by Dan Wootton at The Daily Mail
It started with a tight knot in the pit of my stomach that soon led to a feeling of overwhelming despair and ended up as a deep throbbing rage about what we’re all being put through again.
I’m sure many of you have felt that same mix of emotions these past 72-hours.
Much of it was sparked by the deja vu of a dreaded 5pm emergency Saturday evening press conference – like the one that saw the government unfathomably ‘cancel Christmas’ for millions of us last year thanks to Delta – where the fear and hysteria of a new Covid scariant was expertly whipped up.
But this time Boris Johnson, Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were not the Three Wise Men, they were the Three Clueless Blokes.
None of them has any idea if the Omicron variant is more transmissible or – crucially – if it evades the vaccines.
In fact, so far there is no evidence of pretty much anything at all.
The South African scientists who had discovered the thing in the first place warned we were chronically overreacting, rather than waiting for evidence.
But who cares!
In the hysterical new world where only Covid matters, it was full steam ahead with a raft of new restrictions…
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