Tyrants Impose Limits on Gatherings as Virus Wanes

The UK has been in the clear on the virus for a long time.

Here’s a relevant chart:

With a few exceptions, no social gatherings of more than six people.

That applies to indoors and outdoors.

It applies to your house.

If you have six or more people in your household you are allowed to gather in public or private (how generous!) but not with anyone else.

These rules are expected to last through the spring.

And all because of a modest rise in “cases,” a stupid figure that should be savagely mocked.

Forget about the original concerns regarding overwhelming the hospital system. Everybody knows the hospitals will be fine. Now it’s just a ban on death itself — as if the lockdowns themselves don’t cause collateral deaths. (Not to mention: who can think this bizarre dystopia is a healthy place for children to grow up and develop in?)

Israel, by the way, locked down hard, and required masks and curfews, and engaged in sophisticated methods for mapping contacts, and…now they’re considering another lockdown because of a rise in “cases.”

If all that couldn’t do the trick, what the hell are we doing?

(I shouldn’t say we. You and I have nothing to do with this.)

Here, by the way, is a graphical reminder of the helpfulness of lockdowns.

The UK, Lockdown Central, is in green. That other line is Sweden, the country we’re all supposed to hate:
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