THE MONTHLY MOSQUITO

The Majority Of Brits Agree That The Decision To Lock Down By Boris Johnson Came Too Late

A preponderance of people in the United Kingdom believes Boris Johnson imposed the coronavirus lockdown too late, while more than a third don’t believe current constraints go far enough.

And there has been a measure of public outrage at the government’s strategy to the crisis with ministers now under pressure to go further to combat the spread of the dangerous virus, and that there should have been a decision to implement a nationwide lockdown earlier than it was.

But despite the time issue, countless people want the government to now go further in the belief that the current measures have fallen short, and that all commercial flights into and out of the United Kingdom should be suspended for the duration of the lockdown.

However, the government is resolute that such a move is not needed because there’s no indication that closing borders or executing a travel embargo would have any impact on the spread of infection, given that it’s already widespread in the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile, people are responsive to the concept of sanctifying NHS staff, backing plans to award frontline workers a special coronavirus medal, and numerous people think the government should acknowledge in some way the efforts of the NHS workers, with many backing a permanent pay rise.

And it’s suggested that the country is braced for a long term disruption and that numerous people believe the lockdown will still be in place at the end of May, with some believing it will be much longer.

Downing Street said lockdown will be examined after three weeks but the direction of travel suggests measures could be kept in place for longer than that, and Boris Johnson has repeatedly stated the situation in the United Kingdom will get worse before it gets better and a preponderance of people agreed with that appraisal.

The nation has said that they expect the situation to worsen before it improves, believing that a majority of the UK population will unavoidably contract coronavirus, with one-fifth of the country believing that they’ve already had the virus and many believing that they have the coronavirus now and that the coronavirus will have a negative impact on their finances.

The country is now apparently divided with the police approach to implementing lockdown, amid criticism of some forces being heavy-handed.

Some people believe that police measures have been about right, but some are saying that there’s not been enough, but some people have stated that the police had been extreme in their use of the powers to break up gatherings and to prevent people making non-essential journeys.

The current crisis further seems to have crippled countless people’s opinion of the Chinese government, with some people saying they believe the Chinese government is dishonestly reporting the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in China where the coronavirus started.

And when Germany and South Korea took it seriously, we here in the United Kingdom did not, thinking it wouldn’t get here, but our government should have stopped flights earlier in hindsight, but better late than never, I guess, and all people in the United Kingdom should be wearing masks if they have no option but to go out.

It was only about a month ago that everyone believed the coronavirus was nowhere nigh as bad as a man cold, but it appears that China has brought the world to its knees by its disgusting cultural practices that caused this to pass from bats to people in Wuhan food markets.

But maybe China played a blinder to take over the world by using this simple biological weapon. They let it kill their own in Wuhan and didn’t seem that worried about it.

They shut down and kept it out of Shanghai and Beijing, and it looks like they’ll be buying up the whole of the world in a few months for a pretty reasonable price, and the biggest blunder Boris Johnson made was to think that moneybags living within the M25 would act responsively and like grown-ups and not party like idiots.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be criticising Boris Johnson because we know where this virus came from and we know who played this down initially and had they not, governments would all have responded differently if China had been honest as far back as November.

Hopefully, all western leaders will learn from their mistakes, but the greatest lesson of all will be to never trust China again, or is this simply the current theme going around, seeking to divert from our own government’s failures?

However, moving swiftly along, where do you think this virus came from? – it certainly didn’t come from Westminster, and how many pandemics has China had in the last 20 years – swine flu, bird flu, SARS and now COVID 19.

Who kept the virus concealed from the world from November and didn’t inform us until January, by which time they’d let millions leave China and contaminate the world.

Who tried to silence the doctor who tried to warn the world, and who has since died? And where is the other lady doctor whistleblower who also spoke out and has since disappeared?

It isn’t the UK government that’s contaminated the world while keeping it hidden – what we should be doing is politicising this disaster that started in China and its abject behaviour.

And now because of this situation, we’re looking at promoting ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ orders for an entire generation of older people who receive care, and this is terrifying, and where will it end?

And I wonder when this is all over what liberties our government will give us back, and we all have to ask ourselves, would we want Boris Johnson’s job at this moment in time? Of course not, but we’re happy to reprimand the choices he’s having to make.

As far as I can see, the government is frantically seeking to manage a novel and unforeseen global pandemic that the entire world was unprepared for.

Our government have tried to deal with a population in the United Kingdom that’s calling for stringent lockdown measures, but a large population in the United Kingdom are actively resisting it.

You only need to listen to people’s comments to see the various extremes in people’s minds, and the lockdown was only enforced because numerous people were making the predicament more acute by actively disregarding all government guidance from the start, and yet people still won’t adhere to it.

But how far can we go with this lockdown? Wear a mask, don’t breathe, hide at home, watch porn till you’re brain dead, request a pass to take a walk, and don’t ask questions. How on earth did we get here?

More than a quarter of Britons have confessed to breaching the government’s coronavirus lockdown rules, as numerous people young and old continue to needlessly wander the countries streets and beauty spots.

The thing is, we’re not in the middle of this virus, we’re at the beginning. The question is, how long will most healthy people put up with this lockdown because it appears this virus is here to stay, and we will have to live with it until someone develops a weapon to regulate it, and its tendency to mutate, and now there are some people out there yelling ‘police state’ over this lockdown.

The thing that bothers me the most and I find the most disheartening, is this continuous government bashing because this isn’t necessary for such a serious situation.

We are following a world curve and no government could prepare efficiently for something that’s never happened before, and unless we want to fully surrender our civil liberties to this, like some draconian countries, mapping their citizen’s movements via apps, we need to stay home and follow the guidelines and stop bashing those whose job it is to support and maintain the situation.

In South Korea visitors are made to buy a sim card and place it in their mobile phone, then they have to self isolate for 2 weeks in a nominated location.

There have been instances where the mobile signal is lost and the police have called on a person having a shower and another was in the kitchen when the police called – everyone wears a face mask – I guess it beats clapping on your doorstep.

The other question you have to ask yourselves, precisely how long is lockdown sustainable for? It’s not a long term solution.

I guess Boris Johnson and the government have responded reasonably well within the limited understanding of this killer virus, but no one knows, even now, and in situations like this, we all rely on the most reliable information at the time.

We can’t all criticise Boris Johnson, but I do agree that NHS staff should have more protective gear and testing appears to be the way forward, and Boris Johnson needs to make as much money available to do this.

It doesn’t matter where they come from, they could come from Timbuktu, as long as we get them, and although the preponderance of people are acting sensibly with this lockdown, there are going to be people out there that are going to scorn the rules because they don’t have the fortitude to wait, and they’ll start believing it won’t happen to them, but of course, this will cause another wave of this fatal virus.

People need to take responsibility too. How many of us started social distancing before we were told to? But what exactly are the government supposed to do? You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink and some people will never take the advice seriously and they’ll scorn all the rules at the cost of others.

Nobody on this planet knows what’s going to happen with this virus, not a soul. Every government has its team of specialists who are leading policy, but this is a new situation and we’re all flying by the seat of our pants.

The government told us to all stay at home, so you can’t blame the government for all the fools in parks and at the seaside treating it like it’s a holiday, spreading the virus – they were all told, what part of staying at home didn’t they understand?

What matters now, is that we need to be reducing the mortality rate, and all NHS workers need to be supported by Boris Johnson. He also needs to get tests done on staff as well at patients so that some of them can be transferred onto a general ward if they test negative and free up ventilation for those who require it.

However, passengers arriving into the United Kingdom are still not having their temperatures taken as a guideline as to whether they’re contaminated with the virus or not.

People are still coming into Heathrow from the USA, Italy and the Far East and Boris Johnson’s only protection is a bottle of hand sanitiser, and if our government aren’t willing to check passengers as they come off the plane, then he should suspend all incoming flights to protect our country.

Allowing flights is ludicrous anyway because you can’t regulate infection if they’re letting people fly in who could have the virus, but we can all be wise after the event, and we’ve never been in this position before – no one could have visualised the pace of this virus as it went worldwide.

This virus has accelerated fast, and no one saw how this would pan out. Five weeks ago, people were partying with their friends, there were no issues, no alarm – now we can’t get anywhere near our friends and family.

And Boris Johnson’s advisers must have forgotten the old saying: ‘Prevention is better than cure’, so this country is now suffering because the so-called advisers didn’t use their common sense, assuming of course, if they possess any at all.

But the government has failed its doctors and nurses badly with inadequate protective clothing, therefore many caught the virus and what was an already overburdened medical staff was decimated by around 30 per cent.

