Is Flu Manchu Madness finally cresting? Has the entire world, finally, said “Enough!” to the draconian restrictions and lockdown madness imposed by ruling elites which have shown no discernible effect on coronavirus transmission and death rates? There are some encouraging signs:
Restrictions including COVID-19 passes, mask mandates, and work-from-home requirements will be removed in England, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday. Johnson also suggested that self-isolation rules may also be thrown out at the end of March as the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic becomes endemic.
Effective immediately, the UK government is no longer asking people to work from home. The COVID pass mandate for nightclubs and large events won’t be renewed when it expires on Jan. 26. And from Thursday, indoor mask-wearing will no longer be compulsory anywhere in England.
The requirement for secondary school pupils to wear masks during class and in communal areas will also be removed from the Department for Education’s national guidance.
Roaring cheers from lawmakers could be heard in the House of Commons following Johnson’s announcements on masks.
Johnson has largely been a disappointing squish on just about everything but Brexit, but here he’s finally undertaken a sensible policy.
All is not well in Belgium. pic.twitter.com/lgmioieZ2j
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) January 23, 2022
People are lining up along the sides of the road to show their support for the truckers who are standing up for basic freedoms.pic.twitter.com/2BwQXKvG8g
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) January 23, 2022
(Now might be a perfect time for an updated remake of Convoy. The original was deeply flawed, weirdly compelling, and Sam Peckinpah’s most financially successful film.)
“This [pandemic] is going to be remembered by the younger generation as a catastrophic moral crime." –@BariWeiss pic.twitter.com/yccNbqZObj
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) January 22, 2022
" I'm done with COVID" is short for: "Continuing draconian restrictions at this moment is inflicting far more damage on vulnerable populations (especially kids) than benefit, and I will no longer participate in your inability to consider trade-offs"
🧵— Vinay Prasad, MD MPH 🎙️📷 (@VPrasadMDMPH) January 23, 2022
Is all this enough to make our political class give up their suicidal fixation on vaccine mandates, masking and lockdowns? Maybe, though I think that disasterous polls for Democrats may provide a more notable prod. Vaccine mandates are a surefire political loser, but something deep in the Democratic Party seems to demand their implementation. And many rank and file Democrats have embraced mandatory masking as identity marker for their own inflated sense of self-virtue to easily give up on it two years into two weeks to flatten the curve.
It may take a truly epic whipeout in November to get them to change their tune.
Tags: Bari Weiss, Belgium, Bill Maher, Boris Johnson, Canada, coronavirus, Democrats, Ireland, Regulation, UK