Reply to post: Re: It reads like an Orwellian novel, only it's real

Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

Mark 65

Re: It reads like an Orwellian novel, only it's real

It seems COVID has provided a great opportunity to slowly boil the frog and remove basic freedoms that will now never fully be returned. It has demonstrated exactly how a population can be brought to the bidding of their masters.

No, that doesn’t mean I believe it was planned but all good politicians and civil service mandarins are effective at spotting an opportunity, and this was a golden once in a lifetime one.

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