It has, for one reason or another, been a scary day. Driving back home I called in at a petrol station to buy some fuel. The only local place won’t take cash so I put my credit card into the machine and pressed a few buttons. To my relief the machine accepted the numbers. I reached for the nozzle, ready to start pumping fuel when I noticed a new message on the pump’s small screen. I can’t remember the exact words but the gist of it was that my card had been rejected. The petrol station wouldn’t take my card and they wouldn’t take cash. So the car and I limped home at 10 miles per hour, hoping not to run out of fuel on the way. I then spent a good portion of what life I have left ringing the bank to find out what had happened. Apparently, the bank had sent me a new card which had, for unknown reasons, been returned to sender by Royal Mail. `So, why doesn’t my existing card work?’ I asked the man at the bank. `Well, since your new card had come back, we cancelled your old card,’ explained the bank. They didn’t bother to ask me. They just cancelled it. You haven’t got your new card so now your old card doesn’t work. Leaving me with no credit card in an almost cashless world. And I suddenly had a glimpse of the dystopian society which awaits in the new world they’re preparing for us. Technically, I can still buy food, though I can’t get to the food shops because I can’t buy fuel for the car. I can’t buy anything online, of course. And I can’t pay bills. The cancelling of my existing card means that online accounts no longer work. I did, however, get onto the internet where I found out what’s happening in Slovenia where they have just introduced laws which seem to mean that unless you’ve been vaccinated and wear a mask you can’t buy anything except basic food and medical supplies – but only if the shop you use isn’t in a shopping centre. That’s it. The Slovenia website is a bit complicated and there’s a lot of it but it seems that if you live in or go to Slovenia you can’t buy a pair of socks or a new kettle unless you’ve been properly jabbed or can prove that you’ve recovered from covid-19 within the last six months. You can’t go into any cultural or sports event either. Not much you can do. Can’t go into a hotel either. So, your next holiday in Slovenia could well be spent sleeping under a hedge. That’ll be fun. Then I saw that the Government in the UK is introducing a digital driving licence which they say is in order to make transport greener and more efficient. So that will go onto your digital passport, together with your vaccination record, your full medical records, all your banking and financial details, your pension, your passport, your travel history and your entire shopping history. All held on your smart phone. When is that going to happen? Unless we manage to stop it, I give it two years at the absolute most. Everything you do will be measured, registered and controlled. Buy too much sugary or fatty food and I believe you’ll lose your right to buy food. Oh and your energy consumption will be on your digital passport too. If your carbon credits have all gone then, unless you’re a billionaire with a few forests to balance your consumption, you won’t be allowed any more electricity. Why do you think they’re so keen on us all having smart meters? It’s not to save you 10 pence a year. It’s so that they can switch off your supplies if you’re not behaving. Then I read about the man who fell and broke a couple of ribs. He had no symptoms except the usual pain. The hospital gave him a covid test. Positive. They tested him again and he was negative but they shoved him onto a covid ward anyway. He had difficulty in breathing, which is not surprising since he had broken ribs, so they put him on a ventilator and fed him an end of life cocktail. He died. Another covid-19 statistic. When I heard that NHS staff in the UK were threatening to go on strike, my first thought was to wonder how many lives that would save. It’s not widely known but mortality rates invariably fall when medical staff go on strike – even in less dystopian time. The NHS is now the National Covid Service – devoted to one disease and one disease alone. Next, I saw that they’re rushing ahead with double jabbing the frail and the elderly. A covid booster in one arm and a flu jab in the other. Where is the evidence showing that’s safe? Look on the back of your hand. That’s as much evidence as there is. Where is the research evidence proving that booster jabs are necessary and safe? Look at the back of your hand again. And just when I thought things couldn’t get any scarier I read that they are now planning to give the Pfizer vaccine to babies as young as six months this winter. That’s in the USA but it will be everywhere else too. Pfizer are doing in-house trials to show that it will be safe and effective. Jabs for children aged 5 to11 will be started in October or November. I’ve been writing and speaking about the side