Ideas 24-1...Coronavirus Pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19

Nuclear weapons are pretty puny compared to the devastation that can be created by bio-weapons. For that reason the USG (United States government) has shut down at least three biological research laboratories in recent years due to lax bio security.

Much of this laboratory work would not be necessary were human civilisation managed by a world technocracy. Bio-weapon stockpiles would be safely destroyed by a WT. It makes little sense destroying the smallpox virus only to develop more lethal strains by artificial means. These viruses are not listed in medical journals, have no antidote, whilst many are gene specific in that they are designed to target specific races. It is a nightmare yet to be seen on the battlefield, but some inkling of its power can be judged from the death of 200,000 Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan in 2015, caused by a stomach bug. It's likely that the civilisation based at Angkor Wat in Cambodia was wiped out by the bubonic plague, carried by fleas in the fur of black rats, in circa 1348AD, whilst the pneumonia pandemic (Spanish flu) of 1920 cost the lives of at least fifteen million young people around the world. Smallpox still exists in official repositories in the USA and Russia. However, occasionally it is found in medical facilities that have not been managed professionally, whilst the WHO ordered it eradicated in 1980. However, in the USA, it has been found in Bethesda, Maryland in 2004 and in Pennsylvania in 2021.

As for me, I'm fighting an eternal battle with the local rats, the vector that brought flees carrying the black death to Europe in the middle ages. I see them illuminated by my PIR floodlight in the garden. I can hear them scampering around in the loft, snug as a bug inside my 200mm of loft insulation, and entering my house via the sewer to lay their droppings on the kitchen floor under the sink. Poison from the council rat catcher had little effect. I've zapped five of them over a period of two years. Firearms, explosives and crossbows are not permitted, but that's not the case with government. It can pass legislation to restrict their food supply and kill the critters en masse. Instead it turns its wrath on our nice cuddly badgers, suspected of passing tuberculosis to cattle. No doubt with a guilty conscience, HMG has now (March 2020) decided to vaccinate both cattle and badgers against TB.

Today governments no doubt have the capability to wipe out the entire human race with bio-weapons, should they be so totally removed from reality, should their scientists mishandle it, or should terrorists or a disgruntled employee get their hands on it. What could happen, ultimately does happen given time...Murphy's law. You have no doubt seen horror movies depicting zombies. It is now known that such an effect can be created by viruses attacking the consciousness part of the human brain. Creating zombies from the skin of a puffer fish has been known for centuries through voodoo worship in Haiti.

Bio-engineering is employed not just to create bioweapons, but also to create new materials, mainly for the aerospace sector. Whilst a new material or substance can be created, it is also necessary to determine what effect, if any, it has upon its environment. In a WT where resources are almost unlimited, such high risk bio-engineering research would be done at no more than three closely monitored research centres off Earth, possibly in pressurised laboratories, in a lava tube on the Moon, since gravity would be needed to assist experiments. Humans would be barred from the facility in order to enhance security. Everything would be conducted by AI and androids, with remote handling and monitoring from the Lunar Gateway. There would be no research into bio-weapons.

As I write this chapter, Covid-19 (Coronavirus in year 2019) has escaped into the human chain. Initially believed to have been transmitted to humans from a pangolin, an endangered species, infected by a bat and sold at Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, a city of eleven million people. News of the outbreak, released by a doctor who later died from it, was delayed one month by government officials. The lethality rate is about 1 to 3%, at least twice that of flu, but it could mutate into something more lethal, since it has a structure similar to the 2003 SARS coronavirus. Covid-19 is known to have mutated, even between members of the same family. There are thought to be at least one hundred different versions of Covid-19, with medical scientists and technicians rushing around trying to find out which versions are dangerous. In the beginning the general public were told to watch out for just four symptoms, chills, headaches, fever and uncontrollable coughing. A virus or coronavirus usually damages either of two locations in the body. These locations are where it replicates, and also where the immune system over-reacts. That location is indiscriminate. It can result in inflammation of artery walls, stroke in the brain, blood clot in the heart, or liver thrombosis, lung embolism or kidney failure. Even dialysis machines have been known to block up as a result. It has also been observed to affect the male sex hormones. Other visible signs are blue lips, inability to wake or stay awake. These ailments are similar to that of toxic shock syndrome. Severe problems become apparent in about one in one thousand infected patients. The symptoms are stomach ache, diarrhoea, skin lesions, sharp chest pain, loss of taste and smell, and neurological problems. Also chills, fever, coughing, shortness of breath, muscle aches, nausea, vomiting, and conjunctivitis. Just about everything not on your wish list.

