Lockdown's Fourth Birthday
Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org,
Last weekend marked four years to the day since the UK went into “lockdown” for the first time.
What an exciting time that was, right? With the pan-banging and the curve-flattening and the Spirit of the Blitz living on. Good times.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s team decided to honour the occasion by slapping themselves on the back:
4 years ago today, @RishiSunak saved our economy. pic.twitter.com/mzmLTmD8ca
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) March 20, 2024
Needless to say, this is revisionism of the highest order. To quote my favourite reply, it’s the “gaslightiest gaslight I’ve ever been gaslit by”.
The furlough system did not “save the economy”. The economy was not saved. Rather, it was laid out on a stone table and slowly flayed with a sharpened flint.
We are all still living with the consequences of lockdown, not just in the UK but globally. The world over, hundreds of millions of people have been plunged into extreme poverty by so-called “anti-Covid measures”.
Billions more are worse off, paying more for almost every product and service, and struggling in general.
It’s important to remember this was the point.
As we wrote in our piece addressing Covid revisionism last year:
The poverty, the depression, despair. The shuttered stores and closed hospitals and bankrupt businesses. They were all predictable, and all deliberate. They knew that’s what would happen…that’s what it was for. That’s why “Covid” was invented. Lockdown was not a policy mistake, it was a policy success.
Lockdowns killed more people than they saved. Lockdowns doubled global child poverty.
Lockdown doesn’t work, it never worked and it wasn’t supposed to work.
And the only thing more nauseating than the anti-human trolls pushing it at the time, are the same anti-human trolls re-writing history since, claiming lockdowns were a mistake or a panic reaction, or that no one could have known how much damage they would do.
As we wrote in our piece marking Lockdown’s first birthday:
Too often soft language in the media talks about “misjudgments” or “mistakes” or “incompetence”. Supposed critics claim the government “panicked” or “over-reacted”. That is nonsense. The easiest, cheesiest excuse that has ever existed.
“Whoops”, they say, with an emphatic shrug and shit-eating grin “I guess we done messed up!”. Unflattering, but better than the truth.
Because the truth is that the government isn’t mistaken or scared or stupid…they are malign. And dishonest. And cruel.
All the suffering of lockdown was entirely predictable and deliberately imposed. For reasons that have nothing to do with helping people and everything to do with controlling them.
It’s been more than apparent for most of the last fifty-two weeks that the agenda of lockdown was not public health, but laying the groundwork for the “new normal” and “the great reset”.
A series of programmes designed to completely undercut civil liberties all across the world, reversing decades (if not centuries) of social progress. A re-feudalisation of society, with the 99% cheerfully taking up their peasant smocks “to protect the vulnerable”, whilst the elite proselytise about the worth of rules they happily admit do not apply to them.
Lockdown was not a policy mistake it was murder.
This revisionism isn’t just about protecting reputations or saving face, of course, but about establishing a couple of important new “truths”:
Lockdowns are responsible for post-Covid excess deaths, NOT the experimental “vaccines”.
Lockdowns were so bad that we need to do anything we can to avoid using them for the next pandemic, including vaccine mandates and quarantine camps.
In the future we may see another lockdown – for terrorism or climate or “disease X” – but we might not. It might be we never see another lockdown again.
Either way, it’s a policy which realised its goal.
Massive unemployment. Massive misery. Massive state-overreach. Normalizing Orwellian police raids for private actions on private property, increasing snitch culture, and promoting fear and resentment of your neighbours.
Drugs, depression, suicide up. Prosperity happiness and freedom down.
And most importantly, they now know they can get away with it. They wanted to see what we would do, and for the most part the answer was “nothing”.
It was a test, and most people failed.
As I wrote two days before lockdown was announced in 2020:
“Special powers” don’t go away. They are not temporary, they won’t be surrendered. Everything we give the government our permission to do, they will do. For the foreseeable.
And now CBDCs and edible insects and 15 minute cities are on the way. They will continue to do what they want, because they think we’ll continue to let them.
Hopefully, next time, we’ll prove them wrong.