Society needs to understand the situation, and how deadly this virus is. There’s no vaccine, which means there’s no cure or even a drug to hinder its spread, so at the moment the only way it can be contained is through isolation – not isolation of the virus, but the isolation of the population.

The spread needs to be quieted down enough to make the level of the virus and sickness that it causes to be manageable and like the flu, this isn’t ever going to go away, so we simply have to protect our most vulnerable whilst some others manage to build up a resistance against it.

But if there’s one thing that we’ve discovered from this outbreak, it’s just how many incompetents run around at large, and who are in vital parts of our everyday lives.

It’s easy to criticise Boris Johnson or any minister for that matter because we all have to put the onus on someone else, but we’re in uncharted waters, fighting an adversary that we can’t see and who’s aimless on who it strikes.

It’s a bit like the Battle of the Atlantic in WWII with submarines sinking allied ships and seeking to find the Achilles Heel which is the needle in the haystack which must be found.

No doubt people during WWII asked the same questions and wondered what the government were up to, and errors, mistakes and miscalculations were prevalent then and it’s no different today, although today we’re in the information age which gives us more knowledge, and now Boris Johnson has been weighed, measured and been found wanting!

Welsh Surgery Apologises

An NHS health board has apologised after a GP surgery in Wales recommended patients with grave illnesses complete ‘do not resuscitate’ forms in case their health declined after getting coronavirus.

Llynfi surgery, in Maesteg near Port Talbot, wrote to a tiny number of their patients requesting them to complete a (DNACPR) do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation form to ensure emergency assistance would not be called if they got COVID 19 and their well-being declined.

It read: “This is a very difficult letter for the practice to write to you”, noting that people with illnesses such as incurable cancer, motor neurone disease and pulmonary fibrosis were at much greater risk from the virus.

It continued that they would therefore like their patients to complete a DNACPR form for which they could share, which would mean that in the case of swift decline because of the COVID 19 infection or disease progression, the emergency services would not be called and resuscitation endeavours to restart the patient’s heart or breathing would not be attempted.

It claimed that completing a DNACPR would have numerous advantages. Firstly, the GP and more importantly friends and family would know not to call 999. Secondly, limited ambulance resources could be targeted to the young and fit who would have a greater chance of survival.

It continued that the risk of spreading the virus to friends and family and emergency responders from CPR was extremely high, but that having a DNACPR form in place would protect family and emergency responders from the added danger.

The letter said that in an ideal situation doctors would have had this discussion in person with vulnerable patients but had written to them instead due to concerns they’re carrying the virus and were asymptomatic, and said that they wouldn’t abandon their patients but that they needed to be honest and pragmatic.

However, this was not a health board requirement, even though the letter was sent out from the surgery.

The surgery has now been made aware that the letter caused upset to some of the patients who received it, even though the surgery said this was not their intention and apologised for any distress caused and staff at the surgery are now talking to those patients who got the letter and to respond to any concerns.

The letter went viral on social media and one person said a nurse practitioner had recently visited her father, who is getting palliative care, was also requested he sign a DNACPR form.

The number of deaths from the virus in the United Kingdom grew by 393 on Tuesday, the biggest increase since the pandemic started, taking an overall toll to 1,789.

The NHS currently has 8,175 ventilators and has said it requires 30,000 more to deal with an expected peak of COVID 19 patients, while the health service is reportedly endeavouring to expand its intensive care capacity sevenfold amid concerns the full impact of the pandemic could be devastating.

There’s a shortage of personal protective equipment across the NHS despite repeated attempts to provide ambulance crews, GP surgeries and hospitals with the masks, visors, gloves and aprons that help prevent coronavirus transmission and at least three healthcare workers have already died from the virus.

Doctors in the United Kingdom must consult with patients or their families if they choose that resuscitation would not be effective or that complications would result in more pain.

Families can seek a second opinion but the decision is ultimately a medical decision to be made by a doctor.

But this is a national disgrace and a scandal and what it boils down to is that Boris Johnson and the Tory party don’t give a stuff about these people and they never will, and perhaps Matt Hancock would like to demonstrate why he and Boris Johnson aren’t trying to protect these people.

This is sickening, and this government needs to stop and take their head from up their backside. What is going on with our nation that lets old people die without dedication when many of these old people gave this country our freedom.

And quite frankly, what this surgery was doing was implying is that these people should sacrifice themselves to save resources to save people a lot of bother.

So, does anyone else still not believe a culling of the herd wasn’t intended. In Spain, they’re now actually putting anyone over 65 to sleep so that the young get ventilators, yet you’d get arrested for euthanasia.

And what about the Hippocratic Oath, “First do no harm”, well that notion was knackered then, and isn’t against human rights, other people deciding if we live or die, and is the public going to stand for this, or do we accept this like the jews had to in the concentration camps?

All we can call this is a God complex.

The letter read: ” We will not abandon you but we need to be frank and realistic about what the next few months hold for all of us”. They won’t abandon you, but they will forsake you. So, they’re saying they won’t abandon you, but if you get the virus we’re lying and you’re on your own.

If these people wanted a DNACRP they’d already have one in place and the letter should never have gone out. It was ruthless and insensitive and I’m sure that it caused the people who received it a lot of despair and anxiety, and they probably went out of their minds with worry that they might get the virus when they were already vulnerable.

The discussion and it should have only been a discussion if and when someone got infected and it should be addressed with compassion by suitably trained medical doctors.

I thought that disability discrimination was illegal – this is not Nazi Germany and we’re supposed to be a civilised society but thanks to this government’s relentless cuts, they’d sooner push you off a cliff, and the doctors who consented to this should be struck off.

And how long before these decisions are being made all around the country by every practice, and these decisions must be coming from a more powerful source because GPs are not making these decisions on their own.

And I’m sorry, but culling the weak and crushing the vulnerable isn’t a sign of a country that cares for everyone.

This letter said that the intention was not to cause upset, well I think they were way off the mark with that one because no one’s life is more important than another.

The letter that was sent to these vulnerable people only made them feel more vulnerable and insignificant. The fact of the matter is, no matter how old and what condition you’re in, no one wants to die and their loved ones certainly don’t want them to die, and it was an insensitive letter and the elderly that are self-isolating are probably frightened enough without having to deal with some stupid letter popping through their letterbox.

Clearly, this surgery knew when sending out these letters it would cause great distress and it wasn’t the most sympathetic way of dealing with this situation, and it certainly wasn’t the best way to notify patients, particularly when families are all under severe stress.

The feeling we are getting now is that at all costs, not just the elderly or sick are being advised or told not to go to A&E anymore and to either speak to a doctor or dial 111, but then you are relying on someone coming out to get you to the hospital if your symptoms are life-threatening, but will they?

That’s the troubling thing now, and we don’t want to be left guessing or someone saying, sorry we’re very busy and that you’re not classified as a priority call or urgent, and it’s something that none of us wants to speculate about.

Every life matters whatever your age or health conditions, and this letter simply shows how low our country has declined.

Coronavirus: The EU Ventilator System Mix Up

The government said that there was a communications mix-up which meant that they missed the deadline to join an EU scheme to get more ventilators for the coronavirus crisis.

Ministers were further accused of putting Brexit before public well-being when Downing Street said that the United Kingdom had chosen to pursue its own scheme, but now No 10 officials are saying that they didn’t get the emails asking them to participate and now it can’t participate in forthcoming schemes.

And now Labour is demanding to know why the government switched its information, and the party’s Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said that given the enormous demand for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), testing capacity and crucial medical equipment including ventilators, people will want to know why on Monday ministers were saying they had decided other routes over the joint EU procurement initiatives but now they’re claiming that they missed the relevant emails.

Of course, we now need urgent clarification from ministers about how they will get vital equipment to the frontlines as a matter of urgency, and the United Kingdom should be co-operating through international schemes to ensure we get these urgently needed pieces of equipment.

The EU extended its support to the UK and said that we could take part in the procurement project, even though we are no longer a member of the bloc, but Downing Street refused that hand of kindness and said it was because we are no longer members of the EU.

And now our government has said that they’re conducting their own work on ventilators and that they’ve had a pretty strong response from business and that they’ve also procured ventilators from the private sector in the United Kingdom and international companies.

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But Boris Johnson has denied the decision was motivated by Brexit, and he said that this was an area where they wanted to make their efforts – oh, what a saint he is – pity he didn’t ask the people what they wanted!

And now Boris Johnson faces resentment from the opposition, and they’re saying that he’s putting Brexit before breathing.

The UK currently has 8,000 ventilators that are accessible and has placed orders for another 8,000 from existing manufacturers, but there are concerns about capacity in hospitals as the extent of the virus worsens.

