17,000 cases now. Numbers, they have a habit of rising. They say the majority of cases are coming from educational establishments. In fact there was an outbreak at the university of Bristol: nearly 200 students affected. That isn't chump change. That's kids, possibly out of home for the first time, now stuck. What support will they get? The universities are dependent on the money these kids provide. Capitalism uses them, Covid threatens them. Where is the support? We can't go on like this.
I am starting to feel the pressure now. Winter is clearly on the way and claustrophobia is setting in. It was one thing to lockdown in April and through early summer when the weather was nice. I developed a pleasant routine and could sit in the garden. Now it's wet and slowly getting colder and darker. This is not a good time to need a second lockdown or experience a greater spread of infection. It is threatening and depressing. If people were worried about the mental health of people during the earlier lock down, then they are going to bee even more worried now. I think we are in for a pretty dark period. Not least of all because the unresolved Brexit issue remains. We could be looking at a bleak midwinter indeed.
The Tories have squandered the blood sweat and tears of the nation. NHS staff worked hard and we clapped for them. If only we'd known then that it would have been for nothing insofar as stopping this infection because here we are again, as if nothing has happened. The compulsion to stay at home. The sacrifice, the loss of loved ones in care homes, the damage to education. All of it has been for nothing. It is galling to have to say this. But the Tories - and this is a grim and salutary lesson - are behaving as they always have. Putting private interests first. They cannot speak another language. It has resulted in a second wave. Everything the working class has achieved (NOT the Tories!) has been pissed away by these monsters.
Never forget that, why, nor who. Johnson and his filthy racist, hatemongering cronies (and no amount of xenophobia can cover this) can go to hell.
Oh and Trump doesn't want a virtual debate, now that he's President Patient Zero at the Whitehouse. This is inly because it will be impossible for him to gaslight Biden, hectoring and heckling in order to make him look like the "Sleepy Joe" image he wants to sell his shitty voter base.
Fuck these people. Fuck all of them Into oblivion.
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