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Philip Johnston laments the fact that so many of his fellow Brits continue to obey “pointless and unjust lockdown laws.” A slice:

But if a law is to be obeyed then the way it is promulgated is of paramount importance. A democratic state cannot arrogate (đòi hoặc lấy cái gì mà mình không có quyền; đòi bậy; nhận vơ) to itself powers it does not possess and then insist everyone does as they are told, and yet that has happened here. Apart from Lord Sumption, the former Supreme Court judge, hardly anyone has questioned the legitimacy (tính chính danh) of these laws – the questionable use of the Public Health Act to circumscribe (giới hạn, hạn chế) the activities of perfectly healthy people, for instance.

Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, London, disclosed that behavioural scientists initially thought that they “couldn’t get away” with what China did in locking down Wuhan. “And then Italy did it. And we realised we could,” he added. There is something telling in that “couldn’t get away with it”, an acknowledgement that it was slightly nefarious (hung ác, bất chính).

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