Last week, the government put out a request for other British businesses to utilise their facilities to make the equipment and has since signed a contract for 10,000 ventilators with Dyson.

However, these ventilators still need to go through standards checks and wouldn’t be bought and distributed until that happens.

Now Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, and we hope that he recovers, but I’m sure it wouldn’t worry many of us if he couldn’t conduct any of his political responsibilities.

The Tories can all quickly be superseded by another set of equal Tory incompetents, and if Boris Johnson isn’t severely criticised in Parliament over the ventilator embarrassment, then we certainly know that this country has problems that we’ll seemingly never overcome.

And Boris Johnson’s government are continuing to put more lives in danger with their sluggish ordering of ventilators, on top of the thousands of lives they’ve already put at risk due to their lethargy to act, and their failure to protect front line medical, nursing and care workers, and their inability to get behind those serving so selflessly to safeguard society against this virus is beyond belief.

They said they missed the email, curious that, nobody else appears to have missed it and this just shows the disdain the Tories have for us in the United Kingdom.

They couldn’t even be bothered to make up a believable reason, they just rolled out this pitiful pretence of an explanation, but then you can’t blame them when they saw how even the most outrageous deceptions were engulfed by large numbers of people in both the referendum and the General Election.

And once again it’s if ‘I’m all right Jack’, and let’s thank the Tory voters for electing a government that’s cut NHS spending over the last ten years and then again and again.

Thanks to government austerity we have nurses using food banks, but we’ll all praise our nurses now because now we need them, very hypocritical.

It appears that NHS staff who are presenting manifestations are being tested for the virus, just like Boris Johnson was tested when he displayed symptoms, but the common people are not being tested except if they end up in the hospital, and there seems to be no logic or reasoning because everyone should be tested.

I have friends that have symptoms, but they’re just being advised to stay at home and not go out for 14 days, but they’re not being tested, therefore we don’t have reliable data for who is infected with the virus.

And when watching Boris Johnson on video, there appeared to be no sign of a tenacious cough, so could he perhaps be looking for a pity vote? Because the only thing that Boris Johnson is persistent about is lying and leaving his offspring.

Boris Johnson tested pretty early for the coronavirus and evidently, he tested positive. Either he has access to a super-fast test, or he’s telling lies, and we know he’s around a lot of people doing his job as Prime Minister, so he must be tested and given the results promptly, but that testing was super fast.

And why is it that our government perpetually appears to be idle in these kinds of things and only acts when it concerns them directly, and it was a shocking decision by Boris Johnson, the EU held out their hands in the spirit of generosity and Boris declined to accept and opted to turn a vacuum making company instead.

Sadly Boris Johnson isn’t a team player and it seems his arrogance and pride rule his British psyche, and it seems that joining the EU scheme was too embarrassing for Brexiters with their fevered fantasy.

And now we have confusion, inner chaos and shallow reasoning and the Tories are failing the people of the United Kingdom.

All in it together, yes, even the Prime Minister and the heir to the throne can’t escape it, and for them, no expense or resource will be spared, so now we have to pray that we the common people survive.

Should we have confidence in this government, don’t make me laugh. Years of austerity, for what? While the wealthy get richer and are still happy to see nurses having to use food banks while our government gives away billions of pounds each year to overseas aid.

And how did Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock get tested for the virus when they were only displaying mild manifestations, clearly they know the government guidance of self-isolation with no testing if you’re only displaying moderate symptoms, after all, it was the government that wrote the guidelines and now they’re flaunting them in our faces.

It appears that now, so many people are resentful over Brexit, such a pity they’re all in a minority now because now we have a pandemic, nobody cares about Brexit, all they care about is their families and the front line staff who are risking all to make sure you get treated if you get ill with this virus.

But in the end, each countries depth of character will shine through, but what is coming is grave and there’s no way of dodging it, and we could all be in a state of lockdown for months, and anything to do with Brexit will have to go on the back burner for now.

Because this world has encountered countless trials and tribulations, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom et cetera, and all have had long and illustrious histories, and what’s going on now will damage the economies and traumatise its people, and we’re all concerned for our families, however, the world will still turn, the sun will rise, and each countries depth of character will shine through.

But what would a zealous Brexiter do if they ended up having the coronavirus? Would they turn a ventilator down if the EU offered it? Or would they take a Dyson instead? And now, we’re promoting Dyson as some kind of British hero, but what he’s trying to do is make a quick buck at our expense.

I suspect that most people who decided to leave the EU would have a problem with purchasing European goods, they just didn’t want the political mechanism of the EU, and if we can interact with our neighbours without living in their houses, then we can cooperate with Europe without being in their union.

But with a global deficit of ventilators, it looks like Dyson will benefit considerably, but not swiftly enough though because it’s an expensive process to get a medical ventilator approved, and shifting from vacuum cleaners to ventilators can’t be that simple, but I’m convinced he’s up to the task.

Ventilators are complicated devices that use complex software and specialised parts, and companies that endeavour to build them face numerous obstacles, including intellectual property rights, and the demand for specially trained workers, regulatory approvals and safety considerations.

We appear to be demanding untested stand up cordless vacuum cleaners, I mean ventilators because this could be the first ventilator ever to be available in lilac and red, with a pet hair attachment!

Boris Johnson needs some sort of attachment because he can’t seem to get his head in check. First of all, he said that he didn’t want medical equipment because they were from the EU and we weren’t in the EU anymore, then he changed his mind and said they missed the email, well, he proper screwed that one up!

And there’s nothing like getting your priorities right, in this instance, wrong. It’s a government building for Christ sake, everything is organised meticulously, but oddly the email was missed, perhaps they should have gone to SpecSavers.

Two weeks ago Matt Hancock said we were involved in it, but then Boris Johnson said we weren’t as we’re not in the EU anymore, then some hours later blamed it on not checking his inbox.

But there were several meetings about it which the United Kingdom were involved in, so to say it was an email mix up is about as true as Boris jumping in a ditch, and let’s face it, if any cabinet member needed a ventilator, they’d get one even if they didn’t meet the guidelines.

The government should also look at how the coronavirus started and trust that politicians around the world are negotiating something with food processing, which is very important so that we never have to deal with this pandemic again with poor food hygiene.

All this media hype was simply a useful way to evade scrutiny and challenging questions. Prince Charles was supposed to take away media attention, but that was Plan A and that didn’t work. Now there’s Plan B with news on Boris Johnson having tested positive for coronavirus so that people don’t centre on how the pandemic is impacting our country and how poorly it’s being handled by Boris Johnson.

And Dominic Cummings was reportedly seen fleeing out the back door of Downing Street after Boris Johnson was reported as having coronavirus, so now we all know where Bungle and Zippy are, we just need to find George and all those rainbows the kids have been drawing and we’ll be ready to go.

The breaking news on the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary having both been tested positive for coronavirus, what it should have read: Utter stupidity – mind you, that wouldn’t have been breaking news because most of us already knew that.

We’re now expending the coronavirus test so that it’s much more broadly available, all you have to do to qualify for this testing is be heir to the throne, prime minister or a member of the cabinet.

What the government should have done was give funding to existing ventilator manufacturers, and how did Boris Johnson get tested for the virus after presenting mild symptom when we don’t have the lab capacity to test all over 70-year-olds, or is it because they’re just not important enough?

Did the NHS staff leave their hospital posts to go to Downing Street just to test him? And why didn’t he phone 111 to be told to stay home? And the government even admitting they made an error on the ventilators, will deter many who support the Tories from being loyal.

And whilst the government are wasting their time with Dyson, they’re letting an order of 5,000 ventilators and 50 million testing kits slide through their fingers.

So, this is what the UK’s turned into, a clapped out basket case, and now our government are giving excuses about a missing email.

So, now both Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have tested positive for the virus, while mortality in the United Kingdom soars.

The cabinet is going for its own herd immunity while the rest of the country remains on lockdown, with no testing insight to measure what we’ve accomplished, or not accomplished.

And the Tories have been caught telling fibs once again, and right on cue, Boris Johnson gets the virus.

Most viruses fade naturally after a certain amount of time, although a vaccine would simply accelerate its departure, so if no vaccine is found for the prevailing virus it should be entirely gone by about July 2021.

The danger for the world right now is that if the lockdown and restrictions are lifted too quickly in the haste to get back to normal, it might result in the virus coming back for a second wave.

And should we be feeling charitable to our Prime Minister, a man that has jeopardised the supply for all of us by adhering to ideology rather than humanity, and he said the email went missing, that’s just as believable as ‘the dog ate my homework’.