1...What are the persistent side effects on survivors?

2...Will survivors be able to produce healthy children?

3...AIDS is caused by HIV, a retrovirus that has been researched since about 1980. There is still no cure nor vaccine. The latest treatment as of 2015 is Genvoya an anti-retroviral cocktail of drugs taken orally once per day for HIV-1 infection. It reduces the level of HIV-1 in the blood, delaying damage to the immune system. What hope is there that research based upon SARS, which is 80% similar to Covid-19, will create a cure or vaccine by summer 2021? SARS research was stopped when the funding ran out. Today billions of dollars have been pledged by the IMF and USG, but there are only so many geniuses working in medical research labs that can take advantage of it. In 2007 the International Health Regulations came into force. A WHO publication, it is designed to prevent and control the spread of disease. It's clear to me that the WHO should be managing this pandemic, not left in the hands of amateurs in governments. But where are the detailed plans, stockpiles of equipment and trained staff? In January 2017 the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was created, by the World Economic Forum at Davos. Designed to channel contributions from philanthropists towards the development of vaccines. Presumably Donald Trump wasn't one of them, since the Trump administration, in May 2018, ordered the National Security Council’s global health security unit shut down. Today, in the UK, laboratories like that at Imperial College, London are no doubt taking advantage of HMG's 46 million pound contribution towards this aim.

4...Covid-19 is spread human to human via spital, coughing and sneezing. Can weather conditions permit it to travel long distances, such as in the UK's now weekly storms? A comment broadcast by BBC News read as follows, 'if you can smell garlic on the breath of someone, then you are too close. Fair enough, but for one thing. I can smell garlic from my next door neighbours kitchen. Just how do I relocate my mid terraced house, or do I murder my neighbours? What are the odds that this pandemic brings down civilisation, because social isolation is impossible, isn't it?

I scanned the internet for attractive biohazard suits. One look at the Hazmat range would be enough to make any Paris based fashion designer turn green. I simply could not see how a manager could get GPs and reception staff, particularly female, to wear such monstrosities, particularly when no infections had been discovered in their area. That led me to latex. Now I'm not into that sort of thing, but I do think that the answer lies within that industry. And how about an air fed respirator system that looks like an sci-fi astronaut's helmet? No, the zombie virus hasn't got to me yet, and you'll have to have a shave first, in order to make the face mask airtight. Personally I would prefer a fully transparent plastic hood, rather like an Apollo astronaut helmet. The best biohazard suit I've seen was in the 2001 movie Evolution. I've worn full face respirators for two employers. They're OK for about an hour, but to work in them all day is just not on. They are too hot, too uncomfortable, and restrict communication. Oh, and the movies listed in parenthesis are exciting alternatives to the boring info that the hyperlinks reveal (for kids). There now follows a detailed review of Covid-19 and HMG's handling of the situation. I wish I could have been less critical. The decisions made appear to have been made primarily for commercial reasons. Because of that, they give the impression that either our politicians want elderly people to die, in order to reduce future budgets, or that they are totally incompetent. I let you decide. The one thing that is never covered by HMG nor the media is, 'why don't we let some competent NGO (Non Government Organisation) handle this pandemic, someone with prior experience, with Sars-CoV-1, MERS-CoV, etc. either directly, or through the UN, WHO, CDC? Incidentally Sars-Cov-2 is the strain of coronavirus that causes the disease Covid-19. Sars-CoV-1 can also be called severe acute respiratory syndrome, whilst Mers-Cov is also known as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome or camel flu. Sars-Cov-1 occurred in the PRC in 2002/3, whilst in 2004 a small outbreak originated from a medical laboratory also in the PRC. Although it is 80% similar to Sars-CoV-2 (Covid-19), it is currently not thought to originate from the same source.

