Life today

 

Life today.

Jeremy Clarkson recently tweeted this to correct newspaper exaggerations of his personal experience when he had Covid:

“Dear the newspapers. I didn’t “battle” Covid. I lay on my bed reading a book till it went away.”

A reply from Michael said this:

“And you can of course assume that because that’s how it was for you, it’s been like that for everyone else. No one’s died. No one’s been really ill. No one’s been in intensive care. No one’s long term problems. Rock on, Jeremy.”

Michael’s stunning assumptions in an apparent attempt to ridicule Clarkson as uncaring or making assumptions. Yet only Michael made assumptions.

Julia Hartley-Brewer corrected Michael, saying this:

“He didn’t say of imply any of that. He simply described his own experience – which, in fact, is the experience of the vast majority of people who get Covid (7 members of my own family included).

That doesn’t imply that a minority don’t get seriously ill and that some don’t die.”

People today seem so ready to jump to conclusions, to exaggerate & imply things that were not said in an attempt to ridicule, and to stop comment.

That only spreads nonsense. Confuses people. Spreads the government’s and media’s claims and exaggerations.

In the confusion government escapes accountability and media continue scaring people to sell media space. And people come to believe exaggerations and even lies.

Next thing you know they’ll be trying to tell us that Nature’s trace atmospheric gas essential for all life on our planet, carbon dioxide - an invisible, tasteless, odourless, colourless gas - is a pollutant.

And that's despite Nature producing 32 times as much carbon dioxide as all human production. And despite Nature alone controlling the level of carbon dioxide in our air.

And then some politicians will claim that we need to tax human’s minuscule production of carbon dioxide; control people's use of energy, property, land, water, resources; and, destroy our Australian way of life or else we’ll destroy our planet.

Nah that’d be ridiculous. That could never happen. People wouldn’t fall for that lie.