The world has gone mad. A Prime Minister has to deny whether he was at a drinks party at 10 Downing Street during lockdown (whether it was illegal under the rules and regulations is neither here nor there.) Meanwhile, the Russian President, Putin, has sent troops to the border with Ukraine and is threatening to invade. There is an American President who doesn't seem entirely with it, looking for all the world as if he's in the early stage of dementia. If you thought Regan was unfit to hold office as President of the most powerful country in the known world, Joe Biden seems not to be exactly 100% with it, mentally and physically. No wonder Putin thought he could get away with invading Ukraine when the West was looking in the opposite direction. It all seems like the plot of some sort of comedy, but actually, it's not particularly funny when we now learn that Putin is possibly intending to use chemical weapons and even nuclear weapons. Possibly in an attempt to draw the West into a war that will have consequences which it's difficult to comprehend. Jim Hacker, the Prime Minister in the BBC sitcom 'Yes Prime Minister', might have had problems with our current situation and Sir Humphrey Appleby would have delighted in explaining the situation in his long, convoluted diatribes, tying everyone, including himself,
Is the pandemic over? It's difficult to say. The crazy rules and regulations have been removed. We don't need to social distance or wear face coverings. There are still people who wear masks, usually when I'm outside. I want to ask why? If you're out in the fresh air and there's no one else around, why bother with a face mask? Nasty things. There's no proof they actually work. Having one on for any length of time makes me ill. Breathing in your own breath isn't good for you. There is now virtually nothing about the virus on television news. The BBC hasn't had a report on anything to do with the pandemic in weeks, or so it seems. They are more concerned about the Ukrainian war. Peddling fear and anxiety. The pandemic seems to have melted into the background.
Why didn't The West realize earlier what Putin was planning to do? Would our intelligence services have picked up some hint of things going on in Russia? Don't we have some sort of system which monitors the goings-on in Russia and other countries which can be thought of a threat to democracy? Were we too focussed on the pandemic? I think only time will tell and probably when more comes to light as the years pass.
Then, on top of the pandemic to make us feel frightened, we have climate change. The scientists are making us feel guilty if we eat meat, drive a car, light our log burner and generally produce carbon and let it into the atmosphere. This thing about cattle and other herbivores we may eat producing gasses that are supposed to deplete the ozone layer is rather lazy. They aren't the only animals that create these gasses. How about the herds of animals that roam the African savannah? Antelopes? Elephants? What about HUMANS? Don't we create these gasses? It's all a bit dumb if you ask me? (but please don't.)
Then there's the hypocrisy of these scientists, politicians and others who went to the COP 26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow last October and travelled there by plane, car and other forms of transport which give off large amounts of carbon.
Friday. 8.45 a.m. It's exactly two years since the WHO (World Health Organisation.) announced that we were in a pandemic, due to the coronavirus. Seems like we've lost two years of our lives, hiding away, being ordered about by people who had no real authority (ie; unelected scientists.), making people frightened, destroying businesses, causing disruption to children's eduction, cancelling NHS appointments, people going without their cancer treatment, mental health going through the room, relationships being destroyed. I could go on, but I won't. Was it really worth it? It 'save the NHS from being overwhelmed,'? Probably not.
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