At this rate with Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock having tested for the virus, soon we might see Priti Patel in charge, what a terrifying thought and all these MPs have been working closely with our esteemed leader, so some manner of infection was always possible – didn’t think it would be this kind of virus though.

Dominic Raab, he seems a tad unpredictable, and Chris Grayling having a go at being Prime Minister, well, he’s got no prospect of handling a crisis. Gives you a bit of a fuzzy feeling, doesn’t it, wondering who will be in command now.

So, now Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock test positive – this is getting a tad suspicious? And now countless more in the cabinet might be coming down with the virus?

These are the very people who were experimenting with herding and now they’re self-isolating, but they didn’t lockdown fast enough and exposed the country to the virus, and if it’s going through the cabinet they couldn’t have been following their advice.

This is criminal ineptitude and wilful manipulation of the truth by the Tories which is unbelievable, and how anyone still votes for these nasty little turncoats is beyond comprehension.

But then judging by people’s failure to understand the concept of ‘stay at home’, I’m not shocked because stupid is as stupid does.

The primary message here is that this is Civil Service who missed an urgent email, yet they haven’t been investigated for neglect, but what we are seeing is Boris Johnson and his dimwit cabinet just shrugging it off as if it was an unimportant email from the canteen about their menu, and the pantomime just gets better and better each week.

But there are 3 things we do know about Boris Johnson, he’s a liar, he’s lazy and he’s a liability, and now that we’ve gone into lockdown, it’s a great time for a liar to find an excuse to slip out of the spotlight, with Jeremy Hunt and Javid implying that the whole of the UK is thinking of Boris Johnson.

What, even those who the Tories grabbed benefit from, even those who the Tories inflicted the bedroom tax on, even those who lost their jobs through the Tory austerity measures? Somehow that seems pretty far fetched and I’m sure people have more pressing things to think about than Boris Johnson.

The whole country isn’t thinking about Boris Johnson, although I’m sure his family and friends are concerned, the entire world, of course not. They’re concerned about their own family and friends and those on the frontline caring for our fellow citizens, and let me point out, politicians are not held in higher regard than any other stranger.

And on the news it announced that Boris Johnson was tested, so was he tested before 8 am and if he was, why was he out in Downing Street at 8 pm? And now he has to self isolate, so I’m wondering which rules he disregarded and don’t forget that in the PMQs there were MPs and Ministers sat within a metre of him.

Our political leaders were not distancing themselves from each other and now they’ve been caught with their trousers down because it’s politics before people and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, let’s hope he doesn’t need a ventilator, and let’s hope he doesn’t need to be looked after by nurses without the essential PPE.

But there is a lack of ventilators and someone is going to lose out, whatever arises, and the EU scheme does nothing to address the global deficit of ventilators, all it does is say ‘screw everyone else because we’re taking care of number one’.

The Torie’s ineptitude and lack of willingness are embarrassing and rather than lying about everything, why don’t they just confess that they missed the boat, it was their mistake and that they don’t actually know what they’re doing?

At least we would respect them more if they told the truth, but now that they’ve lied about it, they’re not really fit for office, and seemingly, Boris Johnson stated that he’d had the symptoms for 24 hours, so what was he doing out on the street while the remainder of us were told that if we presented symptoms we were to self isolate.

I consider Boris Johnson as an utterly terrible Prime Minister who relishes hopping on the populist bandwagon, and there’s a lot of people out there that wouldn’t pay to vote for him, but at times like this, we are all fellow human beings and we should be pulling together where this virus is concerned.

At the moment it shouldn’t matter who we voted for, if we chose to Leave or Remain, we’re all in danger of this deadly virus, and it is deadly, it kills people and it really doesn’t care who we voted for.

It takes hostages and it’s relentless who it takes hostage, including all government ministers and the Prime Minister, which makes us no better than each other, we’re all in this together, and when this is all over, whoever is Prime Minister should think about this before stitching everyone up and should come to the table with some compassion.

It doesn’t cost anything to give empathy to people, wealthy or impoverished, and look, all that money the government believed they’d saved by taking it from vulnerable people, well now you’re economy is going to go down the toilet, and now you can’t blame the impoverished, immigrants or people who are out of work – this is a natural disaster, I wonder who the government will blame that on – naughty, naughty Boris, I can see the cogs ticking over there in your head!

Losing Public Goodwill

Boris Johnson has drafted stringent new measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus, including a prohibition on public gatherings of more than two people.

He stated that people should only leave their home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work, where necessary, shop for basic items and fulfil any medical or care needs.

He further ordered the immediate closure of shops selling non-essential goods, but the police have said that they’ve received loads of calls asking what was still allowed.

On Monday evening, 27 million TV viewers watched Boris Johnson tell the nation it was facing a moment of national emergency and that staying at home was required to protect the NHS, save lives and tackle the biggest threat this country has suffered for decades.

Police and local authorities will have the capabilities to disband groups, including through penalties, and the constraints will be under continuous review and relaxation of the rules would be considered in three weeks.

Putting it plainly, if too many people become severely ill at one time, the NHS will not be able to handle it, which means more people are expected to die and not just from the coronavirus but other illnesses as well.

The new rules came following a sunny weekend during which groups of people were seen at beaches, parks, markets and other public places.

The new guidance states people should only leave their homes to shop for essentials such as food and medicine and shopping trips should be as sparse as possible.

People can have one form of exercise a day such as a run, walk or cycle but this should only be done alone or people that you live with.

You can provide care to anyone with a medical need or a vulnerable person. This includes transferring children under the age of 18 between their parent’s homes, where appropriate and you can travel to and from work, but only where it’s necessary and can’t be done from home.

Even when following the above guidance, people should reduce the amount of time spent out of their homes and should keep two metres (6ft) away from people they don’t live with.

The parents of thousands of children are keeping them out of school to try to decrease the spread of the virus and Downing Street said school attendance in England was about 10 per cent on Monday.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said employers should take every conceivable measure to allow for remote working, but added that when people absolutely can’t work from home they can still go to work because it’s important they keep the country running.

The government is also stopping all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, but funerals attended by direct family members are allowed.

Downing Street said the use of penalties, starting at £30, will be targeted at disbanding groups, and failure to pay could lead to criminal actions and a summary conviction and these measures represent some of the most far-reaching restraints on personal freedom ever introduced in the United Kingdom in peacetime.

However, it’s unclear how the rules can be made to work and the first obstacle is getting them on to the statute book, even though the Prime Minister stated the constraints on travel and gatherings would come into effect immediately, even though the police don’t have the powers to implement them yet, nor have they had official direction.

But assuming legal regulations are approved, there’s the practical difficulty of getting crowds to disband and accurately distinguishing people who shouldn’t be on the streets, without losing public goodwill and sparking a rebellion.

However, when these attempts to persuade those who don’t comply have failed, officers will be able to dispense penalties, with prosecutions expected to be the last option, but at a time when officer numbers are increasingly exhausted through illness or self-isolation, forces will be hoping communities do the right thing without the necessity for intervention.

Businesses that will not need to close include supermarkets, petrol stations, post offices, launderettes, bike shops, pet shops, hardware stores and banks.

Michael Gove said that all-important construction work should go ahead but works carried out at close quarters in someone’s home would not be suitable, but critics, including London Mayor Sadiq Khan, challenged his approach and Crossrail and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey halted work. However, competitor Redrow announced its sites have remained open with stringent precautions in place.

The mayor has also warned London Underground passengers that if they don’t stop packing into trains, more people will die, and premises such as libraries, non-essential stores, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship have been ordered to close.

Hotels, hostels, campsites and caravan parks must also close unless key workers need to stay there, or if others staying there can’t get back home.

Parks will remain open for exercise but people are not permitted to congregate in groups.

Golf courses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will close, and in Scotland, golfers have been urged not to play.

Community centres can stay open but only to host quintessential voluntary or public services such as food banks or service for homeless people.

Barristers have been told not to attend Crown Court except if they’re involved in one of the 34 ongoing cases in England and Wales.

On Monday night, the government amended its travel guidance, telling all British people travelling overseas to return to the United Kingdom now. This was because of the rate of new border constraints and those requiring urgent help could call the local UK embassy or high commissioner.

Prisoners in England and Wales will be restricted to their cells for 23 hours a day and let out only to shower and use payphones, with all visits cancelled, it’s conjectured.

More than 83,000 people in the United Kingdom have been tested for coronavirus with 6,710 testing positive. Nevertheless, the actual number of cases will be far higher as tests are primarily done on hospital patients with signs of the virus.

It seems difficult to emphasise how enormous an impact this will have on the people, and what a huge decision this is for the government to have taken, whose effect will last at least for three weeks at the shortest, possibly for very much longer.

