Thursday 19 November 2020

These deniers are an insult to those who have died

We, SWMBO and I, haven’t found Covid-19 Lockdown2 too tricky but I reckon that’s mainly because we are both senior members of society.
No mortgage to worry about. No job security worries to cause sleepless nights. No wondering whether there’s enough money in the bank to pay for food shopping this week.
There – being retired does have its advantages. Told you so. And during the current pandemic the greatest advantage is being able to isolate without affecting our lifestyle too much.
Sure, we have missed meeting up with family for meals out, going to the cinema on a whim and deciding that the weather’s good so let’s take a trip to the Norfolk coast.
But when this is finally all over there is one thing I will not miss – the conspiracy theorists and Covid deniers.
I am a firm believer in free speech and people’s right to have their own views.
But surely to say there is no pandemic, that it really should be called Covid-1984, that it’s just a government plot and that we should ignore all the NHS advice is an insult.
An insult to our intelligence and, more importantly, an insult to the 50,000-plus people who have died in England to date.