I sent this to “my” MP, Jeremy Hunt, earlier today.
Dear Mr Hunt,
When I wrote to you about five weeks ago, the main subject of my letter was de-carbonization of transport. However, I also drew your attention to an article I had had published on the COVID lockdowns, and told you that I had found them to be “way over the top compared to what was actually necessary.”
I have very recently published another article on the subject of COVID – here: https://misesuk.org/2020/09/20/covid-19-is-the-virus-weakening/. The figures show that, over the course of the last three months or so, the lethality of the virus in the UK (as measured by number of deaths divided by number of new cases as at 14 days beforehand) has gone down by a factor of around 60. This means that the virus is now considerably less dangerous than, for example, ’flu. And so, all lockdown measures ought to be released as soon as possible.
And yet, there is now serious talk of a re-lockdown at national level! For “two weeks.” We know from last time round what that means; we were told it would be three weeks, and now it’s been six months. Moreover, it feels like we are locked down harder than at any previous stage. And they want to make it longer, and worse!
The people-haters, that want to lock down as hard as possible for as long as possible and don’t care a damn about how much pain they cause to people, seem to be winning inside your party and others. And the arbitrary and extreme fines they are demanding are a sign of a rapacious monster that has lost all control over itself. I remind you of Edmund Burke’s aphorism that “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.” And yet, these aren’t even bad laws – they are simply decrees of a small cadre! That isn’t the rule of law. That isn’t England. Moreover, in a democracy, government is supposed to be on the side of the people. It must never do anything which causes harm to those people without full and rigorous justification, which will stand up to scrutiny by objectively minded people (including me).
A national re-lockdown, in my opinion, would result in a meltdown in the public mood. As to myself, I have already lost all respect for the parliament as a whole, and for the great majority of those in it. Such a move would turn my disrespect into contempt and hatred, or worse.
So, I ask you immediately to add your voice in parliament to those who say “No” to any new lockdowns, and to demand that the public be provided with full, objective justification of every one of the measures that are already in place. Moreover, I would ask you, please, to use your seniority and your relevant expertise to metaphorically box the ears of those that are doing these things to us.
Yours sincerely,
Neil Lock
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[quote]”Moreover, I would ask you, please, to use your seniority and your relevant expertise to metaphorically box the ears of those that are doing these things to us.”[unquote]
They only do these things to you if you let them. The solution is to ignore them and vote with your feet. If there’s also a party to vote for that will end this, by all means, let us do so – assuming they will allow another general election.
Unfortunately Tom, the way the system is set up, all the major political parties want to harass and impoverish the people. I think it may well be because they see that people are losing confidence in the state and its political class (as witness the Brexit vote(s)), and are desperately scrabbling for excuses to keep the existing system going as long as possible. With the green mania starting to lose ground as an excuse for taxing us and regulating us out of existence, COVID fell into their laps. And they are using it to the full. That is why they are now making all these bad regulations, that if they would have really helped against the virus ought to have been brought in in March or April. It’s a case of shutting the stable door – and deliberately trapping our fingers in it – months after the horse bolted.
The case for a voluntary society is surely now stronger than ever.