Covid-19: Anh phong tỏa toàn quốc lần thứ ba

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Laura Perrins decries Boris Johnson’s cruelty (sự hung ác, sự tàn ác, sự tàn bạo, sự tàn nhẫn, tính độc ác, tính ác nghiệt). Two slices:

What Boris Johnson and his henchman (tay sai, người hầu cận) are doing now is cruel and wicked (xấu xa, độc ác, nguy hại, nguy hiểm). They have been aided and abetted (xúi làm bậy, tiếp tay làm bậy) by a propaganda (tuyên truyền) media that rarely asks any tough questions, such as how accurate is the 100,000 Covid death figure, where are all the flu deaths, why did you empty the hospitals of Covid positive patients and put them in care homes, why are schools still closed when Public Heath England said it was safe to open after half term, and how many lives will be lost to lockdown conditions and recession conditions?

Pretty much every question from the media is, why didn’t you lock down earlier, and why didn’t you lock down harder? This is what counts as journalism these days, a false opposition interested only in pushing the government agenda and propaganda. What the media have done is to manufacture consent from the population for what is a needlessly cruel and wicked lockdown that we will never recover from.

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As I have always said, lockdowns fail on every test: they are immoral (trái đạo đức, trái luân lý; đồi bại), they are unethical (không có nguyên tắc (nhất là trong hành vi kinh doanh thuộc nghề nghiệp); trái với luân thường đạo lý; không đúng với nguyên tắc xử thế (một cá nhân)), they are disproportionate and they even fail on utilitarian grounds. They break families, they target the vulnerable (dễ bị tổn thương), children and children with disabilities (người khuyết tật) the most. Johnson has needlessly kept schools closed and dangled hope for reopening in the future, always the not-too-distant future that never seems to come.

If he and his henchmen followed the science they would see how damaging lockdown was. They would know how cruel and evil it was. But they don’t care. For some reason they are doubling down, probably to save their political lives and the propaganda media, many bought and paid for by the Tories, and their corporations are enforcing this wicked dictatorial regime and manufacturing the public’s consent.

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