16/05/2020

Well It's Saturday and another weekend under lockdown even with the new rules for going outside, so let's see what's to rant about today.

In America, President Donald Trump says the US will reopen, "vaccine or no vaccine", as he announced an objective to deliver a coronavirus vaccine by year end. He likened the vaccine project, dubbed "Operation Warp Speed" (Are we battling aliens now?), to the World War Two efforts to produce the world's first nuclear weapons. But Mr Trump made clear that even without a vaccine, Americans must begin to return to their lives as normal. Many experts doubt that a coronavirus vaccine can be developed within a year. So once again Trump makes the decisions and tells everyone he knows better than the experts.

Also He has made the unilateral decision to sack the US state department's inspector general, Steve Linick, who has become the latest senior official to be fired by Trump. Trump said Mr Linick no longer had his full confidence and that he would be removed in 30 days. Linick had begun investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for suspected abuse of office, reports say. Democrats say Mr Trump is retaliating against public servants who want to hold his administration to account. He had opened an investigation into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. "This firing is the outrageous act of a president trying to protect one of his most loyal supporters, the secretary of state, from accountability," Eliot Engel, a Democrat, said in a statement.

So back in dear old Blighty, the news is full of more BS from the government telling lies about precautions they claim to have put in place back in February like lockdown protocols in care homes and schools before the general nationwide lockdown. Also since the easing of the lockdown the R rating for the virus spreading has increased again along with another Three Hundred and Eighty Four deaths, so that plan really worked well to get the country moving again and they are now putting plans in place to send the kids back to school, ridiculous. Matt Hancock even admitted in a press briefing he knew nothing about carehomes holding back information on whether there facility had suffered any deaths due to COVID-19 and that he would certainly look into that report which is bloody lacking in professionalism and deflected the question on nurses getting a pay rise by saying they had just received a pay rise, more verbal BS from the governmental bodies who are supposedly leading our country.

What else can the leaders screw up,

Rant you tomorrow!