TRUST TO LUCK AND ANECDOTE

Should we dig our heels in over all this government interference with our age-old liberties?

It is very true that One Nation Toryism can look and feel like Totalitarianism. That dictators are those who got away with our liberties. Values and the urns are supposedly the nation's defence, but we feel herded by the media and govt legislation  We don't believe we will ever reach green pastures anew, they are propaganda mirages.

To the conspiracy theorists, it is also true that mRNA could edit up your DNA, which is the flip side of a cancer cure. I haven't read the warnings here, but I'd be a bit surprised if government were unleashing a planned extinction of its own people, or even sections thereof.

When the PM talks about using common sense in our social interactions, "common sense" isn't something that springs from the ether, it is the result of guidance drawn from  experience and controlled experiment....the domain mostly of scientists. 

Most sane people would heed government public service advice rather than trust to luck and anecdote. Most people would imagine this is government returning our civil liberties now the war's been won.

Having said all that, trusting in the common sense of the common person, a friend died recently after 10 days on a ventilator. He thought the threat from covid was rather overblown, considered the vaccine was unproven, was a carefree social type. It was as much the emphysema as the covid that killed him.