Sars-Cov-1 had a 10% kill rate. MERS-Cov-1 was a coronavirus possibly originating in Jordan, although most deaths are from Saudi Arabia (2012) and South Korea (2015). It has a 40% kill rate, and is still monitored by the Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This is why the PRC, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore responded so professionally during the Covid-19 outbreak. They had some idea of what was heading their way.

As time passes, it is now becoming clear as to how this pandemic could, and probably did start. The origin is clearly Wuhan, in the PRC. Wuhan has two highly advanced bioengineering laboratories, The Wuhan Institute of Virology and The Wuhan Centre for Disease Control. Some facilities were designed by the French, whilst staff were trained in the USA. It beggars the question, why were these labs built so close, three and ten miles, from the centre of Wuhan, a city of eleven million people. Also, how experienced were the senior staff at managing such facilities, and was all this new equipment adequately tested? The sequence of events of this pandemic appears to be as follows:

January 2019...Four authors working at The Wuhan Institute of Virology attempted to publish a scientific paper on dangers of a new coronavirus eminating from the PRC. It was finally published in March by MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), one year before lockdown measures were implemented in Europe. Did Covid-19 escape from this laboratory, and was Huang Yanling, a researcher at the Institute of Virology, 'patient zero'?

November late 2019...Unconfirmed reports, that details of influenza/pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, PRC passed on to US DoD, Pentagon. Months later analysis of satellite images of crowded hospital car parks suggest that epidemic actually started in August 2020.

December 11th 2019...Patient zero is believed to be a long haired female student researcher called Huang Yanling who works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She reports sick to her boss Professor Wei Hong Ping in Autumn 2019. Over time all record of her disappears. Finally the young woman herself disappears. One year later she is still missing. Many believe she is dead. Investigation continues by Mail on Sunday news media, intelligence agents, CDC and WHO. Staff at Wuhan Jinyintan hospital say first 13 of 41 patients had no links to Wuhan market. Clusters of infected people suggests human to human transmission, and not an infection over a wide area from bats or parboiling. Infection appears to have come from Horseshoe bats, normally found 1000 miles away in Yunnan, and transferred by humans, not pangolin. Mers-CoV-1 is very similar to Sars-CoV-2 (Covid-19), being caused by bats infecting camels in Saudi Arabia. Earliest known infection was in Jordan in March 2012. As far as is known, there is no link between the two. There are 1400 species of bats on Earth. They have a balanced immune system, in that they react to all infections but they don't over react.

December 26th 2019...Samples of infected patients sent from Wuhan to private research centre 500 miles away. Tests confirm that it is about 80% similar to SARS, and highly dangerous. Samples then sent to other centres within PRC, who state that it is SARS, which is known to have a 10% mortality rate. All hospitals, research centres and staff told by the state not to communicate their knowledge to the media. Doctors in Wuhan hospital told not to wear masks, for fear of causing panic. Chinese CDC, hospitals in Wuhan and central government in Beijing informed.

December 27th 2019...Man infected with Covid-19 later recovers in French hospital. Means of transmission unknown, but possibly from Chinese people working at a food stall, next to where his wife works. Wife had no symptoms, meaning that she is asymptomatic or not infected. Months later, analysis of effluent in northern Italy, indicates that Covid-19 was present there also in December 2019.

December 30th 2019...It was announced by the Chinese premier, as a viral epidemic. Dr Li Wenliang warned doctors to wear PPE after seeing seven cases at Wuhan Central Hospital that looked like SARS. The police then told him to stop spreading rumours. By now news of a serious epidemic in Wuhan, and that the cause was lethal to humans was in the public domain. An employee of the WHO states, "In each outbreak, every country has initially failed to co-operate with the WHO." After listening to that statement on 26-01-2021 on the BBC2 TV program '54 Days China and the Pandemic.' I am inclined to say that the only hope for the human race is to have it managed by IT and androids with the IT producing the programming.

