This week is unofficially “Ponty Week 2023,” as good old Ponty/Always a Kid for Today sent me three excellent pieces over the long July Fourth week (his third will pop this Friday).  It’s great to see one of our most steadfast and lively contributors back on the blog.

It’s interesting to think that The Age of The Virus, which so dominated our lives and thoughts for nearly two years, now seems like a distant memory, a bad dream best forgotten when one wakes up, returning to one’s senses.  That is certainly how the worst of the self-proclaimed public health czars and czarinas hope we will regard it:  a well-intentioned nightmare that we needn’t talk about any further.  They know they eroded civil liberties, wrecked the economy, and made anyone without a diaper on their face feel like crap, all over a highly survivable virus.  Better to sweep all that under the rug and let bygones be bygones.  Forgive and forget, right?

We can forgive individuals—we all had family members who hysterically insisted that flimsy paper masks would save us from ourselves—but we should never forget the heavy toll of our public health tyranny.  As Ponty points out, they’re going to try it again, and it’s going to be worse next time.

It is perhaps a bit conspiratorial (and even hysterical on my part), but I sincerely believe The Age of The Virus was a test-run for the End Times Beast system.  Just as people willingly lined up for The Vaccine, which was promised to be the ticket to a normal life, people will line up to take the Antichrist’s Mark so they can continue shopping at Niemann Marcus.  What is one’s eternal soul when there is a sale on capris?

Even if I am wrong about that particular claim, The Age of The Virus was certainly a trial run to see how obedient we’d all be.  The answer, sadly, was, “very.”  Sure, we had some ructions after the first month or so of the “two weeks to flatten the curve,” but most Americans went along sheepishly with the dictates.  Yours portly wore his mask as little as possible, but even I took two shots of The Vaccine (not because I wanted to be “normal” again, but because I didn’t know any better at the time—and I should have!).

Ponty argues that inquiries into The Age of The Virus in Britain serve no purpose other than to strengthen the regime the next time around.  I think he is only missing one point:  these inquiries remind us, the sane, about what they did to us.  We should never let them get away with it again.

With that, here is Ponty’s “The Year Before the Year After Next Year”:

It’s been a couple of years since the lockdowns in this country ended but every time I see a muzzled face, either out on the streets or in the supermarkets, eyes either blank or wide with fear, I’m reminded of that horrible period we had to live through and what it cost to the people of the UK.

I don’t know how things have been across the pond but I imagine the good people of the US of A have got on with life, the years of the ‘pandemic’ largely unaffecting its population. To be fair, if you lived in commonsense states, like the Dakotas or Florida, you wouldn’t have had to face lockdowns. There would have been no mandates, you wouldn’t have seen young children forced into face nappies or Karens shouting at their neighbours to mask up to save them from the dreaded plague. Your police force would have been tackling crime, as it’s always done, locking up murderers and burglars and generally keeping your streets safe, rather than marching citizens back to their homes because they had the audacity to drive a little further to stretch their legs or fining people for not strapping into a hazmat suit. I must admit, I (and I’m sure many others who watched and listened to decent politicians like DeSantis and Noem) felt a little envious at the time. Unfortunately, here, central government holds the leash on the whole of the country and their crazy policies were followed by every constituency. Ever since lockdowns ended, the predictability of that period and its inevitable aftermath have seen a cost of living crisis which has crippled the country’s finances and seen the price of everything, from fuel to groceries to travel and energy bills go through the roof. The government has its bogeyman – Putin – to blame on all of that but those who have had their eyes open and their brains unaffected by endless propaganda in the last few years know that lockdowns were the main instigator. When you shut down businesses for a couple of years and keep everyone indoors, that sort of policy is going to create shockwaves and, unfortunately, they are still reverberating. Add to this the lunacy of Net Zero and the trillions sent to Ukraine and you have a country on the verge of collapse.

If you, dear and astute readers, check out UK politics from time to time, you’ll know that in the last few weeks there has been a COVID inquiry. Not to find out whether it was wrong to shut down an entire country for a couple of years over a virus with a high 90% survival rate. Nor to ascertain whether shutting schools down and depriving our next generation of an education was a good idea. There have been no inquiries about the mass shipping of old people to nursing homes, which became virus death traps, or the fear pumped through airwaves on a daily basis. To my knowledge, they have not recognised the isolation of those left to die or fend for themselves alone, relatives scared out of their wits by a government and media who consistently informed them to stay away from each other lest the dreaded virus get them.

They have asked the public to share their experiences and even if they are flooded with responses, what good will it do them now? The people will still be left with their pain and their tragedies which the inquiry will no doubt ignore. Or maybe they’ll issue a half arsed apology, which will be of use to no one. I heard an advert on the car radio the other week, asking us to share our experiences of this period with the inquiry and shouted much the same into the ether. The experiences of the country should have been acknowledged at the time, when there was still the opportunity to change policy. Asking for them now is like calling the fire department after a building has burned to cinders. No. This inquiry doubles down on much of what was done and is basically an exercise to find out what they could do better in the future. My guess? Forced vaccinations and face nappies. Harsher sentences on those who break the rules (government and media exempt, of course).

Many of those who were asked to work from home during ‘the time that commonsense forgot’ still work from home. Maybe in a future pandemic (because you know that somewhere down the line, another will be concocted), universal income will come in and production in the country will dry up, the people no longer asked to work for a living, just to sit at home and drinking in the daily propaganda led by our state broadcaster, the Barbaric Bullshit Corporation. Who knows?

All I can say is that I lament for those who lost two years due to establishment scaremongering, especially those in their later years who would rather have been drinking in their retirement years and not locked at home, their children and grandchildren too scared to visit, and having to strap on a mask every time they had the opportunity to leave the house. I lament for small businesses who went under during that period and those who barely survived, still struggling to recoup their losses. And I also lament for those who are still walking around in a state of fear, their muzzles wrapped tightly around their frightened faces. Our establishment did its job well and if this inquiry is anything to go by, next time will be much rougher. I don’t have the words to describe this evil.

I can only hope that you, my American friends, are not facing the same post lockdown issues and I do hope that, in time, the leaders of our respective countries – and those across the world (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, to name the most draconian few) – are one day held to account for their actions.