Cheers brother!
Now, we both agree the virus is real and contagious, and I have little difficulty with anyone who looks at the response to it and says "the statistics have been twisted to fit the narrative." I agree. I see it in Ireland and other places, where people who died with Covid are classified as having died of Covid, and so on, and we see in Ireland a science driven response to the virus which is often contradictory and not seeming to be very scientific. Example, two weeks ago they placed us on Level 3, but now they say Level 3 hasn't worked so we should go to Level 5. This seems to me like Level 3 hasn't been tried long enough for up-to-date information on what happened during the two weeks to be collected, but since the scientists have been pushing for Level 5 for a while, it doesn't surprise me.
But the point here is, that this is scientists working with their data and formulating a response, based on that data. The other factors - mental health issues, a crashing economy, domestic abuse cases rising during lockdowns - aren't within their brief. They give the government the facts, and the government decides.
So far, so obvious. I agree tie reaction will be worse than the pandemic (if that's something you would say), but none of this fits a conspiracy narrative for me. For that to happen, we would need to be able to point to where the Irish government know they're acting dishonestly but continue to do so in order to please the conspirators. You know what I mean> They have to be in on it some way, either unwittingly, or explicitly.
Which brings me back to Boris: what's in it for him? I just don't see him signing up for a global conspiracy that derails his momentum. This isn't his kind of crisis. His crisis was the crisis of democracy and sovereignty relating to Brexit, which gave him an historic upward trajectory at the last election. I just don't see such a level of conspiracy being agreed upon by him - and everybody else in all the western democracies - and yet nobody gets wind of it except conspiracy theorists? You know what I mean? All the leadership in the EU, including countries like Poland, Lithuania which are barely growing their economies, the Spanish, Italians, Greeks, all of them keep schtum about this? I just can't fathom it.
I think the response to the virus is inadequate and dangerous, I agree with people who say there are too many experts being silenced, and I agree that Sweden seem to have taken a more mature approach - albeit still with restrictions - but I'm not quite clear that there's something global being planned, and especially not involving such an inept and useless crew as the UN...