Ooh - isn't Boris Johnson doing well in dealing with this crisis?
Actually, no, he isn't, but he is probably doing a damn sight better than Corbyn would have.
Years of austerity means that the Covid 19 crisis will probably result in a shortage of about 100,000 beds for people in dire need.
We should all pull together shouldn't we? All white goods manufacturers have run out of freezers now because loads of socially minded citizens have bought more food than they can eat in the next two months without it going off and being thrown away.
My local Waitrose has run out of all the basics, because people are so fucking stupid that they do not believe it is them who are causing the shortage. The warehouses are full but people must feel secure.
Meanwhile, bloggers who have previously told us that the thinning-out of old people was a good thing, and who deleted any adverse comments which point out how they are displaying somewhat hypocritical and conflicting arguments on the pressing issue are now putting out fatuous instructions on how to stay safe and look after our neighbours. Colonel Blimp supports it all, of course. Snowflakes, the lot of you! Lefties! Reds under the bed!
It's all bullshit. This is not a political situation, which is why - for once - Boris is listening to people who have no hidden agenda.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed the way certain bloggers have suddenly changed their tune re coronavirus. It really is all bullshit. And like Boris, for once Trump seems to be shutting up and letting the adults run the show.
ReplyDeleteHe's busy trying to buy a vaccine from Europe.
DeleteOh dear. Perhaps I'm one who needs culled. It just came to me that a tosser and a wanker are one in the same.
ReplyDeleteThey have just admitted that 40% of people needing intensive care here are between 20 and 50 years of age. And I deleted that word. Too personal!
Delete"They have just admitted that 40% of people needing intensive care here are between 20 and 50 years of age."
ReplyDeleteThat is scary. Things are changing so fast, but at least one hopes for the truth..
They don't want to cause panic, but I think that the young have been going around thinking that they are invulnerable to it. They have to accept that they cannot party any more for the foreseeable future, even if it is for others sake. I feel sorry for them. They are going to lose a Summer of fun. I would have hated it.
DeleteI took my life in my hands and went to the hairdresser this morning. All the staff are mid thirties and very gung ho about it all. They seem to be carrying on as if it's all a joke. Which it may be for them but not for us oldies if they pass it on to us.
DeleteBoris is looking very weary. He wanted to be PM so badly, to "get Brexit done" and so far he's had massive floods destroying the lives and livelihoods of thousands of people and now this. I bet he's wishing he was not in charge right now, playing politics is not as much fun as he thought when the real tough stuff comes along.
Having relentlessly attacked the Civil Servants since Cummings took over, they now find themselves in dire need of people who really know what they are doing. Thankfully there are some left who care more about the country than their masters do about their own careers.
DeleteHe should do one of his famous u-turns, which he is so good at, and extend the transition period by one or, better still, two years. Both are an option I believe. Otherwise a no deal Brexit will happen because nobody has been able to do any deals. Of course it all depends if he can do it without losing face. Nothing is more important than that. Maybe for once people would see him as a real leader making sensible choices for the good of the nation instead of a total pillock who only cares about his own career and fortune.
DeleteAfter months of ridiculing talk of the virus, it's suddenly "We're all in this together." Yes, it has been noticed.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if global warming now exists in reality?
DeletePollution is easing fast apparently.
DeleteYes, dolphins have been seen swimming in the middle of Venice for the first time in living memory. China will turn all the coal-fired systems again soon. They are beginning to get over the virus. Take a deep breath...
DeleteDear Tom, our chancellor Merkel told people yesterday that they should behave responsible.
ReplyDeleteThe mayor of Berlin now thinks aloud about "curfew", because in many "young and hip" neighbourhoods (as Kreuzberg) they sit around in cafés and do not believe anything.
Today in the supermarket (first time I wore a small protective mask) I heard a little child say to his father: "Papa - die Regale sind so leer - Papa, the shelves are so empty!"
It cut into my heart.
We still have everything we need: vegetables, fruit, chicken, coffee, bread - but sanitary shelves are often empty.
They will have "to wash their hands of responsibility" for a longtime, the hoarders!
The small face masks are only any use as a courtesy to others. There is no need for rationing, but there will be. Many people cannot afford to hoard.
DeleteI know that whatever I'd hoarded would lose its appeal after a few weeks anyway. There will be a raft of new cookery programmes on how to make a Midsummer feast from a Cup'o Soup and the last fig roll
ReplyDeleteMrs Patten will come back into vogue. Suet puddings, etc.
DeleteI agree about Boris v Corbyn, but I have a feeling that Boris is still dragging his feet because everything that needs to be done is anathema to his way of thinking about things.
ReplyDeleteOf course it bloody is. He was expecting a smooth ride on the top of a big wave, but - as it turns out - his chalice contains even more poison than Theresa May's.
DeleteAgree it is not a political situation Tom and agree with much of what you say - heaven forbid Corbyn standing up there.
ReplyDeleteCorbyn needs to go as soon as possible, as do the rest of his cronies.
DeleteI have a neighbour whose wife works on a Tesco delicatessen counter. She has recently experienced an object (I cannot call it a woman) spitting in her face when told she could only have three of an item due to rationing.
ReplyDeleteThe present generations have never experienced the blitz spirit which I (just) remember .
But, on a happier note, my next door neighbour, a jobbing builder with a young family, knocked on my door and asked if we were OK and said he would be happy to collect anything I needed from our local supermarket (Tesco) since their delivery service is overwhelmed and no delivery slots are available.
A kind action. At least some are lighting candles, rather than raging against the dark.