December 31st 2019...PRC tells World Health Organization about epidemic. RoC (Taiwan) begins screening arrivals.

January 1st, 2020...Food market in Wuhan closed down.

January 2nd, 2020...Final gene sequencing results muzzled by authorities in PRC.

January 3rd, 2020...PRC informs WHO of outbreak in Wuhan.

January 4th, 2020...China CDC informs USA CDC of Covid-19 outbreak. 'Not human to human.' Failure to co-operate fully with other countries and the WHO in controlling a pandemic, is a breach of international health regulations.

January 12th, 2020...WHO (World Health Organisation) announce that there is no evidence to suggest that Covid-19 is transmitted from human to human. PRC publishes genome of virus, which is received by pharmaceutical companies.

January 13th, 2020...WHO makes first statement on Covid-19 Thailand infection. Based upon the genome of the coronavirus issued by the PRC, the Oxford Vaccine Group design a vaccine in just two days, much of it based upon previous research work on SARS. Animal studies and human trials to follow, funding permitting. It's based upon an adenovirus from chimps, designed to produce the protein of the spikes located on the surface of the coronavirus. This trains the bodies immune system to recognise the coronavirus when infection later takes place. Funding and production facilities are later agreed with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The drug will be supplied to third world countries at cost price. Developed countries pay more. It will be seven weeks before trials start, including nineteen sites in UK, plus those in Brazil and South Africa. A German company starts work on a test kit.

January 15th, 2020...PRC coronavirus DNA structure identified. 96% of it found in bats. A group of Chinese academic institutions compile a report on Covid-19, a copy of which is sent to the Lancet medical magazine. Reuters news agency state that Covid-19 had human to human transmission capability. This is repudiated by government of PRC (PRCGOV).

January 20th, 2020...PRC's Health Ministry announce that human to human transmission of Covid-19 exists. Three days later the Chinese city of Wuhan is in lockdown. Governments in the Far East impose lockdowns. Cities are isolated, with streets deserted. So why has this happened? Just about everyone in the medical profession knows that most of these deadly viruses originate in the PRC, where farm animals are found in close proximity. This one appears to be due to the illegal sale of bush meat, or a live animal, infected by bats. The Chinese new year holiday (January 25th) has been extended, as the economy shuts down. A new one thousand bed hospital will be built in ten days for victims of the epidemic. Why are people dying in such large numbers? It's a crowded environment, making transmission easy, but the Chinese are also heavy smokers, whilst Covid-19 specifically attacks the lungs, which tobacco smoke also infects. Smoking is a filthy, disgusting, immature habit. It not only ruins your sex appeal, but is also unwelcome in the work place and with family at home. It can harm children when smoked in a closed environment. If there was ever a time to give it up, it is now. It is never too late to quit consuming tobacco products. As I write this chapter, it has now spread to South Korea, Canary Islands, Japan, northern Italy, whilst Iran has failed to institute a lockdown. Japan is not fighting this infection seriously, no doubt because they do not want the Olympic Games cancelled. Thousands are rumoured to be infected, but ignored by the state. Because of this attitude, HMG will ban our competitors from going to Japan, whilst any that defy the ban will be arrested and quarantined for an indefinite period, probably. Rumours are that those that survived the initial infection are still carriers of the disease. Some infected people show no symptoms, and then pass it on to others, known as asymptomatic. It is not known whether survivors of the infection now have a built in lasting immunity. Since 82,000 people are known to be infected in umpteen countries, it implies that a global pandemic is inevitable, unless of course those infected are placed in a sheltered community or cured completely. An unacceptably large percentage of medical staff are being infected, whilst only one in nineteen infected people are being diagnosed early, because the symptoms take two to three weeks to appear. Since everyone is ultimately likely to be infected, much of the following course of events beggars belief:

January 22nd, 2020...Wuhan, PRC isolated. HMG sets up SAGE Covid-19 response team, the most well known of which becomes Professor Chris Whitty CB FMedSci, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Health and Social Care, who appears weekly with the prime minister or minister for health at government pandemic TV broadcasts. Other key members of SAGE are Sir Patrick Vallance FMedSci FRS Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor John Aston Chief Scientific Adviser, and Home Office Professor Wendy Barclay FMedSci of Imperial College London

January 27th, 2020....Twenty companies meet in Seoul at Korea ACDC. They create a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 within seven days. Only thirty contacts are found.

