Post of the year!
However, this is the crucial bit, and I'd ask everyone here to LISTEN UP, and listen up very carefully........
When this pandemic is 'over', or as 'over' as it will ever be, do we want to retain the same standards of freedom, as we enjoyed pre-Covid-19, or will we allow ourselves to continually be surveilled and our lives unjustly and immorally controlled by the authorities, and our liberties curtailed, to the extent that the UK becomes more like a police state than we've ever known it, simply to be able to 'track and trace' this virus - or make some futile attempt at creating a 'cure'?
That, my friends, is the decision that WE, the people of the UK, have to make; DO NOT let it simply be imposed upon us......
I'm not saying that we're about to enter some form of totalitarian state , but we have to fight together, march, protest, ensure than dissenting voices in Westminster, challenging this 'new normal' are heard and have the necessary impact on keeping the controlling excesses of the establishment in check - do WHATEVER is necessary - to PROTECT the freedom and HUMAN RIGHTS we used to all enjoy as citizens of the United Kingdom, and was 'our normal', and which our great grandparents and ancestors fought so hard for us to have during two world wars!
So..... I'd ask you all to watch very carefully what happens in the coming weeks, and in particular what we will be 'asked' to do [read as 'asked' only in the sense that it won't become mandatory as long as enough people do what they're told], in terms of alleviating the lockdown - and here I'm referring to the government's Coronavirus 'traffic-light system', and what will be required to reach 'Level 1'.
And in that respect,
*think very carefully*, perhaps about more than anything you've ever done in your life so far [yes this is THAT important] about what you 'volunteer' to do - as trust me, there will be NO going back!!
Marco.