18 September - Rebellion or financial Armageddon. Which will it be?
The country seems to be divided in two, the incredulous becoming ever more
annoyed with the incompetence of government and a smaller number who are paranoid
about Coronaviruses. I met my oldest
friend a few days ago, oldest only in the sense that I was five years old and
she was three when we first met and took up positions at opposite ends of her garden.
As must be apparent by now I am in the ‘life must go carefully on’ category and
cannot quite get my head around how incompetent government can be. Who in hell
appoints Dodo Harding to be in charge of anything? She earned her deserved
reputation as Chief Executive of the worst ISP in the country and nepotism did the rest.
A friend who owns my chosen ISP and has done successfully for twenty odd years relies
on buying in connectivity from bigger players. I have several times been told
that TalkTalk is absolute barge pole territory.
Then there is Professor Neil Ferguson. Why is the Prime Minister still acting on
the predictions of someone who did not cover himself with glory over Foot and
Mouth Disease in 2001 or the various influenzas that followed?
Remember how we were all going to die of vCJD; variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease? The human
form of mad cow disease. The people who got that so hopelessly wrong now advise
Bozo on Coronaviruses. Hasn’t the man got a brain of his own?
Why is the Prime Minister listening to a host of discredited people?
As a result he has wrecked the National Health Service which is now not much
more than a Covid only service. I have had two cancer related appointments cancelled, one
in March and one last week. My childhood eczema has returned presumably due to too much
hand washing and nothing can be done about it. All minor stuff compared to some but
disgraceful nevertheless.
Then there is the economy.
Stay at home, get back to work, stay at home. Which is it today? If
working at home is good and effective why are the telephone waiting times for banks and insurance
companies so long? I had to phone both yesterday following fraudulent use of my
credit card. Saga had a data breach apparently, they kept that quiet didn’t they?
Working at home doesn’t work in all sorts of ways. My son recently took part in
a Zoom call with participants stretching from California to Japan. Government
regulatory business. It didn’t achieve much, the real business is usually done
in the bogs and the coffee shop.
If I was a bit younger I would probably be joining the various freedom marches
due soon. The sense of rebellion is on the rise and I don’t see Boris Johnson as
Prime Minister material. Actually I never did.
Note: vCJD, the type of CJD linked to mad cow disease BSE kills
on average five people a year in the UK. I knew one of those five, lady friend’s brother. I do not know
anyone who has died of Coronavirus if I don’t count the suicide caused by the lockdown.