So having made the rather difficult decision to leave our Florida home about 15 days early we are now faced with some rather cold weather for the first few days but then eventually it improved for about a week with bright sun and temperature in the mid 15C and started the difficult task of adjusting to the new time zone. In the meantime our buyers were having some challenges with their legal people but hopefully now resolved.
With regard to the current Corona Virus 19 epidemic which is sweeping the world , although when writing this today about half a million people have been affected with just over 30000 people dead which is really not good. However what worries me is the statistics which show some misleading information with countries using obviously different methods to record the infected and deaths and some countries have an alarming death rate per hundred infected compared to others, this is odd. Also most people seem to be dying from CV19 rather than the plain old FLU which affected many people in the UK in recent years, in fact there are figures showing that in the 2017/2018 period over 17000 deaths were recorded in the UK, so is there confusing in these stats, who knows and only if you do a post mortem can you really understand if they died as a direct result of the CV19 disease or were they just suffering from it whilst dying from FLU, perhaps we will never know.
In the UK there are many complaints the the Government did not handle this correctly and yet if you look around the world the same applies to all other Government’s as well it seems, certainly in Europe where the death rate is very high in Italy and Spain don't tell me they were prepared as no government or health service can ever be prepared to handle this type of event. So why is this??? Well when just about all Governments around the World spend absolute fortunes on purchasing Military Arms just in case we need to attack somebody or to defend ourselves from another power but if we did not spend this money we would have enough money to invest in healthcare to the extent required. Can you just imagine how many Hospitals and Staff we could have now if that money had been spent this way.The last major wars involving Western Powers were the Mid East in Iraq etc etc which have now pretty much finished as all involved parties have had enough unnecessary bloodshed with nobody ever being a winner. In fact there are many losers if you around the world today with the amount of people leaving many Mid East and African Countries for a better life elsewhere and taking major risks in doing so. perhaps less on arms deals and more spent on feeding and housing those people affected by the wars. NATO and UN really do sort this out because the heads appointed to these organisation mostly come from little known countries, one wonders if they are put there for that reason in that they wont get involved when USA takes on somebody, who knows.
It is also impossible for a Country to run with only 60% capacity all the time, France can do this in places but the cost is enormous and people always want lower taxes and more free services which is incompatible
Coming back to CV19 even the EU could not coordinate the response, and the so called Schengen Agreement allowing free travel is dead and buried, at least for now. There were lots stories floating around about and American Scientist who was working with the Chinese to help make this virus but this is mostly untrue, however who can you trust nowadays?, you cannot trust Governments and you cannot trust the Global Press who just love a sensationalist story and if they cannot find one they make it up by using that famous word COULD or even AN EXPERT SAID News papers are a nightmare. Having watched the recent Government updates from Number 10 with reporters all asking very stupid questions when the same question is asked every day by a different reporter is surprising that the Government spokesman don't lose their temper and often asking inflammatory questions and/ or twisting the words of the speaker!!!! I don not trust the press anymore as its impossible to tell fact from fiction.
here endeth’ todays lesson
