Yes it's Friday again and 'Lockdown fever' is one again upon us as more areas in the UK get restrictions thrown at them by local councils and the Tory government as a way to stop the virus spreading. Let's see what the world outside has been up to, shall we?
In America as Biden steps up his assault on Trump ineptitude while Trump announces and signs yet another unilateral executive order that he has dubbed “The 1776 Commission,” at the first White House Conference on American History. He stated the commission will be aimed at establishing “patriotic” and “pro-America” education that will celebrate American history. In his remarks, he criticized the 1619 Project, a New York Times project that explores slavery’s legacy. So if Trump criticises a project that wants to teach American students about the real American history and then signs in to law that students are taught about patriotic history, does that mean he see's the nations true history as fake and slavery never actually happened. For the sake of your children's, children's children you have to mark history with a humiliating landslide victory in November for Biden removing the 'White Supremacist' and false prophet cult leader from the Whitehouse.
In recent days there has been two women hitting out at Trump. One who was an aide to VP Pence and one who has claimed Trump sexually assaulted her back in 1997.
Pence's former aide has been recorded stating she will vote for Biden come November because she was disgusted at Trump and Pence's attitude to the pandemic. She claims Trump knew how bad the coming pandemic was back in February, but was more concerned about how it would effect, what he considered his record of success. This lifelong Republican, who served as a top organiser for the White House Coronavirus Task Force, stated Trump had referred to the coronavirus as a hoax in the early stages, but the truth was he didn't actually care about anyone else but himself and if Trump had taken this virus seriously, he would have slowed the virus spread, he would have saved lives. She also commented that Trump allegedly suggested during a task force meeting that COVID-19 might be "a good thing" because it would mean he would not have to "shake hands" with so many "disgusting people". It maybe all lies, but just consider for one moment if it is all true. How can so many people come forward with remarks about Trump on many different subjects which show the character of the man as holy unpatriotic, racist and xenophobic, Are they all lying? or is Trump the one that Hasn't been telling the 'TRUTH'?
The other lady that has attacked Trump and come forward with information about Trump's character is an ex model who has accused Trump of sexual misconduct. This brings the count to at least 26 recorded accounts of Trump sexually assaulting women between 1970 and now. The latest accuser who was 24 in 1997 at the time of the alleged assault conveyed what had happened to family and friends after the incident, but felt powerless to enact at the time, later considering to join the many women who came forward in 2016, but decided to keep her family out of the headlines. She has now decided it is time to come forward so that she can show her twin girls, who are about to turn 13 years old that you don’t let anybody do anything to you that you don’t want and that she'd rather be a role model to them. She wants them to see that she didn’t stay quiet, that she stood up to somebody who did something that was unacceptable. Again I say when so many ladies come forward to denounce a man publicly with similar experiences, how can the authorities ignore them even if it is about the President of the United States of America. Surely they can't all be just looking for their fifteen minutes of fame, placing their lives out there for the world to scrutinize and analyse over. When is this world going to understand powerful men and even some powerful women use their position or status to break the laws of the land and the laws of decency. Trump is and will always be a predator as well as a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic and corrupt human being who needs bringing to justice.
All this bad press, whistleblowing and recorded proof of Trump's incompetence, but he still takes to twitter to throw in to the ether dumbfounding conspiracy theories like his latest attack on Biden stating that if Biden had been in the Whitehouse Osama bin Laden, Qassem Soleimani and Isis ‘would still be alive’. His ludicrous Twitter attacks on his challenger yesterday, declaring that the late al-Qaeda leader (assassinated during Barack Obama’s tenure) plus the Iranian Quds commander and the Islamist terror faction would all still pose a global threat without him in the White House. Yet wasn't him who almost brought the international community to the brink of war early in the new year by having Soleimani needlessly taken out? And didn’t that kick 2020 off nicely? So once again Trump is taking credit for something his predecessor's administration was responsible for. He must live in a differing reality to the rest of the world, which really does mean that his sanity is failing.
On that let's change direction and check out dear old Blighty for rantable material. Well after the announcement yesterday that two million people in the North East of England now face new lockdown restrictions, it appears the rest of England faces the same, if not all restrictions. The new England-wide measures which could see hospitality businesses shut are being considered by the UK government [or should we say the English government as it seems there is no longer a UK government] to slow a surge of coronavirus cases which could last a few weeks and is been rumoured as possibly been announced within the next week. Schools and most workplaces would be kept open during those weeks as the Health Secretary stated the government is "prepared to do what it takes" against Covid-19 as UK coronavirus cases rose by 3,395 on Thursday. He also stated that there had been an "acceleration" in the number of coronavirus cases over the last couple of weeks, along with the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus doubling about every eight days stressing that it was "critical" that people follow social distancing guidelines and local lockdown rules, where they apply and if we do all these things, we could avoid having to take serious further measures. This new policy called 'Circuit Break' was outlined at a meeting on Wednesday night, where the government's chief scientific adviser and medical officer forecast that there would be a significant rise in the number of deaths by the end of October if there were no further interventions.
The possible measures being discussed would include asking some hospitality businesses to close, or limiting the opening hours of some pubs and restaurants nationwide, but no final decisions has yet been reached on the next course of action. In response Labour's shadow health secretary stated it's "not surprising national restrictions are back on the table" as the UK's testing system is "collapsing".
What I personally find worrying is that the whole of the UK which has been in single figures for much of the past six weeks, is suddenly recording the daily number of deaths of people within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test as rising above 20 for the past three days. Have we been getting fed false information by the government? or has it simply took the six weeks since lockdown easing for the virus to get a foothold once again? Like it did back in January when it was first detected. Is this the start of our mass extinction event? or have people just become too relaxed within themselves?
Basically the country and the world needs to return to normal to prevent a national and global economic meltdown like what was seen in the 1920's after 'World War One', first with the outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1918 lasting nearly three years followed by the wall street crash of 1929, a ten year period where the people of the world couldn't see a future for themselves. The more we are effected by the pandemic in conjunction with Brexit, the more the nations future will resemble the the catastrophises of the 1920's, but in a much shorter time frame. Another comparison that can be gained from looking back one hundred years is that both the consequences of the Spanish flu and the great depression combined heralded the rise of fascism in Europe leading to 'World War Two'. Why I say this is a comparison is because you have a sitting president, several sitting primeministers and a couple of dictators, all of whom could lead the world in to a third global war if nothing is done about them and their agendas aren't quashed now before they can hasten the highly anticipated global apocalypse of our future. I see it as a fork in histories path, to the left is wisdom and a route clear of the forth coming annihilation of humanity, while to the right is fascism, authoritarianism, mass deaths and a '1984' type of dystopia built from the ashes of 'World War Three'. On that stark insight in to my mind I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
