2 June (Part 1) - Covidiots everywhere
If I allow these meanderings to wander around the Corona virus I can be sure
of two things, I will lose Twitter followers and receive a handful of emails
questioning my intellect. It provides a bit of relief to the misery of obeying
the lockdown rules and what goes on in Newham so let’s do it again.
Without doing an exhaustive check I think my main criticism of this government
has been that its rules and regulations are stupidly inconsistent. You can go to IKEA
but you can’t go to church, that sort of thing. You can gather in large numbers
to protest against police brutality without the law stepping in but you are
handcuffed if you are an ambulance driver standing outside your own flat minding
your own business. (The assumption was that a black man standing around waiting
for nothing in particular must be a drug dealer.)
I have come to accept that the police are rarely intelligent
and sometimes thuggish but it is disappointing to note from the daily Press Briefings
that the Cabinet can be less than intelligent too, possibly on a par with the average bus
queue and more than likely less honest.
The intelligence and honesty of the press must also be called into question.
They vilify a government advisor who seems to have panicked over the health of his
son and probably stretched the lockdown rules to breaking point but are not much worried by the
MP for Canterbury who takes similar journeys to see, and maybe see to, her married lover.
I’m inclined to think the government began to come to its senses when it relaxed the lockdown
rules and ignored the medics who say otherwise while living in their own little bubble. If
they had their way we would all lock ourselves in the lavatory until a vaccine
is found, and maybe it never will be.
Politicians must take a more balanced view
and consider how to get business and commerce up and running again. A big
disincentive must be the incredibly generous furlough scheme. The sort of thicko who takes his
children to a crowded beach but thinks school is far too risky is never going to
want to work while he is on full pay, or close, and stop being the layabout he is.
Balanced political views seem to be in short supply; I’m told mine definitely
aren’t, but any Government that makes so called
intimate relations between consenting adults a criminal offence simply doesn’t
deserve to exist. Good God, how is the Prime Minister going to find his next bit
of skirt if that law is enacted?
I suspect that is enough to ensure a few more abusive emails so no need to go
on. Back to dubious financial decisions next.