Like the majority of British voters, I voted for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party back in December 2019. I voted for the Tories primarily so that the political impasse over Brexit could be broken and also because the alternative, a Labour Party dominated by Jew haters, far Leftists and Islamic interests was too awful a prospect to consider.

But, with the announcement by the Government that mask wearing will be compulsory from July 24^th in shops I find myself agreeing with Julia M who commented over at the Longrider blog about compulsory mask wearing. She said that she fails to see just how Corbyn and his Labour Party wreckers ‘could have been worse’ than what the Tories have become. I must admit I’m utterly disgusted to see a Tory government, a government by a party that should, in theory, be defending the freedoms of Britons, carrying out policies in peacetime that would not have been out of place in somewhere like the old East Germany.

There is no need for this compulsory mask wearing bollocks. Covid19 is to all intents and purposes on its way out. It’s going the way of most infectious diseases and has created a sharp rise in infections and deaths among those who are elderly or already ill and then tailing off as younger more healthy people acquire immunity to the virus. Covid19 is not the Black Death and neither is it at all similar to the 1918 influenza epidemic which afflicted and killed the younger and healthier parts of the population to a very notable degree.

If Covid19 had had any similarities with the 1918 influenza epidemic then some degree of government overreaction could have been morally justified, but is not justified as a response to Covid19 which has more in common with the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic. Like Covid19, Hong Kong flu killed over a million people world wide and also like Covid the primary death toll was among those over 65. Like Covid the Hong Kong flu was not a threat to the young or the healthy, it was mainly a threat to those who were elderly or immunocompromised in some way.

Those of us who’ve read the erudite and informed comments of former scientists, statisticians and other learned academics talking about Covid on the Hector Drummond blog understand that the death toll from Covid is not ‘unprecedented’ in its level when growth in the UK population is taken into account. Yes the excess death figures for 2020 look high when looked at on their own and out of context but go down when you consider that the population of the UK was 9 million less in 1993 than it is today. More people in the country will mean numerically more excess deaths. To give an analogy: Siphoning a gallon of petrol from a car’s fuel tank will have much less of an impact on the amount of miles that the car can drive before refuelling if the tank is already full than it would be if the tank was only one quarter full.

Boris Johnson’s government and the decisions they are making are not being led by science, but by the mainstream media who have created much of the panic among the population about Covid. You don’t need to be an academic or a high level biological science graduate to understand that viruses are tiny, so tiny in fact that they can easily pass through cloth or paper masks, especially when these masks do not fully cover the mouth and nose and have gaps.

Compulsory mask wearing is not science, it is virtue signalling and will probably have very little impact on either a virus that is in the process of dying out or the effects of the virus. This decision by the Government is merely the Government wanting to be seen to be doing something, anything, no matter how ineffective the policy may well be.

This compulsory mask wearing policy is, like the ‘lockdown’ and the subsequent trashing of the British economy, is driven not by science but by the media. For weeks now the media have been shroud-waving over the issue of masks and cheerleading the lockdown and the Government, rather than put on their big boy pants and actually govern based on evidence and for the good of the whole country, have caved in to the demands of the media for more and more authoritarian policies.

When it comes to Boris Johnson’s government, I don’t think I’ve ever been so disappointed so quickly in a British government or its policies and I’m a person who has been politically informed and aware since the end of the Wilson government in 1976. Personally I would have much preferred a government to be honest to me on the subject of Covid and say yes, some people will die of it but we can’t sacrifice the economy or the nation’s security because of these deaths. Unfortunately this government is weak. It cannot stand up to the vested interests of the mainstream media class, just as it cannot stand up to the loud but poorly supported Green movement or the Marxist iconoclasts who are trashing British history and culture with no real pushback apart from a few weak statements by Mr Johnson.

I wonder how many people there are who, like myself, voted Tory in order to bring back the freedoms we have lost or to steer the country out of the EU as an independent nation, disappointed and disgusted at how Boris Johnson and his government have turned out? I would guess that it is more than a few. After the botched way that the Government has handled Covid and the failure by the Tories to give us back the freedoms that the Left stole from us, I’m really not sure I could in all good conscience vote for the Tories at the next election. Britain needs some sort of ‘freedom party’, a party based on honesty and a party that will stand up for ordinary Britons, but that party, based on their record so far, cannot be the Tories as they currently are.