Cambridge University's degree of separation: The ‘new normal’ is an abnormal world where we never learn to socialise
"Last week UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said the
most chilling thing that any leading British politician has ever said. In a television interview, she stated “I think we all recognise now that social distancing is here to stay.
"Note that Patel didn’t say
“for as long as we’re getting a certain number of Covid-19 deaths,” or
“for as long as the ‘R’ number is close to 1,” but simply that social distancing was “here to stay.” It would be the ‘new normal’, even after Covid-19 has run its course.
"Right on cue, Cambridge University has
become the first UK educational institution to declare that they will be operating social distancing until at least the start of the 2021 Michaelmas term."
"University isn’t just about ingesting information from lectures and writing up essays the night before the deadline. It’s about social interaction with fellow students, professors and college staff. It’s about girlfriends and boyfriends, or trying to get a girlfriend or boyfriend. It’s about playing sport, joining clubs and societies, amateur dramatics and having fun. It’s about Freshers’ Fair and Rag Week. It’s about getting ‘blotto’ after finals day and waking up in the morning wondering why you’ve got a traffic cone on your head and an ‘L‘ plate sticker on your back. In short, university is about growing up.
"Priti Patel’s ‘new normal’, as endorsed by Cambridge, would take us into a dystopian world in which we never learn to socialise. Where to hug and to hold hands, to kiss and embrace, to flirt and to establish new face-to-face friendships and relationships, is no longer possible."
"Sometimes you have to pinch yourself that all of this is happening. That anyone is even proposing it. But Covid-19 has been the game changer. It attacks the upper respiratory system, but it has also addled brains.
It’s clear that fears about the virus are being used to try and implement radical – and I mean radical – changes to our economies and the way we live, and have lived for thousands of years. But here’s the rub. These changes, which are
inherently anti-human, in seeking to present ‘social distancing’ as normal when it is in fact totally abnormal, pose a
far greater threat to mankind than the virus itself. And you shouldn’t need a degree (online or otherwise) from Cambridge University to realise this."
Cambridge University’s announcement that it is moving all its lectures online for the 2020/21 academic year is deeply worrying, as it seems to be an acceptance that social distancing is here to stay.
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