{"id":211367,"date":"2020-08-02T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211367"},"modified":"2020-08-06T06:14:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:14:46","slug":"the-governments-national-panic-service-is-being-used-to-keep-us-in-a-condition-of-perpetual-alarm-about-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=211367","title":{"rendered":"The Government\u2019s National Panic Service is being used to keep us in a condition of perpetual alarm about coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Hitchens \u2013 Daily Mail Aug 2, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Waiting for a second wave. One of the Florence Nightingale hospitals that were set to deal with an expected throng ofcoronavirus patients but which have remained almost empty. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The most common symptom of Covid-19<\/strong><\/a> is that you feel just fine. A huge number of those now being absurdly listed as \u2018infected\u2019 with this bogeyman disease are perfectly healthy.<\/h5>\n
If the trained hunters of the Government\u2019s National Panic Service had not tracked them down, most of them would never have known they were supposed to be ill. Why do we take this seriously?<\/h5>\n
It is a fact, not a \u2018conspiracy theory\u2019, that the power of the state is now being used to keep us in a condition of perpetual alarm. We are ceaselessly threatened with a \u2018second wave\u2019 for which there is, in fact, no evidence.<\/h5>\n
As I began to write this, I received a ridiculous text message from my GP squawking urgently: \u2018We have been made aware that the number of coronavirus cases in Oxfordshire is starting to rise.\u2019<\/h5>\n
No doubt Oxford will be one of the next cities to undergo some sort of renewed shutdown, to keep us in our place. This fatuous propaganda is just preparing the way. The more scared we are, the more we obey.<\/h5>\n
It ended by intoning: \u2018We must each do our bit to protect ourselves and others.\u2019 The use of the phrase \u2018do our bit\u2019, of course, invokes the phoney Blitz spirit that is used against anyone who looks at the actual researched facts and says, as I do: \u2018Don\u2019t be silly.\u2019<\/h5>\n
For daring to stay calm, I am then accused of being a collaborator with the wicked Nazi virus. The played-out, once-independent magazine Private Eye, now a boring mouthpiece of wokeness, actually did this to me last week.<\/h5>\n
The truth is that the number of deaths from Covid, even the fiddled and inflated version which the Government clings to, is falling closer and closer to zero.<\/h5>\n
So, even more significantly, are hospital admissions, which would be rising steeply if these \u2018infection\u2019 figures actually represented large numbers of seriously ill people.<\/h5>\n
These things are true both of Britain and of Spain, whose supposed spike in Covid was used to destroy the holiday plans of more than a million people last week in an arbitrary decision of astonishing uselessness.<\/h5>\n
At the peak of the epidemic in April, Spain at one point suffered 961 deaths in one day.<\/h5>\n
According to the Coronavirus Worldometer, the daily Covid deaths in Spain for the past few weeks have rarely risen above five a day, and have often been fewer than that.<\/h5>\n
And for this we destroy the happy innocent pleasures of hundreds of thousands, and deal another smashing blow to a travel industry already devastated by Government folly? Why do we put up with it? I have no idea.<\/h5>\n

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We are ceaselessly threatened with a \u2018second wave\u2019, writes Peter Hitchens. There is little to support this but the more scared we are, the more we are expected to obey <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211370,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211367\/revisions\/211370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}