‘Extinction Rebellion’ gets to protest while Covid goes on holiday

Their concept of law and order does not exist to ensure stability by providing fairness and an accepted arena in which to play politics, but in the friend/enemy distinction.

What an extraordinary coincidence! Covid has - for a second summer in a row - seemingly escaped the UK undetected and unnoticed by the chattering classes which have been viciously hunting the virus down for the best part of a year and a half. Last summer, Covid packed a suitcase and booked a ticket to an exotic getaway somewhere which wasn’t a major town or city where a Black Lives Matter protest/riot was underway. While police officers knelt for a movement seeking their abolition, Covid was lying on a deck chair, at a safe distance from all this political posturing.

Looking to avoid further carnage, its stay in the US was cut short by last year’s presidential election, where Joe Biden claimed victory after a few exceptionally tedious days of postal ballot counting and verification. It was like watching the extra time segment of a football game where both teams are on the defensive. Nevertheless, when Biden struck the magical 270 figure, street parties were to be seen in key Democratic strongholds, such as the capital Washington DC – it’s a good thing Covid told Biden’s supporters that they were safe to dance long into the night.

Now, preferring to be delayed on its daily commute by poor infrastructure and overflowing demand instead of deliberate disruption by a virtue-signalling hipster ‘movement’, Covid has decided to take time away from London until the city becomes navigable again.

But don’t worry, the virus has informed us that it will be back at Westminster’s next anti-lockdown protest. Here we can gather a detailed peak into the disease’s interests and priorities.

Of course, everyone has their own interests and priorities, including the reigning cultural vanguard, which melts the principle of consistency and fairness into rocket fuel which it uses to power its own agenda. Any article of policy or parliamentary legislation, cultural movement and ideological goal that falls within its virtuous perimiter is declared above precedent and thrown into the institutions and onto the streets, in a short-lived fiery burst of righteous indignation.

Otherwise, anything which represents an obstacle to the immediate ends of the cultural vanguard is to be crushed without mercy. Their concept of law and order does not exist to ensure stability by providing fairness and an accepted arena in which to play politics, but in the friend/enemy distinction where rules and regulations must be interpreted and applied differently depending on whether one is an ally or foe.

That is why the Extinction Rebellion movement will face barely any repercussions from purposefully clogging the arteries of the nation’s capital. A few arrests and slap-on-the-wrists here and there have never neutralised these climate alarmists for good.

There has been a rise in cases in the UK recently, but the prophets of doom which pounce on these statistics to try to push the population into both hysteria and lockdown have been strangely absent in labelling a week of tightly packed protests as a super spreader event. They wouldn’t dare.

I wonder how many of Extinction Rebellion’s foot soldiers sneered at lockdown sceptics when they gathered in a spot a few streets away from where they are currently standing? But their goal is far greater than some granny killer wanting a haircut - so they get a free pass.

Anything which the elite sanctifies, Covid avoids it like the plague, unless it is called in as a weapon.