Locally Christmas got cancelled. The mega markets that set up between November and Christmas Eve cannot set up this year for obvious reasons. Personally I'm not entirely bothered, though of course my living isn't contingent on selling weird continental foods that pretend to be sweet but are in fact savoury. Nor do I want to spend hundreds of pounds on bread made from everything but bread. Nor do I want to listen to the same few songs blaring out of a street wide array of loudspeakers over and over.
But I can see how, for some, that's not good news :D
The decision was actually made a month ago, but obviously logistics being what they are that isn't going to get reversed anymore than our useless government is going to get a grip on the crisis.
I also read that a local idiot went to a pub on a bender instead of self isolating after, yawn, returning from a holiday and not self isolating. Why are we still allowing international non essential travel? I hate to again sound massively selfish, but surely this is a bad idea. Even if the clown gets a ten grand fine (which let's be honest is so ridiculous it won't ever get paid) the damage has already been done.
Fortunately no damage was actually done and the pub was contacted and all's well that end'd well. Could have covid been so different though.
I get tired of having to defend stupid people.
And now we are getting sued by the EU. Well, potentially. They have initiated legal proceedings and given clown shoes in charge a month to respond. Do we really think he's going to say sorry and make right? Of course not, this will be another badge of honour for the lunatic fringe who have become convinced that everything the EU does is evil and they are deliberately out to get us. It's not fair, they are such meanies!
I thought we held all the cards? On our way to the sunlit uplands wherein the German car industry will be kowtowing to whatever we want, even though we don't seem to know what that actually is. No, the Tories can't even abide by the deal they bullied their way through Parliament, fought a campaign of dirty tricks to win an election on, and have now broken international law to change, even at the cost of a trade deal with the US and peace in Northern Ireland.
No discussion seems to be happening as to how we're going to procure (or even provide, if we come up with one ourselves) a virus from abroad. What happens if the German car industry comes up with one? We have no treaties in place - and they are pursuing us in the courts! Apparently we don't even have enough containers for the drug if one becomes available.
What do people think is going to happen here? Once we crash out - that's it! Miracles don't happen!
(bonus track: Oh and Trump has Covid. Thoughts and Prayers!)
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