When the Government plays nurse, it’s sure to make things worse

The infamous three weeks to flatten the curve has become 16 months to bulldoze our civil liberties, to remove what we once believed to be inalienable rights.

Beware the Government’s concern for your wellbeing.

The thousands of poor physical specimens rejected by the British Army for the Boer War revealed the appalling health of much of the nation in the 19th century.   

Attempts by the state to remedy this (one being the introduction of free school meals) were less an altruistic gesture born out of concern for the working class, but rather a realisation that a nation, let alone an empire, required fighting-fit young men to protect it – fit enough, at least, to die in battle.

Over a century later, it would be prudent to remain sceptical of government concerns for our wellbeing. Today the National Health Service has transformed into the National Covid Service,  with millions of Britons denied access to potentially lifesaving screenings, diagnoses and treatments. 

Read more of this article here at The Conservative Woman . . .