Caution: May Contain Logic

 It's taken me a day or so to process the last demonstration. As Essex participants will know, there was a significant delay in our journey to the starting point - a fatality at Gidea Park caused all trains into Central London to be stopped. Undeterred, the group splintered and made their various ways into Hyde Park. From here on, then, I can only speak for my small family group who made it to Marble Arch at half past 1. Half an hour late, we were still able to join the crowd that was streaming steadily out of Hyde Park, with many more to come.  It was undoubtedly the highest-attended protest yet. Aerial footage courtesy of Richard Tice shows the miles of road occupied by tightly packed people. The BBC even said there were "thousands" of us, so by the ratio of their previous estimates, I assume there were over a million. I was pleased to discover on Sunday morning that multiple papers had actually reported on the protest, and the Mail Online had used a photo that my banne

 June 21st isn't happening. Since March, I've been saying it won't. Every time I said that we need to take a stand to end lockdown, I heard back "we'll be coming out of lockdown very soon" or "why are you bothering when we know it's going to end on 21st June?". I do wonder how those people must be feeling right now. I have, in the case of those who treated me worst, been unable to resist saying "I told you so" directly to them. Nonetheless, we move on from this particular incident of vindication and must begin to examine why it has come about.  There are two clear and equally likely reasons for this postponement occurring: the vaccine, and the damage of lockdown. In the case of the vaccine, it is well known that the vaccine only has clearance for emergency use. It has not passed enough safety trials for mass distribution outside of an emergency situation. This means that if the government had lifted lockdown on the 21st as promised, the

For 1 year and 3 months, we've been talking about "when this is all over". Some people mean "when lockdown is lifted" but others, like me, don't mean that. Because we know that this will not be over when lockdown lifts. Nothing will return to normal, because the damage is done. I see everyone pinning their hopes on the 21st June, believing the claim that things will just go Back to Normal on that date. Let me see if I can enter the mind of a believer... On the 21st June, it is written, we shall be risen from the lockdown by our Merciful Lord and Saviour, Boris of Johnson. Most noble, he hath saved us from the dreaded coronavirus such as lowly humankind hath never before born witness to (except NL63, 229E, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV but they are all definitely not relevant and SARS-Cov2 is completely unprecedented, the name is a coincidence). We shall be delivered by his Mercy to our previous state - worry not, ye children, for your classmates self-wounded shall