January 29th, 2020...President Trump warned. Next day flights to PRC restricted.

January 30th, 2020...WHO (World Health Organisation) second statement on Covid-19. WHO Director-General declares Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). Immediately afterwards, President Donald Trump announced the formation of a task force to deal with it. CDC has a German test kit ready. 170 people dead across Asia. 380,000 people have entered USA from PRC during January.

January 31st, 2020...USG makes public health emergency statement regarding Covid-19. Weeks later USG complains that WHO did not recommend worldwide travel bans.

February 3rd, 2020...WHO leader Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tells the world not to close borders with the PRC, in a speech at the annual opening of the agency’s Executive Board.

February 7th, 2020...NIAID (National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases) announced that a potential vaccine would be ready for human trials in two and a half months, the day after Dr Li Wenliang, a 34-year-old ophthalmologist, who tried to announce this coronavirus to the world, died in Wuhan, PRC, from Covid-19.

February 14th, 2020...PM Boris Johnson & partner Carrie Symonds spend almost ten days at Chevening, a grace and favour lakeside mansion consisting of 115 rooms set in 3,500 acres, normally reserved for the foreign secretary, in Kent, whilst ministers held five COBR meetings discussing the UK floods and Covid-19 in London. Why was the PM absent? What could be more important than that? Was he planning the final solution? Was this the path to herd immunity? Was he surrounded by wimps and idiots who would blindly obey his orders? It's time HMG released his computer data, telephone records, hand written notes, verbal orders, places he visited (when, duration, purpose), people he met, and internet usage details, yes, and even his doodles? I'm sure the psychiatrists will find the latter a bonanza. Members of COBRA are the prime minister Boris Johnson, plus senior ministers, civil servants, heads of security, intelligence, military, emergency services and councils, depending on the type of crisis.

February 18th, 2020...Covid-19 outbreaks in South Korea, Italy and Iran. Infected woman found to have links with Christian sect of 200,000 members in South Korea. The next day Atalanta verses Valencia football match takes place in 75,000 capacity stadium in Italy. Iranians become infected due to PRC Moslem trips to Hom, and Chinese politicians and businessmen, due to trade embargo by USA. CDC issues warning of pandemic with 2247 now dead. Dr Fauci confronts President Trump. From February 21st to March 12th the FTSE stockmarket falls 2166 points.

February 24th, 2020...PM returns to London from Chevening to attend Conservative party fund raising ball.

February 25th, 2020...Dr Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Disease warns Americans in a speech on Covid-19 that it is rapidly evolving and expanding. Three days later upon his return from India, President Donald Trump said that the USA has lost no one from this disease. Investors in the world's stockmarkets could see the implications even if the US president could not.

February 26th, 2020...A lonely Covid-19 statement is read out in House of Commons. London stockmarket (FTSE) falls 13%, 210 billion pounds, over five days.

February 27th, 2020...I cashed in most of my shares, including ISAs, having waited long enough for a positive statement from HMG. I got all of my money, but the whole experience has put me off capitalism. The markets are too volatile due to too many individual share owners engaged in knee jerk reactions. Bank account interest rates of not more than 1%, are so low that many unsuitable people have migrated to the stockmarket, either through their bank or a unit trust. The UK leaving the EU is the cause of much uncertainty, leading to stockmarket instability. This was a political decision, not an economic one, and should therefore have no bearing on the stockmarket, which rose considerably last December. Conditions in the USA also affected its value. There will probably be no deal by HMG with the EU, whilst HMG has not issued its economic policy for the duration of the Covid-19 outbreak. It is obvious that the WHO has no detailed plan for a pandemic, or if it has, its member states, including HMG, don't take it seriously. I can see the global capitalist system collapsing, as a result. I have no idea what to do with my savings. No doubt HM Treasury will call at some stage, requesting that I buy Covid-19 bonds. HMG will try anything, but raise the top rate of income tax to a realistic level. I possess a deep sense of foreboding, with unnatural feelings within my body, implying that I already have the coronavirus, that won't go away. It's psychosomatic? Can't help thinking that our national anthem should be changed to 'Got to look on the bright side of life'.