Although this is not quite like the kind of total crackdown we have seen in other countries, at least not yet, so not surprisingly, there’s already tremendous debate about whether the United Kingdom has been moving fast enough.

And there have been calls for more information about the guidance, and Lincolnshire Police warned of an extremely large amount of calls and Humberside Chief Constable Lee Freeman said his force had received several calls on the matter, which he said he wasn’t able to answer.

Implementing new constraints is going to be a real challenge, as there’s already huge amounts of sickness amongst officers across London, and the National Police Chief’s Council stated officers wouldn’t be deployed on patrol specifically to police social distancing rules but would still patrol their communities as always.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the measures were the right response but asked for more direction on workplace closures.

Millions of workers have been worried about whether they should be at work, while millions of self-employed and precarious workers were dreading being sent home because it would mean no wages.

And asked in the Commons about help for the UK’s five million self-employed workers, Chancellor Rishi Sunak stated the government was determined to find a way to help them and was looking at the matter in immense detail and speed.

The Prime Minister said he knew the damage the constraints were causing to people’s lives, businesses and jobs and said that countless lives will sadly be lost, despite the measures.

But he added that there was a clear way through by strengthening the NHS with former clinicians returning to work, expediting the search for treatments and a vaccine and buying millions of testing kits.

Sports Direct has confirmed it will not open its stores to the public following a U-turn by the sportswear retailer, and most of Ryanair’s flights are expected to be grounded with no further flights expected in April or May.

Chemicals giant Ineos is to build a hand sanitiser plant near Middlesbrough to produce one million bottles a month, and emergency legislation introducing steps to respond to the virus will go before the House of Lords after it passed through the Commons on Monday evening.

The Olympics, scheduled to start in July, is going to be moved to next year and 514 more people have died in Spain, and Donald Trump has declared that the US will soon be open for trading as more states are shut down.

China announced it had 78 new cases, 74 of them from abroad, nevertheless, Wuhan, the city where the virus began is to lift its lockdown next month, and one of Africa’s most influential musicians, saxophonist Manu Dibango, has died of the virus.

We’re supposed to be in isolation, but with the number of people on beaches last weekend, what does the government think will happen in about a week and a half? And it’s almost always the youngsters that are flaunting the rules of the exclusion.

And those who were the unlucky ones that didn’t make it through the virus and died, supposedly they caught the virus weeks ago, back when the government said it was okay to be in public and go to sporting events.

Is the government under-reporting to us, and would Boris Johnson lie to us?

And is this virus about people suffering, making them beg for a lockdown to make themselves feel tied up and protected by someone, and is this lockdown about ending civil liberties and killing off as many old folk as possible and blaming the virus?

Especially now they need the next of kins permission to count a COVID death as a death, which is a diabolical lie to conceal the actual level of the disease, and one should be suspicious when the UK government are using data protection laws to misrepresent the figures.

And will all these NHS volunteers be tested for coronavirus to stop them from spreading the disease, and if so, how long will that take?

Given that we are in lockdown, is this lockdown working? Because in Spain they’ve been in complete lockdown and the deaths are still climbing, and we should expect it to get more acute because COVID 19 doesn’t recognise borders.

But assuming the data is accurate, the rate of new infections is now going to grow linearly and thanks to the doctors and nurses and others, we can expect to see many new cases to peak and then start to fall gradually.

It’s not safe to go outside unless necessary and people should be following the guidelines with stringency.

As for the information on how many people have got it, how can the government possibly know the rate of infections without testing everyone, and it seems as if our government are playing fast and loose with the lives of people.

This virus has been here in England for a while, but the weather, storms et cetera and how people dressed in gloves, scarves, umbrella’s et cetera reduced the spread.

An umbrella gives social distancing, gloves stop lifts and crossing buttons getting contaminated and wet jackets don’t get used or touched for several days.

So, shopping trolley’s and baskets stayed relatively clean and door handles. The rain prevented people from going out and this is why we and other countries are at different stages.

The weather protected us and gave us time to prepare, but we didn’t.

I was unwell in November till January with a virus. I kept going in to see my doctor and all she said was I had a virus that was going around hugely. That was back in November!

I had a barking cough that went on for months, which I couldn’t get rid of and it eventually eased off in January, so I have no idea whether I had the coronavirus back then or not, or whether I could get it again.

Maybe these storms that we had in England prevented us from spreading it because we didn’t go out as much because of it and ridiculous as it sounds perhaps some of these storms helped save some lives, and if what they’re saying, that the warm weather will slow it down, then we should be thankful.

And you can’t measure whether this lockdown is working by looking at death rates, it has to be measured by the number of new infections, only a drop in these will indicate success or failure.

And people are dying at home because they’re sick and not being tested, so what is a credible source of news and figures? Sadly the current figures don’t indicate actual data and there’s a pretty strong indication that we’re going to be heading for a peak in the next few weeks, which might be delayed for a bit if the lockdown measures work.

The figure will, of course, rise significantly in the coming days or weeks as people are tested, as well as more people catching it of course. Sadly the deaths will also increase significantly, although some will not be affected 2 or 3 weeks down the line if our lockdown has an impact.

This virus has been around since last October, so we’re not doing too bad, even though we’ve had melodrama from the newspapers, and it never ceases to astound me how many armchair scientists come out of the woodwork, knowing more than the people who have worked with these viruses for years.

If you want to know more about COVID 19, then you should read or listen to a qualified Virologist, one that has excellent information which is presented in an extremely calm and communicative way, making it simple for laypeople to follow.

And if anyone is getting agitated, then listen to the person who knows about these things, not social media, and probably not all that’s going on in the news.

It’s far too early to get excited about the fact that the death rate has come down, as it’s only apparently halved in 24 hours. It needs to come down consistently for at least a few weeks before anything can be deducted from this.

Furthermore, we have only just gone into lockdown, and it hasn’t been that wonderful yet with some people being careless regarding staying 2 metres away from each other and only being with one other person.

As regards irresponsible people ignoring the 2-metre rule. There have been police wandering around in groups of 2 or 3, probably no more than a couple of feet apart, and then standing right next to the people they were advising – Have they been given magical powers that ward off the virus?

It takes the virus twelve days to breed, so I don’t think that after four days of isolation it’s suddenly gone away, especially as we’re not in total isolation, with tubes, buses and supermarkets, airports all open. Add people roaming around in parks, carrying on as normal.

Boris Johnson has been accused of letting Brexit ideology dictate his approach to coronavirus after the government declined to take part in an EU plan to procure much needed medical supplies.

European countries have banded together collectively to obtain bulk amounts of ventilators and personal protective equipment, with the first stage now having secured offers of substantial scale on short notice.

The UK was summoned to take part in the scheme, which is leveraging the 500 million people single market, with huge buying power to obtain faster and cheaper orders, with less admin at the time of intense global demand.

But it was confirmed that Britain wouldn’t be taking part in the scheme, after previously having said the government would choose which way to go. So, once again our government has chosen to go it alone, right over a cliff!

We must feel sad for those that have lost loved ones, and they should have complete privacy and that should be respected. Nevertheless, the government shouldn’t be withholding the actual fatality figures – it’s not like they have to give out names, all they have to do is say that another person has died, but no names are to be given out to the public.

By withholding these figures it’s heading dangerously towards dictatorship, and we all know how that ends.

There are masses of people whining about what’s going on, but this country managed throughout WWII and no one sat there thinking about themselves or their mental health conditions, they simply rolled up their sleeves and did what they could to assist others.

We have become a self-indulgent society, not even giving someone else a second thought. We don’t think to pick up the telephone to see how other people are getting on. This is the time that everyone should be supporting each other, even if it’s just a phone call to someone who lives on their own.

Hopefully, Britain will come out of this relatively unscathed, perhaps this is because we’re not a hugging and kissing country when we greet each other. Unlike other countries like Italy and Spain where everyone continuously kisses and hugs one another, making them continually exposed to the virus.

Although we sneeze into our hands, rub them on our pants and then shake hands with people and sit on chairs in cafes, so the Latin style cheek kissing isn’t the only route to contamination.

And in Spain people kiss each other every day, even people they meet on the off chance for two minutes but will likely never see again, that’s their custom, so it’s no wonder why these type of countries are the worst afflicted by the virus.

The difficulty with data and people seemingly having the virus or not having the virus is that not everyone is being tested, so there could never be a true interpretation of the data because there are people out there that have symptoms and are self-isolating but have not been tested to see if they actually have it or not.

Perhaps we should get our tin hats at the ready because at the moment it looks like we’re being manipulated.

