Twelve months ago Britain rebelled against Covid hysteria. As Boris Johnson and his Sage modelling committee prepared to lockdown the country for Christmas, they lost control of the narrative.
First 100 Tory backbenchers MPs voted against the PM’s vaccine passport scheme, and a few days later Lord Frost resigned as Brexit Minister. In his resignation letter he expressed his concern about the government’s handling of the pandemic. Urging Johnson to ‘learn to live with Covid’, Frost warned against giving into the sect of the worst-case scenario. ‘I hope we can get back on track soon and not be tempted by the kind of coercive measures we have seen elsewhere.’
Macron has never shown the slightest contrition for his Covid authoritarianism
In reporting Frost’s departure, the BBC, very much part of the doom-monger sect, warned that the latest variant of the virus, Omicron, was spreading fast with 90,000 cases recorded on the previous Saturday.
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