Johnson and Javid obviously don’t want any annoying statistics to mess up their triumphant abolition of all anti-COVID precautions after July 19th.

(Meanwhile, in Scotland, we’ll still be masking/distancing into August: Sturgeon isn’t stupid …) https://t.co/XnQXdxTt1v

— Charlie Stross (@cstross) July 8, 2021

Where’s the end, though, Charlie? Covid isn’t going away. Still going to want people to socially distance and be in lockdown in two years? Ten years? Twenty? In this way of thinking it will be eternal, and I do believe it’s what these people want. There has to be a halt somewhere to the distancing and lockdown mania, though. It was supposed to be with vaccines. What happened to all you vaccine triumphalists (and I am one too) now that we have very effective vaccines?

We should certainly let the people hide inside crying who want to do that, sure. Not the rest of us, though. We should not have to do that for those who just want to harm everyone else. Let them harm each other and leave us the fuck alone.