There were lots of people that were horribly sick in February, some still have not completely recovered, and it might have been a standing joke at the time, but it’s not a joke now.

And more and more stories have been emerging on how this virus has seemingly been spreading across the country for longer than the authorities were aware, so either they were pig-ignorant or merely careless, but it’s starting to be extremely doubtful that they were unaware, and maybe we’ve not been told the entire truth from the start.

This is what we call a natural disaster, yet the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the air appears to be cleaner because natural disasters are a way of curing the earth of Mankind.

What I would like to know is how many people have survived after having this virus because all we hear about is how many have died, and several milder cases have recovered or are well on there way to recovery, but have not been tracked.

Triple Child Killing

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David McGreavy murdered Elsie Urry’s children, Paul Ralph, four, Dawn, two and nine-month-old Samantha, at their Worcester home in 1973, but Elsie Urry has now been notified of his discharge from prison.

The Ministry of Justice stated that David McGreavy will be on licence for the rest of his life and subject to stringent stipulations and would be subject to exclusion zones following his discharge.

When he got convicted, they said he was going in for life and then they switched it to a minimum of 20 years, but he took three lives, not just one, but three.

David McGreavy was named the ‘Monster of Worcester’, and was 21 and lodging with the family at the time of the killings, and with whom he’d been staying with at the time because he’d fallen out with his parents.

He killed Paul at the home in Gillam Street, Rainbow Hill, while Dawn was discovered with her throat cut. Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull and the bodies of all three children were left impaled on railings.

The chance of David McGreavy’s discharge had been considered for at least 10 years, but a request was rejected in 2016, but in December it was revealed that a Parole Board stated that David McGreavy had changed considerably over the 45 years he’d spent in prison.

Ms Urry was able to put restrictions on David McGreavy that he would be subject to on his discharge from jail, including exclusion zones that would be forced on him, but they were extended somewhat following discussions with Ms Urry.

It might give Ms Urry a little peace of mind that there are exclusion zones but that’s still not right that this man has been freed from prison after what he did, and there are other inmates that haven’t done half as bad as what David McGreavy did to her children and they haven’t been put up for parole, so why him?

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Conservative MP for Worcester Robin Walker has repeatedly written to successive justice ministers and home secretaries opposing David McGreavy’s discharge, and someone who carried out such atrocities should never be let out.

And there might be a strict curfew and tag requirements and the fact that he’s banned from Worcester, still means that it’s very distressing for the family of David McGreavy’s victims.

David McGreavy might have done a long time in prison, and some might have been rehabilitated enough to be released, even if it is on a licence, but sometimes crimes that have been perpetrated are so horrific that may be the perpetrator has to remain behind bars for good and for the overall benefit of society.

This has nothing to do with the fact that David McGreavy was a triple killer because we all know for someone to be able to do that, they must have had one sick mind to take the lives of anyone, let alone babies, and the horrendous way he ended their brief lives.

But the pain still goes on for the mother, and the parole board may believe he’s no longer a threat to society, but he perpetrated three murders in the most grisly way, and all they’re concerned about is essentially tagging him with curfew restrictions, and now he’ll simply calmly enjoy his old age, unlike the children he killed.

The mother will never get any remission because this man murdered her children, so this is a total life sentence for her because David McGreavy should have never been considered for parole and he should never have been freed, and the parole board that released him should serve the remainder of his sentence.

David McGreavy impaled these poor children on fence railings. That is not the mind of a rational man, a person that simply had no regard for human life, and irrespective whether this man has changed or not in jail, a life sentence should actually mean to the end of his natural life for this horrific crime he perpetrated.

David McGreavy might have changed, he might repent what he did, he may be sorry, but the fact remains is that being sorry won’t bring back the lives of those three children, and for him to be able to live with that in his head only goes to show that he’s still a psychopath.

And there are undeniable crimes that are so bad, that life behind bars should mean just that, and David McGreavy fits that category, because letting a man out to cause mental torture to a surviving mother and causing her more pain is simply not right.

This man will now be discreetly reintegrated into an environment where he’ll be able to live a normal life, and he will get loads of free stuff from the system, whilst the mother of the victim suffers again, and it’s all so wrong.

David McGreavy’s atrocities were past the imagination of most of us. This man murdered three small children in such a horrific way and now they’re saying he’s been reformed and he’s safe to roam our streets.

And even if he is reformed and regrets his actions, which is extremely questionable, he still did it and should never have been released back on to the streets.

Not only that, but people are also now going to be afraid, having this kind of person wandering the streets amongst the general public and nobody actually knowing who he is, and that’s a terrifying thought.

We now know what he’s capable of and it’s extremely disturbing, and how can we be expected to trust such a person? Because this is a man that’s evil to the core, as anyone who commits a crime that’s so disturbing that they can never truly be rehabilitated.

This isn’t some psychotic drug trafficker who shot another drug dealer in a turf war. This was a person who was left to care for three small innocent babies, and David McGreavy’s crimes are a horror beyond all measure.

He should not know freedom because that mother shouldn’t have to lay in bed one single night knowing that the monster that brutalised her babies is out there. This man stripped her of her parenthood, and permanently removed her sense of safety and is roaming free, and would the members of the parole board that enabled him to go free, would they allow him to be alone with their children or family?

He should have spent his entire life in prison because those poor children will never get parole, so why should he? He took three lives and should have paid with his own.

Coronavirus Has Left Boris Johnson Haunted

Boris Johnson has been left looking troubled by the rapidly worsening outbreak of coronavirus across the United Kingdom as he realises the choices he makes now will determine his time in office.

The Prime Minister has been criticised for advocating a less vigorous approach to closing outlets and banning large scale events than countries in Europe, with the number of deaths in the United Kingdom that have soared to 35, up 14 in a day, while the number of cases has risen to 1,391.

The Prime Minister has reportedly stressed to his inner circle the need to be seen to be taking action, following last week’s onslaughts of complacency, and one co-worker of the Prime Minister said that they’re not liking this much and that they look haunted because they know the Prime Ministers entire premiership will be determined by the choices they make.

Last week, Boris Johnson gave an astonishingly sobering message to the people, stating he had to level with people that many more loved ones will die as a consequence of the coronavirus.

They reportedly fear a second influx of infections this winter could lead to even more deaths, so are keen to be taking action as public opinion necessitates more action is taken amid fears of an Italy style fallout.

This involves banning crowd gatherings, secretly regarded by decision-makers as a peripheral move.

The Premier League and EFL postponed all football until April last week, while other top sporting events were axed, but this went against the official government advice, which was to let them continue in the face of comparable measures being taken on the continent.

Some people appear to be under the misapprehension that we can prevent it but that boat has sailed globally and what we need to do is moderate and safeguard as many people as possible.

An unnamed Tory MP said the Prime Minister fears the possible backlash in the United Kingdom will claim more lives than elsewhere, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock stated people aged over 70 will be asked in the coming weeks to self-isolate for up to four months, to protect themselves from the virus.

Questioned if that time frame was in the Government’s plan, he stated that was the action plan and that they would be setting it out with more force when it was the right time to do so.

The steps that they’re taking, and the measures that they’re looking at taking will be pretty important and they will disrupt the lives of virtually everyone in the country to tackle the virus.

It has also been confirmed that ministers will be seeking to give police powers to detain and coercively quarantine people who are infected with the virus but are not self-isolating.

And if schools close, what about those children who will be taking their GCSE’s, what will happen to them? And has this been thought out enough or has the government taken into consideration the consequences of cancelling exams and the knock-on effect that will have on them?

Of course, Boris Johnson is doing the right thing. The trouble is, the closing of schools will mean that parents will have to stop work to look after their children.

The thing is, this country should have been closed a long time ago, but our government left the front door wide open for people to fly in and out at will from every country without them being properly monitored, and even now countries are locking down but not the United Kingdom.

Air travel has been our biggest problem because people can come and go as they please without any quarantine, and from now on everyone that comes in and out of a country should be checked.

All it would take at airports would be a temperature check, and if they have a temperature, they should be sent back from where they came from or quarantined, and it would also tell officials from where the infection came from so that it could be nipped in the bud straight away.

The problem is, the only thing that Boris Johnson cares about, is how he will look after all this, and at the moment he’s playing Russian Roulette with people’s lives and he should be shutting everything down like other countries.

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And it appears that Boris Johnson believed this would be his Winston Churchill moment but instead it’s turning out to be his Winnie the Pooh moment.

Institution Of The British Juvenile Offenders

For some of you that have seen the film ‘Scum’, which was an unyielding account of life in a British juvenile offenders institution in the 1970s, the BBC banned this years ago for being too graphic, and yet organisations cloaked people like Jimmy Saville for decades.

