Lockdown: A Social Experiment

As you've probably come to realise by now, this blog is me talking to myself to try and make sense of things and honoring you with the opportunity of sharing my rambles. Better written down than warbled into the ether. Don't you agree? 

So today's topic. The lockdown as a social experiment. 

Well despite the Conservative government's slow reaction to Covid 19 and Boris the Fridge's suspicious behavior during it, it has to be said that in Wales and the UK, the lockdown social experiment appears to be working. Deaths would be more if we didn't stay in our homes and if we didn't observe social distancing. 

I haven't seen too much whingeing about it either. The usual suspects are talking about experiments in Chinese Laboratories with 5G masts implicated in leading us to this draconian, totalitarian state. With or without Covid 19 I believe that this lockdown needed to occur for the busy people to stop what they were doing and to contemplate their mortal navels and for the not so busy people, ok, sedentary couch potatoes, to plan on what to do and how to change their life once the lockdown has been slowly and cautiously lifted. In a Dis-United Kingdom of 68 million people odd, something needed to happen for all of us to '"Sit" as upon an order from the Dog whisperer Barbara Woodhouse. 

We were getting out of hand with our Brexit rallies and Trump blowing up Iranian Generals. Looking back, we knew that we were on the cusp of something but we didn't know what. Is it better that we are dealing with a global pandemic, than with a third world war? More deaths would be announced daily if we were at war with each other. What am I saying? it would be a nuclear war so it would just be Mr Raab surrounded by a bomb crater. Professor Chris Whitty in rags. 

So what happens after 'lockdown'? when we the sheeple return to our collective abnormality and insanity, to our fast cars and our fashion shows? The searchlight of forensic science has been shone on the two hothouses of care homes and prisons. Like cruise ships, these institutions contain a captive audience, some having paid for the privilege of being on board the floating petri dishes but mostly people have been shoe horned into prisons and care homes by a punitive society that does not care about those who are not productive and those who choose to break the law. 

Institutions are an absolute Fuck Off! They need dismantling brick by brick and they should not be rebuilt. From monarchy to westminster, from schools to prisons to care homes. We as a so called 'civilised society' do not need them in the way that they are constructed at the moment, the way that they were built back in the Victorian era and beyond. Institutions are no longer fit for purpose. 

If the 'lockdown' is as bad as some people claim, that it has violated their individual human rights to the benefit of the greater good, if this is true then surely 'lockdown' could be used by the department of justice as a punishment for anybody sentenced to less than two years. If you are sentenced to less than two years in prison then you haven't done much wrong so instead of taking up cell space and contributing to overcrowding, you could be under house arrest, under 'lockdown' as part of the community that you were a part of and that you will return to once you have been released from prison. It might need more monitoring, more cameras, more digitisation but instead of overweight, under qualified and heavily stressed screws (prison officers) taking their revenge out on you with a cell door closed, there are crews in cars on street corners making sure that you stay in lockdown.

Some people are interpreting this as a police state! I would be one of the first to criticise them under so called 'normal' conditions but I hope the police are using this as an opportunity to take things easy and have a bit of a holiday because their job is full on. Now instead of them taking the full force of humanities wrath, it is the National Health Service Staff & Carers that are taking the brunt of it. Humans happen to now be the carriers.   

    

Matt Hancock has now moved out of his orange study into a room with an LSD inspired piece of artwork with Elizabeth Windsor upon it. Is it a clock?  Or is it an interpretation of the Monarchy as a Virus? Will the Queen get a free 'Care' badge for looking after the wayward and seedy Andrew or will she have to pay for it like everyone else?  Somebody perhaps needs to pull him to one side and tell him that if he wants to get a knighthood he has to do a 100 laps of his garden and raise 23 million pounds for the NHS.