Its midweek again as we ebb ever nearer to the festive time of year without a clue of what to expect because the protocols been implemented or not been implemented as the case may be, are just too confusing to navigate. In the UK there are four different devolved categories of restriction people have to adhere to while America I suppose has 50 different states of play because congress and the sitting president’s administration can’t come to a consensus of what should or shouldn’t be done. All this confusion and that is only in two nations of the globe. Until there is a global consensus which everyone adheres to, we will never be free from this pandemic. Anyway let’s see what has been happening since I last ranted.
In America I am surprised anything is actually getting done as the country teeters between fantasy and reality with their current predicament of two leaders and one pandemic in a battle of wills. On one side you have a president-elect who is setting out a time scale of what needs to happen in his first 100 days in office, while on the other you have a lame duck president who is still refusing to acknowledge the over ‘Two hundred and eighty thousand’ dead while preaching about his imaginary successes in the balancing of the stock market, ‘Warp Speed’ vaccine creation and how the election was stolen from him. January 20th can’t come quick enough as this unbalanced government needs steadying and the path ahead made visible. While Biden holds fast on this planet, it appears Trump is living in a parallel universe where the pandemic and the voting public haven’t destroyed his dreams of global domination.
And while Trump lives in his parallel universe still insisting he is the true winner of the November 3rd election, back in this reality his latest lawsuit which has finally reached the Supreme Court has crashed and burned. After the Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf had already certified Mr Biden's victory and the state's top court had rejected Trump’s campaign bid last week to overturn the decision they sent an appeal to the US Supreme Court in Washington. This was dismissed with only one sentence which simply read “No court has ever issued an order nullifying a governor's certification of presidential election results”, not even a mention of the allegations of voter fraud and illegal votes. Basically Trump’s bought and paid for justices couldn’t help him illegally stop the Pennsylvania certification. This isn’t the finally of the attempts been made as there is still some morons in Texas trying to subvert the constitution with frivolous lawsuits accusing four states of election irregularities which is just ridiculous on all types of level. When are the Republicans going to understand they have lost this battle, there dictator has been slain and is been evicted very, very soon while there Senate majority is still under attack as the Georgia runoffs start to appear on the horizon.
I know I am an outsider, but isn’t it about time some of these politicians on both sides of the aisle stepped away from the mirror they so clearly enjoy peering in to and look at how the rest of the world actually views them, because from the outside they appear as vain, narcissistic nobodies who are simply pretending to do a job while living it large on the taxpayers dime. It is time each and every politician no matter the constituency or country be held legally accountable for their actions and brought to their knees for the incompetence they have shown during this hellish year of death, disease and financial ruination while you have on the other side of the equation doctors, nurses and paramedics putting themselves at risk hourly by travelling to COVID hotspots to aid in the suffering of millions like the professionals they truly are.
On that note I will skip to dear old Blighty and check in on our own ruination. So basically while Johnson fights with the EU over Brexit, the rest of the populous awaits its turn to be given the COVID vaccine, but how will you be chosen and when will it happen? These are the question people want answering at the moment.
So first getting back to Brexit, I have let it be known in the past I was on the side of the ‘remain vote’ and find it ludicrous we are even leaving the common market, but we are and that is my pain to bare. The latest is that things are still not going Johnson’s way and time is running out to reach a deal before December 31st, when the UK stops following EU trading rules. This is going to cost us as a nation billions of pounds and some businesses will suffer or even disappear when new rules come in to practice. We are returning to an archaic time when borders were required and checks were stricter, but the big problem coming from our inclusion in the EU nearly fifty years ago is how we now implement checks in areas along the Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland land borders as well as their coastal ports, not to mention the tunnel that now connects England to France which wasn’t a consideration pre-EU inclusion. We have a government trying to step back in time to when we had borders, which means we are once again going to be an island alone who will rely on single country to country trade agreements to prosper instead of a common market where trade is equal. Yes in some cases we will be better, but in the vast amount of cases we will be again at the mercy of much larger and more populated countries who can manufacture quicker, cheaper and in bulk. All I see is us been priced out of the marketplace which will intern create a mass exodus of the foreign investors we already have like Toyota, Nissan, Hitachi, Honda, etc. Brexit was and will always be a millstone around the neck of the UK economy.
Anyway that is all to come post 2020 and we have more to worry about which is what we sadly call a pandemic. Back to the questions from before, how will we be chosen for to receive the vaccine? The basic answer is for now, those being given the jab in the UK are all 80 or over and were chosen by the hospital in various different ways in the two days ahead of the launch. The government has laid out a plan which shows the groups and their priority for receiving the vaccine which is set out on their website. Even though the roll out has begun in some areas it will take well in to the beginning of next year to reach everyone, but there is a warning placed on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which is that people with a history of significant allergic reactions should not have the new COVID jab as it came to light that two NHS workers had allergic reactions to the virus on Tuesday, meanwhile Professor Whitty has stated the most vulnerable of recipients may need the vaccine again in 9 months. So what it sounds like to me is that we have a vaccine and it is been rolled out, but it may cause a severe allergic reaction in a minority and it will only restrict the virus in the most vulnerable for 9 months. I know we need a vaccine quickly, yet to me the one we have sounds like it is possibly dangerous or ineffective in some cases, but that is a risk the government is willing to take. Why not just add a disclaimer, ‘This may or may not save your life, the risk is up to you. We as the government bare no responsibility if you die’. We are nearly eleven months in since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded and the government is still playing ‘Russian Roulette’ with the public’s lives. I will stick to hiding away in my own little bubble where no-one and nothing can breach my defences because I don’t trust Johnson and his cronies on the cabinet one little bit with my safety. To me they are simply cashing their extortionate salaries and hoping they make the right decision, but are not willing to take any blame for the situation we as a nation find ourselves in. They might as well be playing a game of ‘Pin the tail on the Donkey’ for all the good their laws and policies are doing and that goes for the Brexit debacle also.
What we as a global population are facing is the worst death toll of an age where war has not been a factor for the rise in deaths. We are been led to the slaughter by ineptitude and incompetence within elected officials who have no clue of how to lead. They throw policy after policy at the situation or simply try to ignore it. In the United kingdom we have a split leadership who makes decisions then when they find it is unpopular they back track and reverse course on to the next ill-fated decision, while in America you just simply have an administration who has chosen to firstly deny the pandemic as a hoax, then try to lay the blame at the feet of another nation and finally chooses to just ignore it all together hoping it will just simply vanish. How can we as people just accept the way our elected official go about leading us without calling them out for their gross negligence that has created a global death toll of over one million innocent individuals who didn’t have to die if the leaders in charge had shown a backbone quicker by acting on the threat. On that I will call it a day,
Rant you tomorrow!
Back Friday.