This movie brings back memories for some, recollections that they might want to forget. And some didn’t get put in these places for doing wrong, sometimes maturer children would get separated from their families home because parents couldn’t get along.

Some were put in institutions for delinquent boys for years and were reminded every day that they were no good. And imagine being sent to a juvenile facility because you weren’t attending school, imagine having a learning disability and being so ashamed you left school, and for that punishment, the government put you in an institution.

Those kids came out different people, and rarely talked about it, then years later on the stories came out in the media about the abuse at those facilities, horrific stories, and a number of those institutions had bad people looking after those kids.

They also used to put people in those places because they might have run away from home because there was an abusive father in the house, yet the kid was put down as a tearaway. Maybe the system didn’t know any better, either that or they were very sick themselves.

Mind you, the schools back then and before had some right tough nuts and the teachers were pretty much like the wardens in prisons.

But have teachers been too soft since it’s been against the law to slap a child, and now teachers can be arrested for dishing out such discipline, even though some teachers only had that job because they enjoyed being cruel to kids, and many went the extra mile, going too far because they got a thrill out of being cruel?

School, of course, could be harsh with kids bullying and picking on each other, but it’s not any different today, there’s still bullying that goes on, only now, instead of fists, its knives and anything they can find, which usually ends up in deaths, and no one can ever forget that brand of cruelty, which could scar you for life and then makes you realise that it’s a harsh world we live in.

Plus being bullied from a young age could cause permanent mental health difficulties and distrust of people, and countless parents would rather not put their kids through this cruelty in the school system.

After all, who enjoyed a grown man caning your backside when you were a kid? It’s a tad pervy don’t you think? And it was shocking in the 50s and 60s, and many of those cruel teachers, well, I hope they come out in a cold sweat each time there’s an allegation of historic injustice that comes to the fore.

Of course, kids could be wicked but the teachers were the biggest bullies and it was particularly unmerciful, and it was great to see this gem of a film, and maybe it should be shown in schools as a history lesson and how harsh it was because today kids live a charmed life where teachers are concerned.

Although it might not be such a good idea to show a movie where a teenage lad gets violated by 3 others. On the other hand, it might show the kids of today that life isn’t that bad in school now and that it could have been much worse.

And that at some secondary schools there were a few damn cruel teachers and the headmaster and deputy headmaster was so ruthless, sadistic and sarcastic that when he whipped the pupil’s butts they would urinate in embarrassment, and that was for just making a sound in class while the teacher was talking.

Mind you, if any teacher did that to a student these days, the pupil would have beaten them to a pulp.

No wonder these lads came out bigger and worse and also angrier in the real world. Although some of those lads that went to places like Borstal, some did get decent trades in there and did go onto live normal lives, but sadly many didn’t and finished back in the system again and again.

Some of those lads that went down the stupid route and finished up in institutions, some changed their path and ended up on the straight and narrow, perhaps they should bring back National Service? But that’s still no justification for brutality.

Although this snowflake society seems to have ruined people, and maybe these places gave character building? Because the youths of today have got worse since the closing of these institutions, and these offenders are worse now than ever before and the murder rate amongst youths has grown as well as immoral sex and drug behaviour, and perhaps we’re simply mollycoddling our children.

But numerous kids killed themselves in these institutions. My father was in one when he was younger. His father had sent him there for stealing a little bit of money out of his pocket.

I remember my father telling me about it. He told me that a kid in there couldn’t hack it and slit his wrists and my dad attempted to stop the blood by ripping up a bedsheet to make it into a tourniquet. The kid lived but these places were crap holes and the wardens that worked them were arseholes.

You have to take your hat off to these people that done there time in these institutions because the kids of today just don’t listen, and not only don’t they have respect for the world around them, but they don’t have any respect for their parents either and these little gangsters going around shanking and bashing people in their gangs have no concept of how easy they’ve got it these days.

Now instead of the adults treating these kids like animals, it’s the kids treating the adults like animals like praying mantis.

Institutions like this, you learnt a lot and you learnt how to survive because you had no other option. And these wardens were tormentors who relished beating the kids, they got a thrill out of it, and they just tyrannised these kids until they’d had enough.

But these kids of today are out there, with kids of their own, pandering to a life of weakness, learning nothing of respect, but in these institutions you had to learn respect, you had to learn to be clean and tidy and to respect your elders, and it was arduous.

Now the system has softened up and inmates take more liberties, and these institutions for young kids back then, well I bet they wish the system was as soft then as it is now.

The wardens then used to tell you to stand to attention, then twist your nipples between their finger and thumb and God help you if you lifted your hand to stop the warden doing what the perverted rat wanted to do.

They would get you in a wristlock, make you stand on tiptoes, then boot your feet from under you and you would land on the back of your spine and couldn’t walk properly.

Other lads were so severely beaten that some ended up in the infirmary, and then the wardens would put them on light duties for the rest of their stay for keeping their mouth shut.

Of course, you had sex perverts at these places and if you were a big kid they wouldn’t pick on you, they just picked on the frightened small quiet boys, no wonder the suicide rate was somewhat high.

There was square bashing in the rain, running barefoot on the exercise field, shovelling coal from one side of the parade ground and then when they went to tell the officer that they’d moved it, he would tell you to move it back to where you’d moved it from.

It was good training if you wanted to go into the Army, but a complete negative waste of time otherwise, and it was an extremely sad experience for those young men to have to endure and perhaps the authorities should have been held accountable for their immoral actions.

Riots in these institutions were settled in one of two ways, either someone from the Home Office attended the institution in question to discuss the events with the governor and a representative inmate to hopefully work out a resolution or the institution’s governor could just call in the Riot Squad or the Army.

The Riot Squad or Army suppressed the uprising and the majority of inmates were locked up in their cells or dormitories, and those who were seen to be the instigators or troublemakers, they were dragged off by the wardens for a good kicking, somewhere out of sight before being tossed into solitary.

Of course, there were some truly committed people out there, but when you watch the film it does strike a nerve because some Private schools were like this as well, well, let’s say, they weren’t much better than these institutions.

The purpose of the cane was to beat you until you would vomit, and if you went whining to your parents, the punishment was even harder, and to think these parents spent thousands to send their children to private school.

Some of these kids were targetted by violent teachers, wardens, well, almost anyone with some authority. The punishment was harsh and no wonder some of these kids left school early to get away, and the psychiatric doctors and nurses were the most sadistic of all.

The wardens were a shower of rats who would set you up and give you a thrashing as quickly as taking a breath, and one could not forget these kids were severely spanked by a teacher simply because a kid said they didn’t understand.

Pupils are encouraged to speak up now if they’re not sure what’s being taught to them, but back then, you got spanked, and all that taught was that you would get punished if you weren’t sure on what was being taught.

Nowadays kids are being encouraged to talk up if in doubt, but being beaten for not understanding back then affected a kids development in understanding knowledge, and it’s not until they became adults, they found that the way that they were taught was totally and utterly wrong, and I wonder if Jimmy Saville had a few keys for places like that.

This might be one of the most honest and saddest movies you’ll ever see. There were a lot of people that didn’t like watching it, but I believe that was the intention so that it would frighten the crap out of you, and I don’t suppose we’ll ever see another film made like this again.

These were the good old days when punishment meant punishment, those days have well and truly gone, it’s all spice heads now and complete chaos, and thank God they outlawed all those places that were run by psychopaths and what a nightmarish bunch of heels they were.

It was extreme violence from the start because back in the day, that’s how they taught the meaning of respect. After all, it was thought that the more you beat the kids, the taller they stood, and how the world has changed.

And these institutions were run pretty much on military lines and indeed some schools at that time used the same policies but it appears that nobody has found the right way to maintain discipline, educate or support these people that are put away by society.

Those wardens needed stringing up because most were nefarious and corrupt and worse than most of the cons and inmates and this film demonstrates quite clearly the contempt the establishment had for its people here in the United Kingdom.

And there were schools back in the day that had teachers that were unmerciful and who thought they were above their stations and got off from being sadistic and who were obvious losers in real life, hence the bullying of kids.

Can you imagine today’s generation in these institutions?

Detention Centres back in the day was what succeeded borstal and that was also violent and your six sense was the main one that you used as would be gangsters in small clicks slashed your face off just to earn a rep and some of the wardens were animals, constantly slapping the crap out of you and they had you marching around everywhere like you were in the army.

Bed block, kit and room inspection every morning and if you never had a job you couldn’t just lie on your bed during the day and in some places, smoking was banned but the offenders would always get it from other cons on another wing at a cost.

