it's the day before the solstice. later horsemouth goes with his mother to get the food shopping in from TESCOs. he does not like this idea (but he recognises the necessity of getting in the food and if his assistance enables his mother to do it in a quicker and safer fashion then that is all to the good).
right now all we really know about the new variant is how infectious it is, or, given the 2/3rds vaxed state of the london population, how well it evades the vaccine. we don't yet have the statistics to tell which it is we are seeing as the main effect and by the time we do it will be everywhere.
of course horsemouth's plan is to stay out of the way until it is clear just how lethal omicron is. (or was it omnichron? all of time.)
horsemouth believes in the vaccine, testing and public health measures (lockdown, social distancing etc.). by this he means that they are being proposed and operated in good faith.
in this he is unlike his friend the anti-vaxxer on the common who believes that while most shots contain just saline (in an attempt to put people off the trail), some of the vaccine shots contain poison. a friend posted a link to the anti-vaxxer march yesterday in london which, in a strange sight that he never thought he would see again, called for no communism.
now horsemouth cannot guarantee to you that there will be no long term health effects from the mass vaccinations because nobody can yet but he is reasonably confident that we are not being deliberately poisoned en masse. just he is reasonably confident that there is actually a coronavirus that causes 'covid', and that there really are patients in hospitals etc.
horsemouth's friend the anti-vaxxer believed we were all being slaughtered as a result of the great reset in capitalism (inspired by the masons and their call for more world wars). horsemouth questions why anyone would bother with this, they are making their money off us, and when we are (reasonably) docile, surely it would be much easier (and profitable) just to let that roll on without pandemics and such like.
the main beauty of conspiracy theories is that they give you some measure of control over difficult material. you have understood, you have seen through the mystification or the ideology, and now you can act together. lord it is a beautiful thing (unless you have fallen for yet another mystification).
as an ex-animal rights-er and anarchist horsemouth can tell you this. he has seen the beauty of ideology from the inside.
it is (of course) permissible to question whether lockdowns are necessary, whether vaccinations are necessary, whether masks are necessary, and (indeed) whether saving the lives of predominantly old people (those mainly killed by coronavirus) is necessary.
horsemouth thinks all the above are necessary.
it is important to explain that horsemouth brings no expert knowledge to this situation. he just thinks it is highly unlikely that the ruling class are engaged in fooling us (ok they are engaged in fooling us about capitalism and our need for the current ruling class). it is simply too complicated a deception involving too many people not to leak. horsemouth supposes that the virus is real and the danger is real and once the danger is real then the measures to deal with it are necessary.
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above horsemouth's second ever golden glow mix - tracks selected by horsemouth and mix assembled by howard. it came a mere 3 months after his first one when horsemouth and howard were in the first flush of enthusiasm for the project. we are now up to six appearances by horsemouth as guest DJ. as you will ntice certain people appear more than once (alice coltrane, willie nelson, nico, robbie basho, john fahey, jackson c. frank, pharoah sanders, fonatella bass (both with the art ensemble of chicago and solo)) and this defines the aesthetic range of it. there's folk and american primitive but there's cosmic jazz also.
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