Today's misery tally is a new low, in that it is a new high. Over 6000 confirmed cases. The real number will of course be higher because of asymptomatic cases and others that simply slip the net, so to speak.
There's really no need to beat around the bush here. I slept poorly last night. Johnson's pathetic speech demonstrates a hopelessly out of touch government whom, I fear, simply aren't going to get it. The scientists, you can tell, are screaming at them: this isn't good enough. It isn't.
There will have to be a second lockdown. This time it will be ugly. Not just because of the antivaxxer/denialist crowd. But simply because the government has crassly and flagrantly squandered any good will generated from people complying with the first lockdown. To have to go through that again will be devastating. At the very least a good start has to be shutting down bars and pubs. But that doesn't appear to be happening. Instead there's a 10pm curfew which is self evidently futile. It will just cause more people to congregate in bars simultaneously, besides how will it be enforced?
This is horrendous. I feel sick. I shouldn't. These measures are lightweight, and we all knoew this wasn't going away before Christmas - another platitude plucked from the air by the twat in charge.
They have categorically and comprehensively failed. There is no other word for it. At the very least Starmer must call for a vote of no confidence though given the Tory majority he will almost certainly lose. This situation is untenable. The case rate will continue to rise, I cannot se otherwise.
I am, and we should be, furious. This isn't just typical Tory incompetence, that would be bad enough. It is an abject dereliction of duty by people utterly inept. Their response is bluster, their systems are failing, their leadership corrupt and hopeless. Baroness Harding is still in charge. It is still inadequate.
In Spring, people clapped for the NHS. Kids put up rainbows and other pictures showing gratitude. But for what? To go through that all again? How will those kids feel having to do it again? I do not see how schools can remain open when they are another obvious community vector.
This is a total disaster. It should finish the Tories. It must.
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