Apparently it's not compulsory to mask up on public transport. That was only a temporary thing, for some reason. I'm not entirely sure why since it ended the day the shops opened. Well done.
Unfortunately getting people, now, to wear masks will become impossible. Like so much the government has left too late. People find it alien, understandably, but the response is childish. As we can see in America where people think masks are going to steal their breath and somehow stifle their freedoms. Funny they don't moan during the winter about hats and scarves; pragmatism always swims out. Pandemics, notsomuch.
It appears the government has been engaging in more malevolent incompetence. This time, as Leicester faces a lonely isolated lockdown (good luck making that work), it turns out the government are only making half the picture available. Not all the data is being released, including to local governments having to deal with such outbreaks. At the same time a few northern towns are facing the possibility of isolated clusters appearing.
This is because the twats in government gave the contract to an insurance firm (before it gave the PPE contract to a pest control firm with minimal assets). Said firm were not required to pass on this information. S
This ain't good is it!
The situation in Leicester, to put simply, appears to revolve around places like textile factories who have been engaging in shabby business practices. They've been staying open when workers are present with infections, they have also been accused of fiddling furlough claims; cooking the books.
This is only possible because of capitalism. This whole situation could be and should be managed better, but that is not going to be possible while we are beholden to a vampiric economic model. You could reasonably argue that the government could step in and sort these places out. You'd be correct. Indeed the Tories would like you to believe that capitalism doesn't have to mean exploitation and poor treatment of workers. Except that's rubbish. It absolutely does if business want to remain profitable - and that's what these factory owners will argue. Where we are is precisely where we were always going to be. There's no alternative reality wherein capitalism works out just fine. There's this world and the systems in it. Those systems breed this. People aren't born nasty; they are made that way.
How else do you explain a scumbag like Jeremy Hunt, advocating regular testing for Covid among healthworkers - and then voting against it! You can't so don't even try, it'll only cause a haemorrhage. This is the world we're in right now. Yesterday I was feeling more positive. Today I read that, while Trump sleeps at the wheel tweeting rather than leading, the US has over 40,000 new cases! This is a disaster! Over here our government is in complete disarray: how are we not testing health workers, still!
What else?
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