Fighting on

People like a good war metaphor.

The latest is that Boris is Battling the virus. Or hell beat the virus as he's a fighter.

The nation is at war, perhaps.

But the truth is, in using such metaphors to describe battling an illness suggests that if the person succumbs to it, then it was because they didn't fight enough, because they were not good enough.

Survival or not depends on many things, genes, promptness of treatment and a whole load of other variables.

Again, for the record, I hope he survives, because I am a human and wish no harm on another human, no matter what they might have done in the pass. Saying that, one hopes that he and his colleagues in the various Cabinets and Governments of the last decade will reflect on the cuts and policies they have forced on the NHS, and it would be nice if one of them, just one of them, fessed up and admitted they got it wrong.

But according to the Health Secretary, now is not the time to talk about nurse's pay. Well if not now, fucking when? Nurses, doctors and staff are putting their lives on the line every day. Are the Government saying they can have a round of applause, but nothing extra in their wallets?

Even after this shit show?

In the UK and US, the unfolding horror is a direct result of policy decisions made my the respective leaders, and whether they did a good job should be based on comparing infection and mortality rates from other countries.

Trump is already blaming everyone but himself, even though his own Twitter fed show his terrible decisions and policies from only three weeks ago. In the UK, the Government wasted two months failing to increase supply of PPE and other equipment, we should not let them get away with this.

11 members of Transport for London have died from the virus, probably caught from a passenger, they are not mentioned. I mean I know there's a lot of stuff going on at the moment, but their lives must be hell too!