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You are probably right.

My father was in the British Army during the 60s. Racism and Homophobia was endemic back then and to be honest I was brought up that way.

But you don’t have to accept what you are taught from a young age. Keeping your eyes open you can teach yourself what is right or wrong. Many of my friends are from different ethnic backgrounds, Africa, India I even have a Chinese friend, but won’t be eating around his for a while

One of my best friends is a gay DJ, does a lot of his gigs in gay bars in London and Ive has some of the most fun nights out with him. But....

In the UK there is government advice to social distance yourself and stay at home whenever possible. It is great to see the workers in the supermarkets being diligent, disinfecting trolleys, baskets the floors and the shelves. And then you get the completely retarded shoppers in there, abusing the workers because the store has ran out of some things. I guess there is no cure for stupidity.

And I have said before that I’m big and ugly enough to admit when I am wrong. I’m not going to slate Donald Trump anymore. I watched his last press conference and it was clearly being delivered by a man who feels the weight of 300 million people on his shoulders. You could see he was very emotional. Being a nation’s leader can’t be easy at the best of times. The current world leaders probably never imagined that they would have to take charge of what is a global crisis. Not everyone is going to agree with their methods and as human beings, they aren’t infallible and will make mistakes on the way. Hopefully they will learn from them. I never thought I’d see a Conservative government adopting some socialist methods in my lifetime but the UK government is doing just that. Nationalising the Railways, writing off the private debt the NHS has built up.

On a serious note and this is not a slagging but a genuine question. We hear on the news here that people in the US who don’t have insurance in some states may not be treated? That is a bit Alien to us in the UK in some ways because everyone will get treated (sure some counties have better facilities than others - we call it post code lottery) the question is: would we be able to slow down the spread of the virus if everyone got treated whether they had insurance or not? This virus terrifies me, not for me (I don’t even know if I’ve had the virus now because it turns out the tests are flawed - too many false positives and negatives to be certain) but for my elderly mother and Uncle who are going stir crazy at the moment - she has finally learned to use Skype mind... and also my girlfriend who is a frontline NHS worker. I’m keeping her spirits up by handwriting her letters, like the ladies used to write to the gentlemen on the frontline 100 or so years ago. Hey someone has to keep the postal service going

Whether we agree with our governments’ policies and procedures... we have to take our hats off to all the medical professionals who are battling to protect us all.

Anyway, god bless you all and stay safe


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