MY VERSION OF EVENTS....

Since the start of this pandemic, we have cycled through endless conspiracy theories about why we are in lockdown, why we shouldn't be in lockdown and even whether the virus is anything more than a mild head-cold. One of the most common justifications for covid denial is that 'there is an epidemic of suicide' as a consequence of it. There isn't, but that won't stop people using it as a reason to unleash furious diatribes on that basis. And the real kicker to all of this is that the people who often use it are the sort of Brexit/Tommy Robinson 'libertarians' who really don't give a fig about the deaths of people (I find they are also Grenfell-deniers and racists, too). Which leads me on to what I have been recently observing on an almost daily basis as a perfect demonstration of the kind of duplicities these people can indulge in; mental health baiting. The exemplar target of this would be Janey Godley, a Scottish comedian who came to my attention pri...