Global Pandemic Event 201

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This is where that 'advisory' system that Governments offer to the public meets the yearning for control from certain
official factions of society. There'll always be one person in a position of power who needs to threaten to flex their
authoritarian muscles and through the correction of less-oppressive sections of law enforcement, the same public
are left confused.

Supermarkets have to make money and so they put offers on display. You're the dutiful character from an Orwellian
nightmare and after gathering your essentials from the store's shelves, you spy something that you'd like and at half
-price too. Slipping it into your trolley, you breathe a sigh of relief on your way to the checkout and think to yourself
that things might one day get back to normal.

That's when the uniformed man at the door steps forward and halts your passage. "It's up to me what you buy" he
growls and begins to rummage through your shopping bag.

Northamptonshire Police to fine rule flouters.

'A police boss has said his force is "upping its enforcement activity" as people continue to flout social distancing regulations.
Northamptonshire's Chief Constable Nick Adderley said he would not rule out road blocks or checking supermarket trolleys...'

And there it is, a threat. The threat that your choice may not be your own if you don't do as you're told.
Raise your arms in worship of Ingsoc, everybody.

However, after criticism, he was forced to clarify that police will not be judging people on what they are buying.
But officers will be handing out £60 fines for those not social distancing.


Chief Constable Nick Adderley -he knows what you're like.

Last month Mr Adderley spoke of a surge in reports of people gathering in groups but said he wanted to educate
the public first, rather than using police powers to punish those breaching government regulations.
He has now said the "three-week grace period is over".
Officers can issue penalty notices of £60 which are doubled for each repeat offence up to a £960 cap.

"UK Police:“We will not at this stage be starting to marshal supermarkets and check-in the items in baskets
and trolleys to see whether it is a legitimate necessary item but...if people do not head the warnings...
we will start to do that” -Twitter Link:

Mr Adderley said while most people were staying at home, "sadly, there are a small minority of people in this county who
continue to flout the restrictions despite how hard we have tried to engage with them". "This is why we will be upping our
enforcement activity and fining people who are found to be breaching the Covid-19 restrictions, be it people gathering in
public or at other people's homes, or making journeys that are not essential," he said.

Mr Adderley added: "We will not, at this stage, be setting up road blocks. We will not, at this stage, start to marshal
supermarkets and checking the items in baskets and trolleys to see whether it's a legitimate, necessary item.
"But again, be under no illusion, if people do not heed the warnings and the pleas I'm making today, we will start to do that."

However after criticism on social media, from among others former Justice Secretary David Gauke and from UK civil liberties
group Big Brother Watch which compared the measures to a "police state", Mr Adderley tweeted to clarify his comments.

BBC:

"I will keep reiterating the position, we will NOT be searching trolleys or baskets and we will not be determining
what is and isn’t an essential item. The point I was making was around the necessity of the journey." -Twitter Link:

So where did Chief Constable Nick Adderley get his first comment from...?

Anger at the public not believing the media?
Are the public having doubts on the political-system due to the Scottish Chief medical Officer flouting the advice she'd
given said public and left her family home in Edinburgh and went to her second house in Earlsferry in Fife?
(Reportedly four times!)

Or are UK's public ignoring the Covid-19 warnings because Cabinet minister -Robert Jenrick, who travelled 150 miles
from London to his £1.1million home in Herefordshire and then visited his parents in Shropshire, 40 miles away?

A quote from George Orwell's '1984' book: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”