If I tell you you shouldn't eat chocolate, because it will make your head explode, then I take your chocolate off you and eat it - you wouldn't think
You'd be far more likely to think
(To fully complete the metaphor there needs to be a third person there, saying "but chocolate never made our heads explode before", and being roundly insulted by the other two as a "Chocolate Denier", who "just wants people's heads to explode!")
Whether it's Neil Ferguson or Dom Cummings or Chris Cuomo the message is the same. They are telling us they do not really believe there is any danger.
More than that, the press covering it obviously don't really believe it either.
Look at the crush of reporters and cameramen swarm over Dom Cummings outside his home this morning:
Remember: Cummings alleged crime is "breaking social distancing rules".
Are any of those people social distancing? Are they all wearing masks? Are they acting - in any way whatsoever - as if there is a genuinely "deadly virus" out there?
No, they're not. Because they don't
The same is true of the police, who will happily man-handle someone for not wearing a mask, despite not wearing masks themselves:
Or, without any sense of irony, mob protesters for not "social distancing":
Whether this is true Orwellian double-think or just old-fashioned dishonesty is not for us to judge (that's between them, their consciences and maybe their therapists). The internal complexities are as unknowable as they are irrelevant.
The point is: The police, the press, the scientists, the politicians - everyone spouting the need to follow the lockdown rules is perfectly happy to break them.
Because they know what they're really for, and it's not to protect us from a virus.
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