If you live with the irrational fear that I present some sort of threat to your wellbeing, because of my tendency to breathe in and breathe out 23,000 times a day, feel free to give me a wide berth. I don’t offend easily. I’m rather thick skinned as it happens.
Do not however, expect me to indulge your madness by wearing a muzzle or taking a potentially lethal experimental gene therapy drug. There isn’t a scintilla of evidence that gagging myself or allowing myself to be injected with a tidal wave of toxic shit, in any way protects you from a virus.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed yesterday, that facemasks and distancing would no longer be mandatory from July 19th. He did however suggest that people might want to wear them on trains and in crowded places.
England’s Chief Medical officer Chris Whitty said that he would continue to wear them. He actually said he would wear one if it made someone else feel more comfortable. 
This morning, the media is reporting that the issue of face mask wearing is the new culture war. Those who plan to wear them indefinitely see themselves as virtuous and selfless, while simultaneously viewing those who refuse to wear them as selfish and hateful.
Scientists took to the airwaves yesterday to condemn Boris Johnson for pushing ahead with plans to drop all restrictions on July 19th. Chand Nagpaul from the British Medical Association Chair, told SKY News that people should continue to wear masks, not for their benefit, but to protect others.
Of course Nagpaul wasn’t asked, protect others from what exactly? I’d have asked him that. He’d have replied, “covid-19.” I’d have torn him a new arsehole.
Viruses are not transmitted asymptomatically. Covid is not spread by asymptomatic people. Go back to last year. Anthony Fauci, the guy leading the US covid response, said that asymptomatic transmission isn’t a factor. Here in the UK, SAGE stalwarts Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance concurred.
Remember, these are the very same people who said that masks are ineffective in limiting transmission. It’s very important to keep those two points in mind.
They said that asymptomatic transmission is not a factor in the spread of the virus and that wearing a mask wouldn’t prevent someone who is presenting symptoms, spreading it.
The mandating of facemask wearing was never about protecting people. It was always about control.
If you believe that I should wear a mask, have a jab and keep my distance from you, to keep you safe, none of what I’ve written here will make a shred of difference to you. But my facts trample all over your feelings.
I am not a bioweapon. I am a law-abiding, socially responsible and thoroughly decent sovereign human being. I present no existential threat to you or anyone else.
If you’re terrified of becoming ill, feel free to lock yourself in your house or your flat. Wash your hands a thousand times a day. Wear your face nappy in bed. Wear it in the shower. Have all the jabs they offer you. Fill your boots.
But do not expect me to damage my own health (masks are proven to be unhealthy in the extreme) to assuage your totally irrational fear of a largely harmless infection.
Don’t expect others to impoverish themselves, their families and their employees by closing their businesses to protect you. Do you really believe that total strangers should commit self harm so that you can feel safe to leave your home? Are you nuts?
For what it’s worth, my advice to the so-called vulnerable is simple. Exercise daily. Quit smoking (if you do). Reduce your alcohol intake. Take Vitamins C, D, D3 and Zinc. Open your windows regularly. You’ll add years onto your life.
Oh and by the way, turn off the idiot box and stop reading the newspapers while you’re at it. The pandemic ends the minute you do that.
In short, get busy living or get busy dying. I choose life, always.
