U.S. Politics: Is the Civil Cold War beginning to Heat Up?

 Reports of 4 protesters shot dead in DC, is the civil cold war starting to heat up?#

Republicans are normally the people that would support the Police and the authorities in general. They are the party of Law and Order after all. 

BUT.... If the authorities continue to follow unconstitutional edicts from politicians, if they start to suppress Conservative protests, those Police, those authorities will soon lose the support of the Republicans. At that point the authorities in general, become fair game, because in the eyes of Conservatives, they are not abiding by the letter nor the principle of the US constitution. 

Republicans are more likely to be armed, if the Authorities lose the support of the Republicans, then I can't see a good outcome.

I can see Republicans returning fire. From then on, the future is uncertain, apart from at that point the cold war becomes a hot one.

COVID-19: Time for Plan B?

 I said way back in November that if the (then) current measures were not stopping the spread of the virus, why did we persist in continuing with them?

Successive lockdowns haven't stopped the spread of the virus, masks, perspex screens, closing pubs, closing non-essential shops, the lot. None of it has stopped the spread of the virus.

Now we have the new, more transmissible variant that has the ability to get round these measures, there's even less reason to continue with the same measures over and over again.

I haven't yet seen a proper inquiry into where the virus is spreading. Where exactly are these people contacting each other?

Is it at work? Is it in the Supermarket? Is it on Public Transport? Just exactly where are people transmitting the virus to each other? After all the NHS covid app should be storing when and where people are in contact, so it shouldn't be rocket science to extract that information from the app to get a picture of the most risky activities 

Even though not all people have downloaded and activated the NHS covid track and trace application, the government should in theory be able to get enough information on when and where people were infected. If the app doesn't supply that sort of information, then it's next to useless, because the only way to stamp out on transmission is to reduce or suppress those activities that are spreading the virus.

Also, the statistics on where the virus is most liable to be spread can be passed onto the public and then even the most sceptical lockdown-deniers can make an informed choice on whether they avoid those areas of contact and transmission.

In order to get on top of the virus, we have to change our strategy. Doing the same things over and over again that are provably not stopping the spread of the virus is a waste of time, resources and is losing people their jobs unnecessarily.

Lets work smarter, work better and beat the virus.

U.S. Politics: How do Sort It Out?

 Well, edifying times in Washington, with ordinary citizens making their frustration known regarding the so-called stolen Presidential election.

But, if as is reported the officials running the system are corrupt, what do you do?

You take it over yourself, that's what. 

The advantage the common man has in America is their citizens are allowed to own guns. They can quite easily take over buildings and processes. 

Call it a civil war if you want, but the civil cold war is already in play. The citizens of the US have been denied a fair election. Ignoring outright fraud, which is hard to prove, there is enough evidence of security issues. When people can casually walk around counting centres with memory sticks, putting them into polling machines willy-nilly, when votes can be tampered with easily, where there is no security and therefore no confidence in the process, there has to be reform.

Luckily in the UK we are small enough to identify large-scale election fraud around mail-in voting, but I'm sure the US can bring in a process that makes checking of voters easier and more rigorous.

So, it's up to the citizens of the US, ALL citizens that are concerned about election integrity to get involved in reforming the US election process.

And if the political process doesn't work, then guns...lots of guns. Make that civil cold war hot. The population against the elites.

U.S. Politics: Welcome to the one-party state bitches!

 So it looks like the Democrats have engineered the Presidency as well as control of Congress and Senate.

Effectively America will be under the total and absolute control of one party.

No checks or any moderating balance.

Effectively a one-party state.

Good luck guys!

COVID-19: Note To Boris - LOCKDOWNS. DON'T. WORK.

 It looks like Boris is going to announce a new lockdown tonight. 

Guess what Boris? It will be as effective as the last lockdown (Tier4) and the Lockdown before that (the November "Save Christmas" lockdown) and the lockdown before those two lockdowns (The "Save the NHS" three month lockdown).

None of which have stopped the spread of the virus.

Now Boris, if you are going to have a fourth lockdown, please can we have a "proper" lockdown? 

By that I mean closing the borders, closing the airports and making people entering the country to isolate in hotels for two weeks at their expense, like they do in New Zealand and Australia.

Without proper control of people entering into the country, how the hell can we control the virus? 

Lets have a proper closure of shops, or at the very least control of the numbers entering shops, like the original lockdown.

And I hope the government give up with this stupid notion of keeping schools open as well. Those little snot-breathing bacteria-farms called children will spread the virus as surely as eggs are eggs. And if not them then their parents meeting up at the school gates are a vector for infection spread.

Otherwise, without proper lockdown, what's the point? It will be a failure, just like the ones before.

Or alternatively, now we know that lockdowns (at least the UK version) don't work, lets not fucking bother and let all the people that have a 99.999999% chance of surviving infection just go about their daily business.

Let's stop fucking the country up for no apparent gain. Because Boris, you are quickly losing the support of the country. We can't keep going into lockdown after lockdown and still be where we were before.

You will lose the support of the people, the government will lose the support of the people. The Police and the NHS will lose support also.

I can quickly see the day when we lose all respect for authority in this country and the ensuing chaos will not be pretty. The Police have already lost the respect of the working class, it's quickly losing the support of the middle class too. When the majority of the population have no respect for the law, or the rules the government put forward (illegally, without consent of Parliament) then you have a BIG problem.

You have been warned.