For 175 days I’ve been playing a new band or artist every day. Today I thought I’d return to Roy Harper and give his first album a play. It’s one I’ve been enjoying for fifty-two years!! Still as good as ever!
The Corona Diaries – Day 177
Carping Diem – according to Rees-Mogg the privileged toff says we should stop whinging and instead recognise what a brilliant job the government is doing!
I think I’ll reserve the right to praise them when they get something right. Having the worst death-rate in the world coupled with the worst hit to the economy of any G7 country is not, in my opinion, something worthy of praise.
Paying billions for substandard PPE. Organising an app that doesn’t work. Having a Track and Trace system that is more Trace where to Test. Lying about Brexit. Reneging on agreements. Breaking international law. Being behind the curve. Dithering around. Being totally unclear.
Sorry – can’t see anything praiseworthy about this performance – go back to lolling on the benches Rees-Mogg – daydreaming about what you are going to spend your millions of Brexit dividend on – more servants maybe?
It wouldn’t be so bad if we weren’t constantly told that everything is world-beating and oven-ready when it clearly is a million miles from that.
It isn’t carping: it’s calling out incompetence that is costing lives!!
Looking at this graph from the BBC. Even with Trump’s utter incompetence, we are worse!!! That takes some doing!!
Baroness Dido Harding messed up and was promoted!! That’s how it works in the world of Johnson!
Opening up schools without adequate testing for staff and students is an accident waiting to happen!!
Today we are up again – 3395 new cases. It is now spreading to older people. Hospital entry has doubled and deaths are following behind.
Perhaps driving people back to offices (just so they could buy snacks) and putting people back on transport was not a good idea, eh?
All over by Christmas Johnson??? We’ll see!
In the USA – 39095 new cases and 997 deaths
In Brazil – 36820 new cases and 987 deaths
They are tied neck and neck on the ineptitude scale – both looking to catch Johnson!
Today was a gloriously sunny day in Yorkshire. To get away from the sadness and badness of our politics we went for a walk in a nature reserve – Tophill Low. A fabulous place. We saw lots of insects and wildlife. So good to see. Nature might be stuck in the tiny oasis but at least there is still some. It used to be like this everywhere when I was young!
I took a lot of photos – I’ll put them up tomorrow!
So all the best everybody. Stay safe!!
Today’s Music to keep me ssssAAAAAAne in Isolation – ZZ Top
Johnson the Joker – Moonshot cartoons
I think people are becoming used to Johnson making absurd claims followed by incompetent performance.
It was the hallmark of his years as a politician and lamentable Home Secretary.
By now we know that it’s a pipedream – off the cuff bit of rubbish – just like everything else has been. Apps, PPE, Track and Trace, Brexit – all lies, smoking mirrors and dramatic hyperbole with no substance.
Put a clown in charge and don’t be surprised if you get stupidity.
The Corona Diaries – Day 176
Not so long ago BJ stood for Blow Job – oral sex on males. Now BJ stands for Boris Johnson. The major difference between the two is that the former created more output than the latter.
Our world-beating Test and Trace system is a shambles. According to Hancock it is going to take weeks to settle. We could be dead by then!
World-beating, oven-ready????? Unbelievable!!!!
It does not take a genius to work out that when you open pubs and restaurants, send people back to the office on public transport and send kids to school, that you are going to need more testing! And it’s got to be quick!
The cases are shooting up – another 3103 cases yesterday. The deaths are rising again too – 27 yesterday. Looking ahead, with the lag between cases and deaths, we are going to have a lot more.
If someone has symptoms or has been in contact with someone who has, they need to isolate. They need to quickly get a test and they need to know the results of that test so that they can be cleared to go back to work. Isn’t that obvious?? Isn’t that fundamental??? Do we want the economy to work???
Then why weren’t they planning for it? Why didn’t they see it coming? Why are they such dorks??
McNally, one of our experts on SAGE openly said that there were issues that nobody wants to tell us about. What are those issues???
As for Operation Moonshot??? What a joke. Pie in the sky!!! Johnson on hallucinogens!!
It seems that there is now Fact Checking of government claims. Just like they have done with Trump. In other words – they are lying to us!
That doesn’t come as a surprise. Cummings and Johnson have no morality. Their whole Brexit campaign was a lie. They are prepared to do anything – including breaking international law.
Meanwhile, in the States and Brazil the virus is surging again.
In the USA – 34,364 new cases and it is back up to 1287 deaths. (Some flu – some hoax – some going away as quickly as it came)
In Brazil it is as bad – 36653 new cases and 1113 deaths.
The three stooges are excelling themselves.
Today was a bit of a contrast to yesterday – much cooler with grey skies. I walked up my hill, came home, listened to some Kirsty MacColl and had an argument on facebook with a Trumpist Climate Warming denier.
Another day in coronaland. Stay safe!
Today’s Music to keep me SaaaNNNeeeEEE in Isolation – Kirsty MacColl
The Corona Diaries – Day 175
The government has brought out this ‘Rule of Six’. It’s illegal to meet up in groups of more than six unless you are out grouse shooting, of course. But then the rules don’t apply to the likes of the people who go grouse shooting, do they?
But don’t worry about the rules (unless you’ve got nasty neighbours who will snitch on you). Nobody has to abide by laws or rules anymore. It’s official. Particularly if they are international laws. We are OK to agree with them. Oh yes!! This Rule of Six is the best thing for Britain! It’s a virus-beating deal! Then renege on them. No, it is a terrible law. It cannot possibly apply to us. Besides, there are only ten of us and we’re all checking our eyesight and counting skills. On top of that, we’re hunting for grouse!
The Test and Trace fiasco (probably being run by one of Johnson’s relatives or a Bullingdon Club buddy) is still directing people to over parts of the planet or even other planets. I’ll be glad when this Moonshot comes into existence (probably Johnson bunging a few billion to one of Rees-Moggs firms). That doesn’t sound as if people will have to travel as far,
At present we have people having to go off work and isolate without a chance of a test. It’s leaving people in limbo and workplaces without workers.
Speaking of which there are already 695,000 people who have lost their jobs and as the furlough scheme fades away so will a million more jobs – unless the government does what other governments (like Germany) have done, and brings in a new, more tailored furlough scheme.
Or they could organise other employment. Perhaps picking up after grouse shooters as alternative employment?? Or helping Rees-Mogg carry the millions he is making out of Brexit to stash away in the Cayman Isles???
Today we had another 3105 new cases with 27 deaths. Both are going up. Given the lag between contracting the disease and dying I reckon we’re in for a rough month or two!
In the USA there was another 33,252 new cases and 447 deaths.
In Brazil it was 15,155 and 381 deaths.
Another gorgeous day in Yorkshire. I went for a long walk into Driffield and peered in the windows of shops in search of the old normality. It was nowhere to be seen. There were a lot of empty shops and shops that only open in the morning. A lot of people in masks. This was the new normality.
I worked on my Roy Harper book, played some Tom Waits and before I knew it most of the day had gone.
Stay safe everybody.
Today’s Music to keep me SSSSaaaaNNNNNEEEE in Isolation – Tom Waits
More Trump Virus cartoons
Poetry – You Set Me Free
You Set Me Free
You opened up the rainforest
And set me free.
You sent in the loggers
And released me.
Your hunters and merchants
Took me to distant lands
Your wet markets and butchers
Have blood on their hands.
Now I’m in your blood
Breeding rapidly.
I bet you are glad
You set me free.
Opher – 13.9.2020