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A scam? Depends what you mean.
I think we all should be extremely worried by the fact that the tories have passed the most oppressive law in our history.
If it's not a scam then it is a low-consequence disease which is not an existential threat to our existence and DOES NOT warrant such authoritarianism.
In Jan 2018 more people died of a virulent flu epidemic than died in a month at the height of this current one.
Did you all start asocial distancing, performing the holy sacrament before shopping, donning masks etc?
I've been an anarchist for around 30 years and I believe the state has absolutely NO RIGHT to order me or anyone else to shut down my business and remain at home with only one hour's exercise per day.
They have no right to remove my freedom of association.
They have no right to compel me under threat of violence to wear any item of facial clothing.
Sorry, I'm just a radical like that.
They are free to issue safety guidelines which they feel we all ought to obey in order to "stay safe and protect the NHS" (because the tories really, really want to protect the NHS-eh, readers?)
But they have zero right to enforce this unprecedented level of oppression on us all.
If you think they do then I'm genuinely surprised that you are a Cope fan.

Yorkshirepedestrian wrote:
They have no right to compel me under threat of violence to wear any item of facial clothing. Sorry, I'm just a radical like that.
So it's your freedom against my life. You'll forgive me for thinking you should be compelled to wear a mask. (Sorry, I'm just a radical like that.)

Just a few thoughts on the above.

1. I don't think you have the right to wear a 6 foot long rod with a broken bottle stuck to the end of it on your face. If you do so in public, I will call the police.

2. I'm sure you happily go along, without any such ideological angst, with many things The State orders. You walk along the pavements of Yorkshire, rather than down the centre lane of the M62. You drive on the left hand side, as mandated by The Authorites.

3. If someone chose to deliberately drive on the wrong side of the road because "No nanny State should tell me which side of the road to drive on", I suspect you'd have little sympathy for them when they got banned from driving for 18 months.

4. You've been an anarchist for over 30 years? Why? My understanding of the world when I was in my late teens and early 20's was very different to what it is now. As I've picked up or evolved thoughts and insights over the years, my views, and the labels I attach to myself have changed. Why the stasis?