The Idiots are Coming, The Morons are Here!

So, another day in my current half life - one which left me pondering on the number of fucking arseholes out there.  Let's start with the anti-vaxxers.  You just knew that as soon as a Covid vaccine was approved, these clowns would be out in force, spreading their misinformation.  Sadly, I wasn't disappointed.  A swine flu vaccine from some years ago, which left some of those given it with severe side effects was immediately cited by them as proof of their anti-vaccine stance.  The problem was, though, that it was an untested vaccine which didn't have approval and those given it were made aware of the potential consequences.  So, hardly the same thing at all.  But that's what these contrarians are all about, regardless of the issue: comparing apples with pears to try and prove that wrong is right.  It was the same when Trump lost the presidential election to Biden and all the little Trump groupies were bawling their eyes out and shouting 'fraud!' with no evidence.  "Oh, so it is OK for you remainers to go to court to get the Brexit vote overturned, but not if Trump resorts to the law to overturn a corrupt election result.  Hypocrites!" They all cried on social media.  Except that nobody went to court to overturn the referendum result - the court cases were to ensure that government acted constitutionally and allowed parliament to vote on every stage of Brexit.  But hey, what are the facts between crackpots, eh?

Still, if we are lucky, the anti-vaxxers will subject themselves to natural selection through their refusal to take vaccines for potentially deadly diseases. Once they die out, hopefully a lot of the other idiocy we see these days will die with them - I find that it is generally the same people who like to fly in the face of reason.  If they are anti-vaxxers then, odds on, they are anti-lockdown, anti EU, you name it, they are against it.  I have to say that one of the pleasures I've had during this pandemic are the number of celebrities who have revealed themselves as idiots.  The latest is Rick Wakeman, who is apparently releasing an anti-lockdown protest album.  He joins the likes of Ian Brown and Van Morrison in being contrarians.  My pleasure comes from the fact that, in my youth, so many of my 'trendy' acquaintances used to hold these people up as being 'cool' and somehow 'right on', so it is good to see them being revealed as the ignorant, selfish pricks I always thought they were.  It gives me almost as much satisfaction as seeing that idiot Morrissey reveal himself as some kind of neo Nazi.  I never could stand him either, the sanctimonious git.  

To cap the idiocy off, today we had Education Secretary Gavin Williamson - very much the idiot's idiot - declaring that the UK had approved a vaccine ahead of other European countries because Britain was better!  (This was after several of his colleagues, including the unspeakable Rees-Mogg, Nadine Dorries and 'Door' Matt Hancock had spent yesterday blatantly lying by claiming that the vaccine's quick approval was only possible because Brexit had freed us from EU red tape - in reality, we are still in transition from the EU and subject to their rules, the rules which allowed a rapid approval for the vaccine).  Yes, we have better scientists than Germany or Belgium.  (Despite the fact that the vaccine in question was developed by a German firm and is manufactured in Belgium.  Oh, not to forget that the scientists behind it are Turkish immigrants to Germany).  The fact that we are better is presumably why we've also just chalked up 60,000 Covid deaths, the highest in Europe - better at not preparing for the pandemic, better at not securing sufficient PPE and better at devising a track and trace system.