In America, President Donald Trump has said a sobering warning by his top infectious diseases expert about lifting pandemic restrictions too soon was unacceptable. He accused Dr Anthony Fauci of wanting "to play all sides of the equation" in his testimony to lawmakers on Tuesday. The President said he was especially dissatisfied with Dr Fauci's caution around reopening schools too quickly. The director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases emphasised the importance of not being "cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the deleterious effects" of the disease. COVID-19 has infected nearly 1.4 million people in the US and killed 84,000, while ravaging the economy. So once again we see Trump making up the rules and ignoring the advice of the professionals making it clear he believes he knows better. What a F****** ignorant person this man is, he clearly thinks he has a better understanding and knows more than anyone else in the world.
So how about the other gormless leader back in dear old Blighty. Well it's seems for now that he has met his match or should we say linguistically bettered, in the new labour leader who in prime ministers question time called out the government over the sudden removal of comparison's to other countries death numbers since the UK became number two in the world for the most deaths from COVID-19 after America. Johnson's rebuttal was weak and lacked proof, he also began to lie and mislead the house over other remarks made by the health secretary about care homes and the death tolls in them.
On the back of that response their was another argument on going over council run carehomes shutting down and care staff losing their jobs, so labour are calling for the government to hand over the money promised to subsidise the sector which has been in crisis for decades. From Johnson's display over the last few month's and the inept press briefings by his colleagues, you have to ask why were these people elected into such demanding positions. They stumble and stammer through press interviews showing how little they actually know about the role they hold or how to realistically face difficult questions from trained journalist's or the public.
Then we get reports telling us that the World Health Organisation suspects we may never beat COVID -19 and that people will have to learn to live with the disease. All I can say to that is god help us and where was the authorities contingency plans to combat all this problems. Now with the lockdown eased we are beginning to see why the WHO predicts such a thing, one day in and the social distancing has ceased as the crowds piled on to buses and trains to go about their business yesterday ignoring advice to keep six feet apart and wear masks. so much for the governments plan to ease us out of lockdown, all I can see is a fresh wave of victims coming forward.
That's me done for today,
Rant you tomorrow!
