they are crooks who have been injecting kids for years. they have heard about and seen the damage yet continued taking the money, did not research or care.

Even if there was such a thing as “left” in the 21st Century, you wouldn’t know what to do if it did something right, since your Cold-War “Putinbot”, “socialist”, “communist”, labels would have nothing to stick to.
Too many people are narcissistically addicted to their labels these days, which is an obvious distraction from what matters.
As for your last sentence, it doesn’t even make sense:
If you stand for truth and honesty, how can a dishonest label help you?
In any case, people always stand for what they agree with – if they can be bothered, of course.
The “left” in Britain perished with Tony Blair, and it is now unrepresented.
Everything is materialistic capitalism, and you’ll believe me when they come for the population’s pensions, waving “Even Newer Labour” banners…

“Please do us a favour and stop calling everything you disagree with “left”.
 
Well the left then need to do more right.
 
It has nothing to do with what one disagrees with but what one stands for.
 

BBC reported on this, and that Japanese are maskophiles, but still were at a loss to explain the few deaths, despite much changing of the subject.

In a chart with deaths per million, UK was way out in front of everybody, with Japan and China near nil.

USA had 400+ per million to Japan’s 8 and China’s 3.

But now the (pre-planned CYA) is to use soiled mouthpieces like Hancock to say, “well those numbers can be readjusted downward, now that we are clear about our accounting mistakes.” Or, Etc.

Then, as a perfect synchronized swimming event, and on both sides of The Pond, Trump got testy with Mike Wallace on Fox yesterday, saying the death numbers, etc, are bigly hyped (great CYA for BOTH sides, eh?) and NYT reports the Donald’s “untruths’ according to their staff presstitute David Leonhardt, at the very top of the page, this morning in my subscribed free “Morning Briefing” (beats their Paywall, now they are recently just everywhere online, for everything corporate).

Ain’t “free” NYT Propaganda grand?

Yes, but the biggest tipoff of the connection to genocides of Native America is that they are going to greatest lengths in their narrative to disguise it.

It’s those crimes of omission, ever more so, these days, than commission, the ones they studiously don’t report at all (let alone half-retractions that they put in the back pages) that really are the biggest red flags.

I look for those all the time at Wikipedia, because they are as good as proofs, guilty verdicts (well, except for the harsh sentences and reparations), when they omit certain well known (documented) clues.

Like the George Floyd psyop fiasco, their over-production values and ubiquitously staged fake uplift support, complete with cheerleader squads as at sporting events, is a real index of the deeper (corporate, slaveholders) “animus”.

As the saying goes, “You can fool most of the Nobel Committee most of the time.”

I think it’s more sinister even than that. Black-listing dissonant voices adds fuel to the “fire” that burns inside so many, if not most, TV watchers – the idea that “If the lockdown were a big fraud, someone would come forward and tell us so!” And around and around the madness goes; back and forth.
 
“Your turn!” the news anchor tells his or her listeners. “Yes yes yes to everything you say! Your turn!” “Now your turn again, viewer!” till the end of time.

A few days ago, as part of a discussion I ‘attended’ (Zoomed? Teamsed?) at a Zombie University in SE England, I ventured to sway a quorum of frightened people considering the first draft of a “Covid Code Of Conduct”. This was the work, mainly, of a senior HR Professional.

The Code decries ‘normal’ (yes, they dignified the word with scare quotes) everyday behaviours (the exact words) such as passing a drink to our friend, or sharing food. And there were about 15 pages more of this tragic bullshit.

In the same ‘meeting’ I waved my Hidden Disability lanyard with ‘ face covering exempt’ card at the webcam. “Could we at least include an image of this, and other alerts of its kind, to discourage the Mask Stasi?” My hope was that some of the students, assuming any show up to the Very Nearly Bankrupt University in Zombie SE England this September, might be spared interrogation by the Virtue Police of yore.

We shall see.

Thank you Sinead for so eloquently writing of What It Is Like.