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!
