You
couldn’t make it up…
…unlike
Boris Johnson
The man who lied and deceived his way to being the
Prime Minister now expects us to trust him in a crisis.
We’ve had random ad-hoc self-isolation suggestion and a social distancing
prerogative but unnecessary junk mail is still being delivered through my door
(and presumably everyone else’s) with nice glossy covid-friendly surfaces.
Tube trains in London were MORE crowded because the
current government of the cossetted forgot that public transport is an ESSENTIAL
service for ESSENTIAL workers getting into London and only skeleton services
were running.
On a minor scale - here in Edinburgh those women who
walk three – four abreast and never break rank for me are now flinging
themselves out of my way so tis not always me who ends up in the gutter or the
dog shit. Yay.
There are huge financial proposals from the
government for business but not for those who are going to suffer quickest – on
zero hours contracts or self-employed. Yes the Tories shook their money tree.
The one that only works when they or theirs want something. Like when the
Windrush ethnic cleanser Theresa May needed to buy the support of the DUP to
stay in power.
Schools are closed except if they aren’t.
Trump – the dullest tool in the shed has a racist
sharpie!
South Korea – (birthplace of K Pop!) is beating
covid-19 with organisation targeted like a guided missile while Britain and the
US look like drunk fumbling senile uncles behind the wheels of dangerously un-roadworthy
but speeding vehicles.
Lots of people – the sort the government doesn’t seem
to care about - can’t self-isolate to their second holiday homes but are
self-isolating in multi-occupation flats with shared air-venting.
As I said in a letter published in the press
recently – maybe we can get that idiot tape-worm Gavin Williamson (now Education
minister) he of slapping Russia on the
wrist for murdering people on UK soil – fame, to come and tell Covid-19 to
“shut up and go away”.
Footnote.
For those of us who have been paying attention for
years to the whole issue of pandemics and the environment and other things that
threaten human existence on this planet - on this blog and in other writing Zero One Zero Two the
current farce is driving us crazy.
If the old media don’t stop terrorising the
young with scare stories that distort the truth - into doing what they should have
been told to do in the first place in an organised way - panic fatigue will set in and people
will rebel even against the necessary but belated measures being put in place.
Clearly explain to young people that we need social
distancing to protect the vulnerable and to protect hospital workers like two
of my daughters struggling in an NHS that has been underfunded by this
government and its Tory predecessors for a decade.
We have two untreatable strains of covid-19 and that
suggests it’s good at mutating. As I keep saying in this blog we need to learn
from this. This is the warning tap on the shoulder not the real deal.
We need to oust the liars (Johnson) and the
incompetent (most of the cabinet) and the corrupt (Johnson and Patel), cancel
Brexit and make sure we can be on an emergency footing coordinated with the
rest of the world in hours not months or when Boris Johnson and his dad have
finished having a pint down the pub.
And Finally - On the way back from the shop just now
where I bought ONE carton of milk and ONE small bag of lentils and some reduced
price hot cross buns, I was preceded along the pavement by a big fat bee
swaying drunkenly in the warming breeze and that reminded me that if we learn
the other essential lesson of this crisis that we can pretty immediately turn
the pollution tap off IF WE WANT TO we could buy ourselves some more decades on
this planet.