30/03/2020

Well, its the start of another new week of isolation with no clear outlook for it to end. The government is now talking about it lasting well into the summer and we only just entered spring, what a total f*** up of a situation.

I am an unemployed writer and poet who for the past seven years has spent his time caring for an elderly parent with dementia. When my father passed away in June of last year I was told I had to survive on seven hundred pounds a month including paying my rent out of that and spend 35 hours a week searching for work.

Then we are hit by a global pandemic where everyone except essential workforce's are told to stay home and social distance. So what do I do, sit on my ass and do nothing or keep searching for a fictitious job when there is no one at work to select, interview and hire me. God only knows as the job centres are closed and the only way of contacting is through online communication or sitting on the phone.

Another thing I have been thinking about which might piss people off, which I will take any criticism for, is this government wage intervention law which allocates up to two and a half thousand pound a month to those workers forced to stay at home, where is the equal rights for all in that. Shouldn't it be two and a half thousand pound a month for everyone no matter worker or jobless. Alternatively shouldn't the workers made to stay home be paid the equivalent to the unemployed, seventy three pounds a week for single people or what ever the married allowance is. Surely in times like these every person is equal not just in health care needs, but in financial needs also.

I am searching daily for work and I am grateful I can claim benefits, but it just pisses me off that as usual the people deemed superfluous to those so called leaders of the civilised world are forgotten about. I know there are people worse off than me like homeless, pensioners without family, mental health suffers and most of all those poor souls who have contracted, are fighting to survive or have died due to governmental ineptitude to predict and control the spread of this pandemic.

If you read this, first of all if I offend good, use that offence to think about others out there who may be worse off than you and try to help them.

Rant you tomorrow!