The Road To Spring 1: We've Come So Far

And I looked and beheld the Guardian and it did fucking read: Jared Kushner, Kraftwerk showroom dummy, landowning billionaire scum and son in law to twice impeached wig enthusiast, Donald Trump, is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. So that's another worthless award we can discard. State power wins the day, again.

Johnson says we will be living with Covid for a while to come. Well that's rather obvious isn't it. Even with a rolled out vaccine, it's impact globally will mean we at the very least must restrict travel. But before and during this mass vaccination roll out there will still be outbreaks (assuming even the vaccine halts transmission, hopefully it does I honestly don't know). As long as it's out there, it remains an existential threat. No matter where in the world, and given how the poorer nations are being screwed over and trampled under the foot rush to vaccination, it will be in the world a long time. It didn't have to be that way.

Of course one of the many things Johnson and his headbangers could have done, but didn't, would have been to postpone (a charitable way of saying cancel) Brexit. No sane person would have disagreed, although that begs the question as regards the deluded nature of said headbangers. The desperate reality is that, in order to facilitate their gung ho economic disaster, they have to also push the anti-lockdown/covid denial narrative because otherwise how can they justify pursuing Brexit at this time. If they believe covid as serious a threat as all of science then they cannot put a priority on Brexit. 

That says it all regarding these people; they are ideologues hell bent on driving us off a cliff because they, and unfortunately they alone, stand to benefit from this. The rest of us stand to lose, as I discovered yesterday at the increased veg pricing in the shops. A considerable price hike which can only get worse as the situation bites. It's not going to let go either; these aren't teething problems, they are the direct consequence of deliberately putting barriers up to trade that was previously smooth. Now it isn't. For what?

It is the start of February, let us hope this is the final straight. Despite this South African variant, which I believe shouldn't be a problem if we're all obeying the lockdown, we have gotten the deaths and the infection rates now to less than 20 thousand. We have sacrificed so much. People have died and others have been stretched to breaking, through no fault of our own. Yet we have achieved much, as a community. All in spite of, against, in act, this dreadful government. That must not be squandered. It must motivate us to fight for what we have and not let those bastards take it to pay for their shattered system and their inexcusable mismanagement of this crisis.