[awakened53]

Peter Hitchens: ‘The prisoner eventually learns to be grateful to his captors for almost anything … Since we marched obediently into captivity last spring, we have turned servile. Look at us now, arguing about whether we should be in one tier of absurd limits on our lives, or another.’

The prisoner eventually learns to be grateful to his captors for almost anything. Once he has accepted his position as powerless victim, even the things he used to count as normal become luxuries. 
So it is with most of us. Since we marched obediently into captivity last spring, we have turned servile. Look at us now, arguing about whether we should be in one tier of absurd limits on our lives, or another.
We are like convicts complaining that we are allowed only salt, but not sugar, on our miserable gruel. Well, complain away. 
By the time this is over, you’ll be lucky even to get any gruel from Warder Hancock and Governor Johnson.
It was in those vital days at the end of March – when we should all have resisted and almost nobody did – that we allowed the handcuffs to be snapped on our wrists.
None of this has worked. As I have pointed out from the start, there is no evidence that the repeated throttling of our society and economy has saved a single life. Plenty of research confirms this. 
The latest is an article in the journal Public Health of November 19, entitled Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter Of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins Of Adaptation. 
After surveying the world’s supposed struggle against the virus, it concludes: ‘Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate.’


Read more: Peter Hitchens: ‘The prisoner eventually learns to be grateful to his captors for almost anything … Since we marched obediently into captivity last spring, we have turned servile. Look at us now, arguing about whether we should be in one tier of absurd limits on our lives, or another.