it's nothing to get giddy about, you know.

​The Racing Post today (Thursday December 3rd) dedicated 4 and a bit pages to the return of spectators to our racecourses. Good news, of course, though in truth what we are now allowed is less than half-a-dose of the medication needed to secure a cure for our ills.
I believe Tom Kerr and his boys at the Racing Post should remember that the sport’s life-blood was cut-off nine-months ago and the trickle allowed from this day on might be blocked without a day’s notice if the blind and deaf Sage advisors see fit to do so. Remember Doncaster and Warwick and the other false dawns. We, that is the B.H.A. and racing’s industry newspaper, should not be applauding the government for their benevolence in returning to us a small proportion of our civil liberties but intensifying the struggle for our full democratic right to freedom of association.
The return of spectators, even in limited numbers, is a step in the right direction and that must be acknowledged but it should not be seen as a directional arrow that points to a full house come Mid-March. There is the vaccine hurdle for the government to overcome twixt now and Spring with a higher percentage of people than the government accepts bridging the divide of being sceptical about complying with vaccination and those vehemently opposed to it. I am aware that racing-mad people probably are not aware of the World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’, of which our Prime Minister works as Project Manager on their behalf but a visit to their website will inform you that it is a tenet of their plans that attendance at all social gatherings – pubs, restaurants, musical events, football and rugby matches and racecourses – will be subject to people producing some form of Health Passport. It is my contention, given the information I have come across, that ‘normal life’ – remember ‘The New Normal’ – will not resume until the vast majority of the population are vaccinated. Bill Gates has said many times that this ‘Health Emergency’ will last up to eighteen-months, with the caveat that it might be longer if the roll-out of the vaccine was delayed. He should know as he, I believe, wrote the script that government advisors around the world have been working to.
The vaccine heralded as a gift from Santa Claus for the whole world, or at least Great Britain, will not, I have heard, prevent people contracting Covid or the coronavirus as government now refers to the virus, it only controls symptoms. Also, it has not been widely tested, without any sort of peer review or the specifications of the ingredients of the vaccine published for scientists to make valued judgement on. Yet here we have the Racing Post, in accord with all the national newspapers, proclaiming ‘happy days are here again’. I have to make plain, just in case anyone reading this has either not bothered to conduct any independent research or not take my advice to go on on-line to watch any one of Ivor Cummins ‘Viral Updates’, that the average age of mortality due to or more likely with Covid is between 82 years-of-age and 85. Around the world 99% of mortality is with people suffering one or more morbidities. If you or I, and I refer to the young-to-middle-aged and healthy older people, get this virus our survival chances are 97%. 99% for those less than 45-years-of-age. Do these statistics, and I suggest you do your own research to verify my view, suggest we should be vaccinating the world and stopping people attending race-meetings without recourse to restrictions on numbers and the completely unnecessary and scientifically unproven need to wear masks?
So, yes, when Ed Chamberlain gushes adjectives of comfort and joy tomorrow over scenes of muzzled spectators anti-social distancing as they freeze on the stone steps of grandstands, we, or should that be I, should not boo and hiss his obvious pleasure but neither should we applaud or shed a tear. For nine-months we have been used as propaganda by government, as we still are, of course, the exchequer’s need for revenue guaranteeing our place on the top tier of official benevolence. It is well overdue that we were given a little slack (for being good boys and girls) but the B.H.A. and the Racing Post must not accept for one breath that we have of December 3rd 2020 is all we deserve. Because, like the people of Great Britain, we deserve a whole lot more.