Keir Starmer’s so-called opposition party, Labour, have absolutely no interest in doing the job that we pay them for. Leadership, especially in times of crisis. The entire reason to give up money and freedom in a democracy is to pool the resources of the community and arrange them in a manner to make them as effective for the betterment and safety of all it’s citizens. This isn’t happening, hasn’t happened since the day I was born and it requires action on our part. I am not sure what else needs to happen, to be proven in court(!), that our governments, essentially view their bosses ( us ) with nothing but disdain, continuously plunder our labour and wealth and are more than willing to quite literally kill us for their enrichment. This is a very plain and clear reality and I for one am done with it.
Again, first and foremost I believe the smartest thing to do is not to play along with the governments re-opening plans, but sticking to the precautions premeditated in this pandemic. Additionally, we have to hold these murderous bastards accountable. It’s time. Turning England into a global threat for cheap thrills, more money and some additional votes to continue to the plundering of the country deserves nothing short of being put up against the wall. Yeah, that’s me, I am sure we can find some other ways and means, but I do prefer effectiveness.
Be Safe friends. This goes to everyone to be honest as this neo-liberal wet dream of the “west” is literally being implemented throughout North America and the rest of Europe. Remember, there is an alternative plan out there, called Zero Covid and its way past midnight to force our governments to get on this.
I am obviously not going to leave you without your new weekly playlist. Here it is. It’s fucking glorious. You should listen to it.