There ARE no facts any more. Medical professionals are only “speculating”, those not academic experts in any field are “conspiracy theorists” if they comment at all outisde their area of official “expertise”, and politicians who’s job it is to just get things done - constantly lie to us why this wasn’t done, that was done “wrong”, and why it’s nobody’s fault but the voter - that we’re in the crapper all the time.
We’re made to regret voting for whatever government won the last election, made to regret throwing the wrong public figures under the bus, made to regret voting Leave, made to regret pushing back anywhere, at any time.
The current responses, world-wide - are to seemingly to prevent majority governments continuing, because divided democracies are heaven for totalitarian superpowers.
Is there anyone who thinks America isn’t near it’s Nadir as a world class nation, rather than at it’s all time best?
Trump might have won an election on that nostalgic hope - but America is no nearer to it’s 60’s heydey now than it was five years ago under terrorist-appeasing Obama - is it?
If it DOES become so - then Trump will have no problem redding-out the American electoral map come November, and the “Opposition” were merely an over-blown over-counted number of nasty democrat voters all along.
Boris? - He hasn’t got Brexit done yet - as far as I’m concerned. We’re still paying money to the EU, and respecting it’s institutions rather than ripping the guts out of them with a massive de-funding exercise that seems no nearer completion than it was before ■■■■■■■■ got involved. I wonder if the Covid “aim” is to find an excuse - an excuse that lets Boris stay on as PM - to “kick the can one more time” come the end of this year.
I’ll believe Brexit is truly done - once the EU is disbanded. Instead meanwhile, they’ve got their budget through, so we’re told… Who’s paying for that again?
Low risk takers - are now holding this entire country back from the brink of success… Covid is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Like the “War on Terror” - it has no end.
Covid will be as easy to eradicate as the Common Cold, as it is a Virus, but so many people now refuse to return to former lives - because the risk is too high for them to take, perceived or otherwise.
Once this deflationary slump gets going - it’ll be worse than the 1930’s because we don’t have an actual Hitler in the world to tool-up and team-up against THIS time around.
Each business that closes down simply because “it’s trade has gone” - lays more workers off, that have less money to spend on some other business that also fails a result… Chain reaction.
Eventually we will be faced as a nation with the same thing I was faced with back in April:
Do we starve in order to pay our debts, or do we clear the slate, and start again, living within our means this time around?
Totally useless the latter for government - as when a government wins an election, it will inherit a trade deficit so large that IF that debt isn’t defaulted meanwhile, and “Sorry, there’s no money to spend. Government Disbanded!”
We need to wean ourselves off DEBT smartish, because far from uphold the economy for a little while, eventually cash becomes king, as it became in the 1930’s.
Buying Gold?
Wasn’t it Roosevelt’s Democrat government who passed laws making it ILLEGAL to own Gold, and forcing people to sell it to the government @ $34 per ounce, ruining those few canny people left who’d successfully weathered the downturn up until that point…
Meanwhile in Europe - anyone who had “successfully weathered the downturn” on the mainland - ended up either at war fighting, or in a concentration camp suffering.
Covid hasn’t happened because of “Brexit”, Covid has happened because enemy powers don’t want Brexit, Trump, or any over government in the world “RIght of Karl Marx”.
Even Boris has shuffled back to the center, presumably because powers on high have ordered him to do so…
He’s wealthy, if he ever gets forced out don’t forget… He can go “Oh well never mind - I’ve busted the nation, and now we’re so in hock to China, either we starve, or agree to let China take over parts of our own country - and government.”
…until someone with any power says STOP of course.
Who’s our ally these days?
…too much good living man. 