Sunday 24 May 2020

24/05/2020


Yet another weekend in lockdown, where most people are doing there best to cope while others flaunt the requests to stay safe by gathering in groups, let's see what other topics there are to rant about today.

In America, as the death toll nears one hundred thousand Trump is creating backlash as he is pictured playing golf at his golf course in Virginia while his country suffers. It must be so nice to be able to just drop everything and wander around your own golf course instead of doing your job that you were elected to do while being mollycoddled by others.  In other news, a senior paramedic in New York City, Anthony Almojera is used to being close to death. But nothing in his 17-year career could have prepared him for the outbreak of coronavirus. The state has now had more diagnosed cases of the virus than any single country. It has the grim distinction of being at the forefront of a global health crisis. Anthony is now working 16-hour days to try to save people across the city, while supporting colleagues who fear for their lives and their families. All this while the Trump administration still plays down the affect of the virus on the country and trump finds time to tweet inflammatory remarks accusing countries and individuals of being murderers and liars when in fact he is the culprit for much worse acts of mass murder, fraud, sexual assault, lies, etc. All in all it still astounds me daily that such a person could ever lie and manipulate his way in to such a position.

And back in dear old Blighty the main focus of the news is still on the illegal movements of Johnson's chief aide Cummings travelling to Durham and the lies behind the journey, as several Conservative MPs have called for Dominic Cummings to quit, amid claims he broke coronavirus lockdown rules. Two national papers have accused Cummings of taking a second trip to Durham after returning to London while Grant Shapp, the Transport minister claimed the second trip was untrue and Mr Cummings would not be resigning his position in an interview on the Marr Show. It's clear that the public are being kept in the dark, the government busybodies are lying about certain topics and hiding necessary facts in an endeavour to sway the backlash from the inept performances of the MP's being tasked with briefings and television interviews as they fumble on through showing an inability to answer direct, probing questions. Again all in all, we have a government body made up of inept politicians who would've folded to Hitler if they were in charge during the war and can't fight their way out of a paper bag.

Rant you tomorrow!