People “demanding” an end to lockdown. You’re arguing with a virus. If it gallops, unchecked, through the under 50s it will mutate. It’s a virus. Do you understand that it’s a virus? I’m not sure how you get through to people who are trying to negotiate with a virus. 🦠

— Julia Raeside 💙 (@JNRaeside) February 14, 2021

How can you be so daft? It’s because people have been under lockdown for a year. This was supposed to be a temporary strategy to “flatten the curve” (remember that?) to allow other, better measures to take over.

I will never understand the lockdown celebrants. Never. I know it’s all they have to cling to anymore, but it’s no way to live and people are eventually, inevitably going to rebel against it as it’s an inhumane way to exist.

These people will be positively cheering the permanent lockdowns that are on the way. They will alas be content in their pod with their cockroach milk.

Regardless of race, nationality, education, income, religion, party affiliation, people strongly prefer classical architecture. Here is something that everyone can unite around, something we can have in common. Why hate on that? https://t.co/tCwPCmmIwr

— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) October 30, 2020

But…but…but…I read online that it’s racist and white supremacist to want things to be attractive and appealing and have some humanity about them.

Of course, the idea that it’s racist to want everything not to be terrible was fed through several corporate interest groups to “activists.” And those groups just want to be able to build ugly-ass shit that catches on fire readily, but yeah…racist. Does much of the left just truly not realize it’s a tool of multinational capital, or do they just not care?

I have mixed thoughts about this.

Border controls should’ve been imposed early in the pandemic. That could’ve worked. Now, it’s mostly too late. And I, like many people, have friends overseas that I very much want to visit. At least one of those friends is more like family to me. This is the case with millions of people, some of whom have not seen family or partners for an entire year. It’s just not tenable or compassionate to people’s mental health or actual needs to have mostly-closed borders for years at a time, which is what the (mostly) liberals will demand. In this era, international travel isn’t some bizarre luxury for many, many people.

Weird how the “open borders” push has reversed now, especially among liberals, and might have for all time. That’s not clear yet but it sure is trending that way.

Unlike a lot of people, I will even defend the right to have a holiday as vital to mental health. We can’t allow the pandemic to remove all freedom and joys of life — and I say this because I see people talking (even in the comments of that Guardian article) about how we can never go on holiday again because “variants,” even with widespread vaccination, and too bad if your friend or partner is overseas. Why, just throw them in the garbage, and too bad for you that you listened to my “open borders” claptrap last year!

I always knew that this pandemic would become the excuse for many people to force others to go into full pod mode. I even wrote about it on this blog months and months ago. I just expected more people to resist.

Boxed in: life inside the ‘coffin cubicles’ of Hong Kong.

Hey, a preview of the plute/liberal dream future of low carbon emissions — the only future for some reason many libs seem able to imagine. Me, I can imagine a future of space travel and fusion power and removal of resource constraints, but the below is more likely:

How long before we see lockdowns used as a tool to ‘prevent climate change’?

My guess is within 12-24 months

— Simon Dolan #KBF (@simondolan) February 14, 2021

I was thinking about this the other day, that it’s a natural extension of lockdowns. I’d be absolutely surprised if that doesn’t occur as an interim step to “pod life.”