The only upside was the food wasn’t that bad and they came out much fitter than when they went in and unquestionably wiser, although I’m sure many came out with emotional and anger issues that developed because of the torture they suffered.

Power corrupts and these places were run on minimum salary, unschooled, unchecked thugs who enjoyed abusing kids and it was an out of control spiral of violence and it was designed to teach these kids a lesson.

There were bullies and kids were battered stupid and they had to fight back and most went on to commit further crimes because it was survival of the fittest and total insanity, and it was there to put the fear of God into these kids, but then the world is run on fear.

Boris, Shaken But Not Stirred

Boris Johnson has no idea what to do when it comes to the Coronavirus and he’s scratching his head and his butt, not knowing what to do, and he unquestionably hasn’t shaken any hand of someone with Coronavirus, even though he kind of made out that he did.

If he’s to keep this virus from spreading any further, then he should be handing out masks to everyone in the United Kingdom free of charge and he should be opening up abandoned aircraft hangers that are no longer in use and making them into temporary infirmaries.

There are countless military doctors and nurses on the ground that could be utilised, and just because the milder weather will be on its way shortly does not guarantee that the Coronavirus will wither away.

Masks are the way to go and the government needs to be giving them out, and even though this is a new illness, it’s not known precisely how Coronavirus spreads from person to person. Still, similar viruses are spread in cough droplets.

It’s extremely doubtful it can be spread through things like packages or food but just in case, gloves should be handed out as well free of charge.

It’s going to cost the government millions of pounds but does that matter when people are dying?

The people in this country have to do their bit by scrubbing their hands with soap and water regularly.

Always wash your hands when you get home or into work, and use sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available.

You would have noticed that people have been bulk buying sanitizer. The government should be giving this out free as well, as well as tissues, and if people have to stay indoors because they’re sick, the government should make sure that they’re guaranteed sick pay.

Sadly, no one knows for sure whether or not the more temperate weather will curb the Coronavirus.

Viruses that cause influenza or milder Coronavirus, and there are seven in total that affects humans, some much less concerning than others which usually wane in warmer months, although people spend less time inside in the warmer weather, which means that viruses could circulate more easily.

However, because SARS-CoV-2 is so new, there’s no way to say for sure whether the virus will undergo the same seasonality as other viruses.

There’s one main difference between the novel Coronavirus and the flu, immunity. Because many of us have built up an immunity to the flu, this isn’t the situation with this new illness.

And we won’t be off the hook just because we’re getting to springtime and the warmer weather, although I’m sure that spring will be greatly embraced this year, we unquestionably shouldn’t be letting our guard down just because it will be warming up outside.

And everyone should still follow the preventative steps suggested.

There’s another potential way Coronavirus can spread between people and that’s by faecal transmission, and according to recent research from the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), those with confirmed cases of the novel Coronavirus have live virus in stool specimens, suggesting there’s a possible faecal-oral route for the virus, as well.

Unfortunately, the only way to know if someone has COVID-19 is to test them, that’s because the manifestations of the illness look remarkably similar to that of the common cold or flu with a cough, fever and body aches.

And it’s important to know that not everyone who’s infected with Coronavirus exhibits symptoms, which suggests that they’re asymptomatic carriers who carry it around with them, spreading it to other people, but never falling ill themselves.

While scientists are currently working on a Coronavirus vaccine, it probably won’t be available in time to fight the current outbreak because there has to be an entire vaccine process, from early development through to human testing, which takes time and costs lots of money.

Fortunately, when coming up with a vaccine for the current Coronavirus, researchers may uncover clues that may help treat or even prevent future outbreaks, but of course, by that time there will be another kind of virus that has mutated, of which they won’t have a vaccine.

Bedroom Tax Domestic Violence Discrimination Ruling Is Final

The Department for Work and Pensions attempted to overthrow a decision that the hated Bedroom Tax prejudges against sufferers of domestic brutality, which was rejected, and judges at the European Court of Human Rights ordered in October that the benefit cut, discriminated against a domestic violence victim who was forced to pay additional money for her panic room.

Following a six-year legal battle, the UK government was ordered to pay the woman, who suffered rape and assault, 10,000 Euros (£8,600) for the damage she sustained, but lawyers for the Department for Work and Pensions demanded the matter be heard in the court’s Grand Chamber, attempting to overthrow the judgment, but the request was denied, meaning the ruling stands and is irrevocable.

The victim’s legal team are now asking for the government to make adjustments to the law immediately, and they say that around 300 more victims of domestic violence are in the same position and that a woman, related to as ‘A’, is a victim of rape, assault and harassment at the hands of an ex-partner.

The DWP cut her housing benefit by 14 per cent for under occupation of her social housing and the department determined she and her 11-year-old son only required two bedrooms, despite a third bedroom in the home being specially modified by police to include a panic room as part of a sanctuary scheme.

An investigation by the legal team representing ‘A’ found almost 1 in 20 households using the Sanctuary Scheme for people at risk of severe domestic violence have been hit by the bedroom tax, amounting to 281 homes across the country and that the vast preponderance of people in the Sanctuary Scheme are women, yet a DWP spokesperson stated that they were carefully considering the court’s ruling.

This woman, whose life is in danger, has suffered great distress as a result of the bedroom tax and the uncertainty about this case.

She’s a vulnerable single parent who’s been a victim of rape and assault and lives in a property which has been specially adapted by the police, at great cost, to protect her and her child and she’s had to fight the UK Government for seven years to defend her right to be protected in her own home.

And she’s pleased that following such a lengthy battle, the European Court of Human Rights has recognised the impact that the bedroom tax is having on her and others like her.

We now call on the UK Government to take speedy action and to modify the rules to exempt from the bedroom tax the small but extremely vulnerable group of women and children who need the safety of a sanctuary scheme whilst they try to reassemble their lives after surviving domestic violence.

And the Domestic Abuse Bill, currently making its way through Parliament, is the obvious route to right this injustice and protect ‘A’ and others in Sanctuary Scheme homes.

Remember Iain Duncan Smith, he laughed at the terror he was causing a rape victim by using the Bedroom tax to make it too costly for her to keep a panic room because he thrived on browbeating others.

And he used the Department for Work and Pensions to convince a court that she had to pay the Bedroom Tax on a panic room installed in her home to stop further attacks against her.

As a result of the ruling, she was evicted from her home and Iain Duncan Smith laughed with delight when he learned of the news, and the fact that Iain Duncan Smith appealed against the decision simply proves what a cruel, ruthless and wicked individual he is.

Only Iain Duncan Smith and the fellow Nazi mutts would laugh at the plight of a rape victim, and this was another disgusting justification for his entertainment and the brutal, psychopathic policies of the government over the recent years were well represented in Iain Duncan Smith.

Hatred engenders hatred, it further feeds violence, and what a despicable person he is, his family must be so proud of him and I’m amazed that given his rather feeble intelligence he managed to become a government minister in the first place.

Poverty Not Only Inflicts Suffering

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Millions of children are living in poverty in the United Kingdom and this marks the 20th anniversary of Labour’s promise to eradicate child hunger.

Much progress was made under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown but that good work was destroyed by the Conservatives, and there have been debates about how you measure child hunger, but the metric used by most charities shows 4.1 million children are living below the breadline.

And the number is estimated to soar to as high as 5.2 million within the next three years as Tory welfare cuts continue to bite, and the two-child benefit cap alone could force another 300,000 children into poverty by 2023-24.

The Conservatives have long contended that work is the best route out of deprivation. The dilemma is that it’s not proving to be the case, and it’s estimated that 70 per cent of children found to be in poverty are in working homes.

And behind every statistic is a story of a child going hungry at school or living in crowded and inadequate accommodation or unable to keep warm because there’s no money for a winter coat.

The most disheartening aspect is not just that the most disadvantaged have paid the highest price for a decade of austerity but that in doing so the government have failed a generation of children who have so much to contribute.

Because if you’re going hungry or continually being moved from one temporary accommodation to another, then it affects the child’s education, and if that child is sharing a cramped room with their siblings, then it’s more difficult for them to do their homework.

Impoverished families can’t afford things which others take for granted such as music lessons or school excursions that can improve a child’s development, and talent and potential are going untapped because of want and deprivation.

And if our Government is serious about levelling up, it could start with levelling up the incomes of the most affected in this country in the impending Budget, and the Government should all be behind eradicating poverty – the trouble is, Boris Johnson always appears to be absent while blaming everyone else.

There are numerous people out there that suffer from extreme poverty, not the nonsense Ipad poverty people and the government attempt to stuff down our gullets, but the poverty of yesteryear. However, we do have a sense of responsibility to get ourselves off the plantation.

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