‘Freedom day’ or not, are we really returning to normal?

These things don’t end when lockdown ‘ends’. Will they ever?

We have become so transfixed by ‘Freedom Day’ that we have largely forgotten – even if just for a moment – about the other aspects of this Covid madness. Namely, face masks and vaccine passports.

These things don’t end when lockdown ‘ends’. Will they ever? (Some certainly hope not.)

WHY is this woman a Government adviser?

Professor Susan Michie, a leading member of SAGE and long-time member of the Communist Party of Britain, says that mask-wearing and social distancing should stay in place "forever" as parts of our daily routines.https://t.co/QNmrDbW4Gh

— Michael Curzon (@MichaelWCurzon) June 10, 2021

The first, we can do away with ourselves. Toby Young made a good case for this in the Mail+ yesterday: ‘The only way to get our freedoms back is to take them back. And I will start by throwing out my masks on June 21st.’ He suggests that anti-lockdowners 'take a trip to Boston, Lincolnshire on June 21st and hurl our masks into the River Withan’ – the Boston Mask Party!

So we can do away with masks quite easily. If asked to put one on in the future, just say you're exempt.

Vaccine passports is an altogether more tricky subject. You can refuse to get one, or to use one, but that might (scrap that, will) limit what you do.

Fine, the Government has limited its scope for introducing vaccine passports, but will still allow venues to introduce them off their own back (which many, I’m sure, will) and is trialing a new ‘NHS Covid Pass’ and upcoming Euro 2020 and Wimbledon matches.

A new "NHS Covid Pass", showing a user's vaccine and testing status, will be piloted at upcoming Euro 2020 and Wimbledon matches and is likely to later be introduced at a range of other sports and entertainment events.
https://t.co/KP5ESn15vp via @LD_Sceptics

— Michael Curzon (@MichaelWCurzon) June 16, 2021

There is no ‘roadmap’ for these to come to an end. Not that the lockdown ‘roadmap’ has been any use! So again, will they ever? Is this part of what ‘learning to live with Covid’ looks like?

Also, while this ‘Pass’ (a word which ignores the fate of those who do not vaccinate or test) can display not only vaccination status but also testing status, what is stopping venues from using them to accept only people who have been vaccinated? I can’t imagine the Government having any problem with this.

Whether or not July 19th will beckon the end of lockdown (I believe it will not) makes no difference in this context. The Government will maintain as much power over us then as it holds now.