This is hard. I've lived in Japan for 20 years now. I've watched the UK become unrecognisable to me. I have gone from being pro-Britain to very much ashamed of being British.
First they muzzled our thoughts with rules about what we can 'hate' (i.e. what we must like)
Next the rules about where you can go and when.
Now finally your voice is literally covered.
Yet speaking to people back in the UK, it is clear that people were eased into this gently. Even my own mother throws around nonsensical doublespeak terms like "shielding" and "social distancing". Twaddle. So many people just allowed themselves to be pushed gently downstream, just as they drift along the pavement in their muzzles, locked into their drip-feeds of media nonsense. Drifting toward what?
How are British people not rising up against this. Even the police— how are you living with yourselves? IS that why you joined up? It's an insult to our ancestors who died for freedom.
Why are people waiting for a vaccine when a vaccine cannot be made for a mutating virus? What end-game are they hoping for? Why is society being decimated for a virus that has a kill rate of no higher than standard flu — I feel for those poor vulnerable people but we cannot imprison 99.99% of society to protect 0.01%. We shouldn't live in a society that strangles free speech just in case 0.01% are offended, but it has happened.
In Japan, mask-wearing is normal, and has been for decades. Mostly it's done to stop hay-fever, or as courtesy when YOU have a bad cold. (I have to say the last time I went to London some idiot sneezed in my face, but surely the best way is NOT to go out if you are sick. Duh.
But it also masks (pun intended) a docility, a compliance, and worryingly a kind of self-assurance that these magic masks make one immune to infection. It is weird living in a place where this is the norm. And eventually people give in through the fear of failing to comply to social pressure. They don't even need laws here to make it work - t