Boris held an emergency meeting (there's a first time for everything I guess) to discuss the new strain of everyone's favourite virus. I can't imagine a day when I haven't used the word Corona or Covid. This meeting was held with ministers. What's the point? He's lazy and isn't interested and the rest of them are either ignorant or ill equipped. About the only ministerial position that would seem relevant would be the Health secretary and that's currently occupied by someone who fakes crying on television - about an old lady receiving half a vaccine (she hasn't yet achieved immunity, his measures may ruin that).
This is where we are. These people are so out of their depth that they are left to splutter about how the UK branch of UNICEF who look after children. Isn't it a bit hypocritical to stand up, in Parliament, and complain that they are merely acting politically. Of course it's political: it should shame a rational decent humanoid into acting so they don't have to. But no, despite resisting doing so, the Tories want to crow about how unfair it is, that their 'record' on caring for those they render into poverty (I have a solutoin) is important and being traduced. All they have is whine. Starving kids is political because starving kids is what politicians like Mogg do.
The other complaint is that, by so acting, UNICEF are taking resources from those that need it. Those would be starving kids. Firstly there should never be a hierarchy of need, if triage is required then it's likely UNICEF has conducted such a process and found that either a) they can afford to feed UK kids as well as whomever the Tories think of as the pleasing face of poverty (probably not white in complexion, and acceptably far away). Or b) that the situation here is that dire that they can afford to spend what they are spending. I've no idea the scale of their resources but I think it ridiculous to criticise a children's charity for caring about children. The only reason this rankles them is that it's hitting a little too close to home. They don't care about the kids, that's obvious, they care about their reputation.
All kids deserve a meal.
In fact all humans deserve the best in life. We have the means and we have the resources. Anyone who denies this is a capitalist. One who hopes to profit from the means to monopolise those resources through some form of violence, and then lobby legislators (their allies, cronies, or themselves directly) into making that legal.
Now here we are, the south east of the country into immediate lockdown, Wales to join them. The rest of us huddled into increasingly fraught tiers. Is there anyway out of this? It's like being stuck in a horrible hall of mirrors; the future reflected back us through the warped lens of an utterly incompetent government. I don't see how Brexit can responsibly be pursued at this point. Isn't the Kent lorry park now in quarantine? If Johnson doesn't ask for an extension, as he should have done (if only for my peace of mind!) at the start of all this, then he seals his fate in my opinion. An utter failure of a man.
What is the way out of this? Vaccine and hope? The lockdown was working; it had successfully bought cases down, and yet something changed. You can see it in the data, a definite downward trend, then back up. Would this have happened if London was not, inexplicably, placed into Tier 2? I guess at this point it doesn't matter as long as the government learns from their mistake. Sadly the only thing history seems to be teaching us right now is that they don't. I feel sad for those in the affected area and I feel frightened because it feels more and more likely we will be joining them, if not before then after the Christmas they won't be getting.
As an aside, dear reader, I am considering doing this as an ad hoc podcast. Recording my thought blurts and then putting them out as amusing audio. If anyone thinks this a good idea and infinitely preferable to reading this rubbish then please let me know :D
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