IN AN UNKNOWN REGION. WHERE NOW?AN OPINION PIECE.BY STEVEN BENSON.

This calls for bulletpoints:P :-

1.Is it CHAOS THEORY (Cummings)?

2.Or just(unintentional, cock-up variety of)chaos

3.Is it HERD IMMUNITY?(un-proved and poured doubt on by reputable scientists)

4.Is it “harvesting”?  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/08/care-home-residents-harvested-left-to-die-uk-government-herd-immunity

(A beyond-disturbing read….)

5. A lethal(literally) combination of 1-4 above?

Or is it(my favoured, simplistic overview)?: Blojo et al are pushing it as far as they can, to see IF the public/unions/medics(esp epedemiologists/medics at the front-line)notice and are cognizant of the underlying, sick thinking; HOW much they notice and if the media cotton on or abuse/twist/chaoticise it EVEN FURTHER for their survival-of-the{again, lit}-fittest, populist smoke-and-mirrors end (excepting, largely, Guardian, Independent and those sections of the Left Wing media-“Canary” et al- who don’t make it even slightly worse again,:by capitalising on it for other (heavy left) agendas: the selfsame ones who slightly tweaked Corbyn’s sensible measures for mixed economy {statism/socialism plus ethical businesses} to make it a workerist-led semi-Stalinist “revolution”(sans women, lgbt, BAME,sans everyone but the working class cause -good though that cause be)

So, if Sir Keir{bless him, he hasn’t Jeremy’s fire in his belly;but he is appropriately forensic and politely persistent against the mass known as BloJo) continues-and the public continue to FAVOUR HIM ABOVE BLOJO in the opinion polls, we might have a chance….of what? Well, the BJ has already brought in more detail on worker’s safety{AFTER his poor cannon-fodder had no choice but crowd some of the tubes/busses}and schooling: in response (ONLY) to outcries. He tried it on, massively, disingenously, using tropes to effect of take responsibility{subtext} or it is all your fault we have the biggest death toll, even tho-currently anyway-you can’t socially distance on some public transport, even tho, simultaneously, I am telling you to go back to work in some vague circumstances of ” if you can” AND “stay at home”if you can (the two statements contradict each other; see what I mean re sewing deliberate chaos)……

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{time for a change of tone; not a fake BJ “stiff upper limit”/spirit of the Blitz/British pluck and commonsense variety!…..}:

MY ADVICE(For what it is worth):

1. Follow WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  guidelines and research, not our “government’s, in order to protect yourself, from the virus…. and from the government. “Be alert” for the ordure pouring out of Downing St.
2. Indeed, use commonsense(but in the real sense; and only where it is NOT a matter of complex, still-to-be -agreed-upon science and medecine); you can see as many friends as you like from DIFFERENT households: ALL AT SIX FEET/2 METRES DISTANCE FROM EACH OTHER(unless in the same household unit, and who are agreeing NOT to socially distance);and all OUTSIDE.It is NOT the number of people you see: it is the distance at which you see them; it is outside(not indoors); and it is whether they have symptoms,;and, if they have had them and they have resolved, they have undertaken the FOURTEEN DAYS POST-symptoms WHO quarantining advice.

3. Follow the WHO self-isolation guidelines if you have symptoms(during and, crucially, AFTER the end of symptoms, and for the recommended length of time{longer than our government’s})

4. Do not wait for (a likely, with these-viral and political-conditions reigning)second wave of Covid; take INDEPENDENT W.H.O and reputable international scientists’ advice.

I still cannot-obviously-guarantee safety; but you will have more of a chance than under this chaotic and or sinister regime.

Broadly, do what you need to do to protect yourself and your loved ones and the wider population. Research, think and read; talk to the friends who can manage reflection on this manifoldly distressing topic(some-more than understandably- cannot “deal” with the lethal concomitance of a literal virus and a metaphorical one: HM government).

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I have been loathe to write this: I am not a medic (though very well-informed re my own medical conditions), I am not a scientist; I am a fallible human, trying to make my way (like all of us) through this (likely intentionally) mystifying maze.

 

THIS IS AN OPINION PIECE{get-out clause….}

I am trying to process, as best I can, conflicting and likely harm-meaning information and DIS-information; and sift it out. When I can cope with doing that, that is……

So I shan’t be writing many/any more posts like this, ie in this direct(for me) style: I prefer/cope better with a vague, creatively-convoluted,style of utterance(as regular/occasional) perusers of these 10-year old e-tomes will, by now, have gathered!)

————————– So next, will Paul/Steve start out on his/my journey…. yet…or are we to get an (eighth) prelude(all the best people wrote 24:P…)?

 

Who knows? ….

I do believe our sojourner and peregrinator is going back (to the future? more like: queer, parallel, vertical time…) to ABERYSTWYTH, his alma mater and homeland; there will be solace(plus, obvs, a smidgeon of angst) there: the past is a foreign country, as another gay man said, of yore; or is it?……Calling at stations and halts to the hauntology-and-present(and yet-to-be)-traces-of-freemarket capitalism that thrive amidst the devastated( and environmentally semi-refreshed) covid landscape, where sick capitalism thrusts itself up from its death-bed; and in its death-throes re-invents itself off the backs of: the poor, disabled, and ethnic minorities… or does it? Come on Sir Keir: get on your mighty charger… and save us; meanwhile let us save ourselves,as we change at Shrewsbury for Aberystwyth on our tortuous winding way through plagueland,yet, simultaneously jackkniving back to the past….and perhaps divagating to Pwllheli, to overturn(someone’s) purported statement re said metropolis (“the transition from life to death is made easier in Pwllheli”); and grow green new rhizomes off these rotten trunks and branches…… let’s see