16/04/2020

Very little in the news headlines different to the rest of the week, so here goes.

The main news out of America is Trumps lack of empathy for the suffering going on around his country, that is just my opinion. He is in talks to open the country back up saying that they have passed the peak in America, so it safe to reopen the country and will be outlining the rules for states to abide by. All this while New York reports an upsurge in cases. Trump is only interested in two things his re-election in November and how much money he can make for himself and his family. Biden may not be an Obama, but he has to be better than Trump or it will only get worse as this dementia fuelled narcissist carries on putting the name Trump first.

In dear old Blighty the news is that the lockdown will be extended for a further three weeks and no more Johnson in the headline "Yippee", but there was fresh focus on Brexit saying we will not extend the transitioning period passed the end of the year so a deal better be in place. What a f****** pile of bullshit, there couldn't be a worse time for us to leave the EU with the economic shit pile we will be in due to the coronavirus pandemic. Also there is fresh calls with reports of a further twenty four deaths linked to the virus in one care home for how the government has let down medical and care facility staff with the lack of PPE available putting so many lives at risk. I witnessed how a viral infection could spread like wildfire, when I was taking my father to his daycare sessions and they got cancelled over a simple diarrhoea outbreak among residents. Care homes are a hotbed of disease because anything the staff catch outside their workplace is transferred to the residents which is multiplied as each resident passes it on to the next one and so on. The lack of equipment just exasperates the problem when a flu or something worse like COVID-19 is put in to the mix. Also the heartbreak of family members of doctors, nurses and orderlies losing their loved one from the virus because of the lack of PPE is a scandal.

So as usual After a rant I like to bring some pleasant news and today it is again about Captain Tom Moore the ninety nine year old second world war veteran. Captain Tom this morning completed one hundred laps of his garden and finished before his one hundredth birthday at the end of the month getting an honour guard from the first battalion The Yorkshire Regiment as he successfully finished and raised twelve million pounds for NHS charities. He said he only wanted to raise one thousand pounds and was proud to complete it flanked by the soldiers. That's me done for today.

Rant you tomorrow!