Call that Flu

In December 2019 I read on the BBC page that some 58% of the Chinese pork herd had been destroyed because of disease. Interesting, I thought, not knowing that the US Government knew in November, the previous Month, that Wuhan had reported viral deaths of a new, untreatable type. My first Facebook post warning of a pandemic was on January 17th, 2020. Trumps WH knew about the Covid pandemic in November of 2019.

I did not know about The world Military games, the second largest multi-national sporting games after the Olympics, was held in Wuhan, ending on October 27th, 2019.

9,000+ athletes from 140 Countries participated. Host nation China sent a delegation to Wuhan consisting of 553 participants for the games. Leaving around 8,500 athletes in total to travel back to Italy, Spain, UK, USA, and 136 other Countries. Around 230,000 volunteers were recruited for the event. The returning athletes traveling back from Wuhan would have been getting home round about the first week of November, 2019.

Covid 19 is not the first novel Cororona virus and it won’t be the last. These things have a way of disappearing when we get our best virologists on the case.  A year or two later and the scientists work it out. Science is like that. The thing though is about learning lessons. Those who forget the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them.

Unfortunately our defense against the untreatable viral infection was not led by informed scientists; but instead the ignorant malignant narcissist, led by his genius gut.  Although it is obvious that the collective application of our leading scientific minds would have been a more informed choice than the opinion of one man using his gut as the measure of his empirical knowledge base, the sorry fact is;  the religious-racist-right trust implicitly in this man’s gut, empowering him as a consequence of his position, to  place millions of lives at risk unnecessarily. With thanks to the blind faith training of a religious racist right education.

Sadly Trumps inability to place the mistakes of the past above his own vanity demonstrates the extreme to which; we all have the right to an opinion, but not all opinions are equal.

When the opinion of one idiot is the sole criteria affecting hundreds of millions of people, and in the case of this pandemic, billions, it is perhaps time to reflect on the relationship between the opinions of  those born and raised in the limitations of a  racist-religious-right and how we structure our democratic checks and balances accordingly. To ensure our democracy remains inclusively representative for all Americans.

In Britain as Covid arrived Prime Minister Johnson’s nonsensical decision to allow Heathrow to land planes from New York daily, with open access to the underground into Central London caused many deaths.  Quarantine for arriving passengers only changed on 8th May, 2020. Until then Covid 19 carriers were welcome to clear customs at Heathrow and walk directly onto the London Underground. Millions of passengers traveled directly from the epicenter of Covid, NYC, disembarking at Heathrow and entering the City’s underground system without so much as a temperature check at customs? That decision alone – to allow Heathrow to remain open without safety checks, unquestionably caused many deaths. And that is despite many observers, including myself commenting on this very absence of efficient management by the Johnson Government as early as February 2020………

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Here’s a link to a powerful collection of pictures from the Spanish flu years