1.
I am glad that the Prime Minister Boris Johnson
is out of Intensive Care and is recuperating.
2.
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson should resign
immediately for his dereliction of duty in wilfully ignoring his own
government’s restrictions for social distancing and becoming infected.
Glad
that I have got that out of my system.
Again. I am still recovering from
a few hagiographical pieces that described Johnson’s visit to hospital in existentially
catastrophic terms, right down to the “indrawn gasp of horror” at the
news. Get real! It tells you something about my low
expectations from the bunch of deadbeats with which Johnson has stuffed the
cabinet that I was actually relieved that the trashy Brexit fanatic Raab turned
out to be the deputy for the incapacitated Johnson rather than somebody (sic)
of the dubious quality of the Goblin Gove, the pernicious Patel or the
unspeakable Rees-Mogg. Just the bunch
you need at a time of crisis!
Talking
of worthless political chancers brings us to the situation here in Spain. Our Prime Minister/President has sent mixed
messages to the population that the lockdown should be extended to the 26th
of this month, but that non-essential workers should return to work on
Tuesday! Masks will be provided for
those using public transport.
Apparently.
The figures for deaths and infections are
still horrifically high and the President thinks that it will be safe – not,
that can’t be true. He thinks that it
will be economically beneficial to open up the economy again. As usual, the poor bloody infantry of the
ordinary citizens can be seen as collateral damage.
OAPs have been told that they, nay, we
will have to isolate ourselves for an unspecified number of months to be
safe.
This cannot be the way to go. Where is the testing that we have been told
about? Our ‘free’ facemasks are
allegedly available from Tuesday. If
nothing is done, then Tuesday is going to be chaos with people doing whatever
they feel like. Any gains that the past
period of lockdown have given us are likely to be swept away by a surge in
fatalities. The logic of the position of
our government is lost on me.
And don’t get me started on the madness of
Trump’s America where demagoguery is equated with scientific fact and
logic. We live in mad times with mad men
dictating the interpretation of events!
Reality will eventually catch up – but what will be the eventual cost in
terms of human lives before the lies are rejected? If they ever are rejected.
What
an Easter! I can’t pretend that the
‘festival’ has ever been something that I have celebrated, apart from my
earlier years of faith when I would go to church for communion.
Here in Catalonia it is very easy to forget
that this is a festival at all, let alone a Christian one. Most of the people I know who might go to
church, don’t. If you see what I
mean. Catalonia is a Roman Catholic
country, but the Catholics are generally of the non-church attending, anti-clerical
sort that doesn’t go out of its way to show adherence to a particular theology.
The only celebration was pounding music
from neighbours on rooftops in a near street.
It was our version of the balcony concerts and musical episodes that
other places had experienced. It was not
really convincing, but I found it quite uplifting it its way.
I
think we are going to need many more uplifting moments in the coming weeks!
