2/28/2024 0 Comments London lockdown april 2021The murder of a victim bound communities together via their unanimity of judgement the act of violence cathartic, whereby collective fear and rage is poured out upon an ‘other’ – the scapegoat. Whilst such protestors believe that they are pursuing truth, justice and freedom, they are actually engaged in is a standard form of human behaviour that has been around since we first evolved and formed communities.Īnthropology and literary criticism has taught us that ancient communities gathered around the victimage mechanism. Such influence results in the kind of anti-lockdown, anti-mask protests London has seen this year. As Byline Times has previously reported, the people who lobbied the Government with this misinformation have power, money and influence. Yet, influential figures from disinformation groups such as the Great Barrington Declaration had the ear of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor. It is an approach which has never before been used in epidemiology except through vaccination. ![]() It advocated that the elderly and vulnerable could be shielded from the disease while letting it spread among the population at large – theoretically building up widespread resistance. ![]() Commentators from the Daily Mail, talkRADIO, the Sun and others continued to ramp up the rhetoric that COVID-19 only really killed the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions, arguing that the danger to ‘healthy’ people was minimal.Īdded to the mix was the so-called ‘naturally-acquired herd immunity’ approach, which plagued the Government’s initial response to the crisis. The article suggested that previous health conditions, or old age, were key factors in making people die “more quickly” – rather than those deaths being “spread over the course of a year” – and, because nine out of 10 people who died had pre-existing health conditions, they were “at heightened risk of death anyway”.Īs the pandemic progressed, right-wing voices began to twist and distort mortality data in order to further their claims that lockdowns don’t work and that the Government had a responsibility to fully open the country back up. Last April, the BBC’s health correspondent Nick Triggle wrote an article trying to make sense of the increased death rates in the UK, asking “to what extent the virus is causing the death”, and what impact COVID-19 might have on overall yearly mortality rates. It’s message, in essence, was that the vulnerable, and those with underlying health conditions, were suitable scapegoats, necessary victims that could be sacrificed in the pursuit of ‘freedom’. Why are thousands of people regularly protesting on the streets of London against measures proven to protect people and save lives?Įarly on in the COVID-19 pandemic, an insidious narrative began to emerge, one that transformed certain people’s view and response to the health crisis and has persisted to this day. Russian Interference Byline Times leads the way in exposing the anti-democratic influence of the Kremlin over the affairs of other nations.Cronyism and Corruption Byline Times uncovers the nepotism that greases the wheels of British politics.The Coronavirus Crisis Byline Times exposes the Government’s dangerous ‘herd immunity’ approach towards the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as how incompetence and conspiracies contributed to the UK’s shocking death toll.Identity, Empire and the Culture War Byline Times explores the weaponisation of Britain’s past as a key tool in a dark project of division and distraction. ![]()
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