UK lawmakers grumble but renew sweeping govt COVID-19 powers

The virus will be going beastmode, starting now, with cold and flu season, wheezing, coughing, sneezing,

Legislators are increasingly unhappy about the government’s handling of the pandemic, which has seen Britain go from a national lockdown imposed in March to a patchwork of local measures of varying stringency, which Johnson and other ministers have sometimes struggled to explain.

Boris and his lot have struggled to explain the lockdowns because it has become increasingly clear there are no reasonable grounds for them. So instead they have to manufacture reasons to scare the population into compliance, using the police to arrest or intimidate people who publicly challenge the official line about how dangerous this virus really is.

These legislators who grumbled but passed the measures anyway are a bunch of cowards. Are they more afraid of losing Tory endorsement than standing up for an anti-authoritarian principle?

Lindsay Hoyle, the impartial Speaker of the House of Commons, said the government had treated lawmakers with “contempt,” with new laws being brought in without scrutiny and measures sometimes published just hours before taking effect. That created travel chaos for Britons on holiday this summer, as many had to rush home in the middle of their vacations when the government changed its quarantine rules.

This is typical behaviour of proto-authoritarian regimes - pushing through legislation without scrutiny. You only do this when you have something to hide. They claim it "passed a parliamentary vote" but do not give time for proper debate or amendment, making a sick joke of the process. Same thing happened with the PATRIOT Act back in 2001.

Meanwhile the Swedes, who made mistakes in the early stages by not isolating the most vulnerable people, have learned and are now able to move about unhindered.

Interestingly as a sidenote, the Walter & Eliza Hill Institute of Medical Research at the University of Melbourne is about to start a new study with hydroxychloroquine on frontline health workers as a preventive measure. Better late than never, but it's good to see that a respected institute like this is taking another look at this drug when Australian governments have banned its use in treating COVID-19 in any form.

https://www.wehi.edu.au/covid-shield-faqs

I expect to see a lot of mud thrown their way in the mainstream media and by Australian governments, but look forward to their findings.

Maybe the UK could learn something from this study and stop playing politics with people's lives and livelihoods.

Freedom and liberty is more important than a sick little virus. Look after the old and wounded, and march on to a great future.

Maybe the UK could learn something from this study and stop playing politics with people's lives and livelihoods.

It seems the UK's NHS started trials on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventative treatment some months ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52737169

What's fat Boris's new slogan ? "Hands knees and toes" or something.

The conservative party is insane.

Even when Japan and China were seeing cases soar, the Brits were going to race meets and soccer matches!

Boris was going around shaking hands and ended up with the virus.

The politicians love to make rules which they do not follow, as the case of an infected MP, Margret Ferrier shows, despite knowing she was infected, traipsed down to Westminster and then back up to Scotland in a couple of days

The ordinary Brit doesn’t have a hope.....