Why are they so obsessed?
Every time ‘cases’ rise past an arbitrary threshold, there are wails of despair from a handful of the same people in the MSM (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/19/third-wave-of-covid-definitely-under-way-in-uk-says-expert; https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/06/03/boris-johnson-announcement-portugal-green-list-amber-covid/; https://lite.poandpo.com/news/sir-david-king-another-covid-wave-appearing-in-uk/; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chris-whitty-covid-winter-surge-b1867869.html; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/uk-covid-cases-could-hit-200000-a-day-says-neil-ferguson-scientist-behind-lockdown-strategy-england).
Their angst has become an embarrassing irritation, but there is a case for feeling sorry for them, as one might feel sorry for any other addict.
Get your masks on permanently, we need a winter lockdown, a 'circuit-breaker', don’t travel, get tested etc etc …. we must protect the NHS…. It is a consistent mantra with a simpistic logic. But it doesn’t make sense when you look at the facts. But then so it is with alcoholism, eating disorders, OCD….. The alcoholic has to plan to drink, the anorexic has to plan to diet and not be detected, the person with OCD just has to make sure the door has been locked or her hands are clean.
It’s not so much the distorted beliefs that are the problem, it seems to be the formulation of The Plan that does it - the bigger The Plan, and the more often it is repeated, the less chance there is of recovery.
Imagine a child on a beach who has been given a map with an X on it. The child has been told that if he digs deep enough he will find the treasure. He digs. And digs and digs but the treasure is elusive. Eventually he digs so deep that he is in a pit with walls all around him, the rest of the world in all its richness sits on the other side of the pit, beyond the walls, but all the child can see is the walls and the spade in his hand. And he just cannot stop digging.
Over the past months many have sought to understand how this state of affairs has come about, and how apparently well-educated intelligent huiman beings can so persistently stick to a Plan despite the evidence that undermines it. Some have pointed to 'conspiracy', but is there a more simple, tragic explanation. Are those who repeatedly try to restrict our lives simply addicted to the power, fame and excitement?
Are we dealing with a group of hopeless Covid addicts, unable to help themselves?
It is proposed that advocating restrictions on normal life has become an addiction for those in power