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Showing posts with label 100k virus tests!. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 100k virus tests!. Show all posts

Friday, May 01, 2020

LOCKDOWN CASTELLDEFELS - DAY 47 – Friday, 1st May




JOHNSON SHOULD OFFER AN APOLOGY FOR HIS GOVERNMENT’S HANDLING OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS AND RESIGN.

At least then he will be able to spend more time with his various families – though his children from his last divorced wife apparently fully supported their mother in the divorce proceedings, so perhaps not the warmest of greetings from them.  But, who knows, if he actually spent time with them, quality time, perhaps things would be different?

Here in Spain and Catalonia, people continue to die and continue to be infected with the virus, but all of us are looking forward with varying degrees of confidence and optimism to the next stage in the loosening of the restrictions.
     Tomorrow from 6 -10 am and 8 – 11 pm my age group is allowed out for our first walks in the open streets for the last six weeks and more.  In my case I am looking forward to my first bike ride!  Before the sun goes down, I must make sure that I dust off the pine pollen that now encrusts the bike after its weeks of inactivity, and oil the mechanical bits too – and power up the battery.
     It is yet another level of irony that the throttle that I have ordered and paid for from Mate has still not arrived.  More than a year after it was paid for!  Bugger the lot of them.

Well, it appears that Matt Hancock has reached the 100k figure of tests for the virus, in spite of the unlikely jumps in numbers that were necessary to make that happen.
     It may appear like sour grapes on my part that I find the figures difficult to believe, especially as there have been claims of multiple testing of individuals counted and tests counted that have been sent through the post or merely ordered.  I would like to see an independent audit of the figures, but at the same time what effect would there be?  It is obvious that the Government is much more concerned with getting the narrative for the virus in their favour than anything to do with truth – whatever the Conservative government understands that word to mean.
     Numbers of people tested is not the main point – who, when, where are all just as important.  The total set by Beckett was probably missed, but the total was plucked out of thin air, was not “led by science” and acts more as am illustrative function of a immoral bunch of third-rate politicians than as any thing related to the reality of the crisis itself.
     Undoing the lockdown without mass testing in place is almost meaningless.  Unless contacts are followed up and tested we are going into a sort of fatal free for all.  I fundamentally do not trust the politicians who have lied so extensively and comprehensively from the disaster of the Brexit campaign through the general election and in the Covid-10 crisis.  They have lost any faith that I might have had in their moral position.
     The Cabinet of Brexit fanatics can be summed up by their repeating what they regard as their saving mantra for this crisis: “We were only following the science!”  Any comparison to a saying from the mid 1940s is entirely intentional!  And Professor Joad’s continuingly useful comment, “It all depends on what you mean by . . .” is particularly useful here, when you consider what particular science the government is actually using.  They act as though there is a single scientific ‘truth’ whereas there are always conflicting opinions and a choice has to be made and the politicians must take responsibility for what they choose.
     It is fairly obvious that the government is hoping to deflect some of the justified condemnation on to the scientific advisors when the independent inquiry starts.

Let’s see how early I manage to get up to take my bike ride.  Please let it be fine!

JOHNSON SHOULD RESIGN NOW!