February 29th, 2020...USG says risks from Covid-19 is low. Covid-19 testing in USA restricted to people from PRC, and those with symptoms of fever. An important official was later to say that if President Donald Trump had been a doctor, he would have been struck off. US states are competing against one another in the purchase of PPE.

February 30th, 2020...Stock markets are turbulent. From February 21st to March 23rd London's Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 falls 2409 points or 32.5%. Over the same period in New York the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from 28992 to 18592, a fall of 35.8%. It was to fully recover seven months later, due to the lack of interference from the unbelievers in the White House. During the same period the FTSE was to recover only 59%. I felt that they should be shut down for one week whilst the human race gets a heavy dose of lectures on all TV and radio time, regarding its responsibilities towards nature and the environment. Sadly governments don't seem to care. In the PRC entire factories have shut down, whilst in the west, office staff are being told to work from home. No doubt it will not be long before employers realise it's best to replace their white collar workers with machine learning artificial intelligence. Out of sight, out of mind. Companies with idle factories waiting for parts from abroad, will no doubt realise that their demands could be met by 3D printing them. This technology requires no cross border travel, whilst in a world where the buying general public are adverse to going out through fear of infection, 3D printing is ideal for small quantity production and manufacture in local stores. At the end of this pandemic, which could cost the lives of 5 million people over a two to five year period, plus many more in poor third world countries and conflict zones, the global economy is likely to be very different from how it's composed now in 2020. Will civilisation survive? Isn't it time that we had a world technocracy? Come to think of it, a pandemic is probably the only way we're likely to get one. The economic impact of a pandemic can be read in a Reuters report. From studying this data I was able to determine that I stand an 8% chance of dying from Covid-19. The Covid-19 time line indicates that this infection should have been brought before parliament six weeks before it was. I'm unable to figure out why it wasn't. All of these reports, their hyperlinks listed here, I find distressing:

March 3rd, 2020...I'm waiting for HMG's announcement about what measures against this epidemic it intends to implement. I am not pleased. There is too much foot dragging. This coronavirus has at least a two week head start on us, before any symptoms appear. On the other hand, our politicians typically react to events, they do not create them. They have no vision, they cannot anticipate its next move. When interviewed yesterday by BBC news, our entertaining prime minister could not even put figures on the number of people who will die in the UK from this outbreak. In a nation of about 66,600,000 people, 80% (HMG) will be infected, whilst 3.4% (WHO) of them will die. That's 1,811,520. These percentages could be higher in countries where the general population is more genetically susceptible, or where the climate (wet and windy) makes the mist of droplets last longer. People working arduously in a crowded environment (mines), or in a highly infected area (hospital), will experience a higher severity of infection. Those living in war zones, or where government is ineffective, are unlikely to be offered help. Those in crowded refugee camps will be only a little better off. Seasonal flu kills less than 1%. Bacteria and viruses can still be potentially deadly after years in a hostile environment. When Apollo astronauts brought part of a surveyor soft lander back from the Moon, scientists discovered droplets on it, presumably from a coughing scientist during construction, that were active when made wet. The state controlled media, namely the BBC has attempted to minimize this statement by saying that more people are dying from tuberculosis. That of course is mainly in the third world. One quarter of the world's population can be infected with TB. About 400 people die of TB per annum in the UK. Worldwide somewhere between 1.8 million and 1.3 million people lost their lives to TB in 2015, that's about 4,000 per day. The TB death rate fell 42% between the years 2000 and 2017, due to advances in treatment. Many of these deaths are HIV related.

We are now constantly told to wash our hands for 20 seconds, don't shake hands but instead touch elbows together, don't touch your eyes, nose or mouth, and always use a disposable tissues. As for touching pay screens at self service supermarket concessions areas, gripping hand rails on buses and trains, handles on flush toilets, door keys, computer touch screens, keyboards & mice, plastic bank notes and coins, Automated Teller Machines, mobile phones, and doors in hospitals and GP's surgeries, the only advice I found was to use baby wipes. Maybe disposable thin plastic gloves would be better. As for the TV remote, who gets its exclusive use in your family, to avoid cross contamination? Handrails should be coated in copper, to kill germs, so why aren't they? Oh, and after washing your hands, how do you turn off the water without possible contamination from the tap? You use a tissue, although in the bars that I frequent, I wish I had high heels to avoid stepping into the urine and vomit, whilst the bog rolls have usually run out. There is also no mention of avoiding crowded places, like poorly ventilated buses, ocean liners, trains during commutes, and disco bars at the weekend. There will be no ban on kissing (at least that's how I interpreted it). Will HMG enforce limits on numbers in pubs and bars, and fit dehumidifiers in buses, assuming that would make a difference?

Well not everyone shakes hands. In India and Thailand they join hands together as if in prayer, whilst in Japan and South Korea they bow to one another. As for Italy and the UK, our high mortality levels are probably due to a high percentage of elderly in our populations. Negroes in the USA have a high mortality rate due to working in concessions areas, having a close nit family, no health insurance, poor living conditions, genes, etc. As for remote regions like Australia and New Zealand with their border controls, hopefully their luck will hold out as long as they stay outdoors.

And will we now get a cashless society, as a means of avoiding all that grubby infected coinage, by using a compulsory remotely read debit card. The PRC has a system based upon face recognition, instead of biometric identity cards. Will our banks kick the arse of our prime minister by telling him that they will no longer handle bank notes and coins? Banks have a duty of care to their employees and the general public. If our financial institutions do not go along with this, then I can see group actions against them, and don't expect our elderly judges to be sympathetic after losing their colleagues and relatives to Covid-19. And of course there is the spectre of the Libra Association founded by Facebook and incorporating Lyft and Spotify. Based upon the US dollar and euro, will this leave our financial sector in the doldrums, like the rest of our British enterprises which are incapable of competing with Facebook, PayPal, Amazon, eBay, iTunes, Twitter, etc? HMG can't even tax these corporate tax havens realistically. And will HMG finally shut down escort agencies, if only temporarily, and make prostitution illegal, in order to slash cross infection and sex tourism? Of course we have a PM suspected of using one hundred thousand pounds of hard earned and honest tax payer's money to procure the services of a female reporter, so what hope is there of that happening? HMG appears to have washed its hands of the entire affair, by coming out with this unconvincing list of advice. It amounts to nothing more than an exercise in psychology, where you play something down, in the hope that you can convince everyone that your initial slow response was perfectly justified.

They say that masks are ineffective, but I disagree. They do reduce the chances of infected people passing on the infection. Where will the army of cleaners come from, with their disinfectant? It's time to conscript the unemployed. And as the elderly die, who will look after the little children they cared for, whilst their mother's work? The real nightmare has yet to unfold. Will employers be required to provide nursery, child education and meals facilities, as schools are closed? Most companies are too small for that. Will HMG therefore force companies to amalgamate? But if markets and ports shut down to trade, then factories will also have to. That is why we need a national economy based upon demand at home, to keep things going, and why we need UK holiday tours, to keep people thinking positive, so they go out and buy things that UK industry makes. If HMG puts all its bets in the global economy instead of a national economy, we may come out of this with a totally worthless currency. The PRC has $34 trillion of public and private debt. As one of our major trading partners, it makes one wonder how much longer the global economy will last, and whether we should develop a plan B at such a critical time. Now may also be the time to expand the pound stirling zone. If things really get bad on the continent, an awful lot of British people will want to sell up and retire elsewhere. Now's the time for HMG to act, before the French do. (Madagascar) This may provide a use for all those disused airliners, alternatively, they will have to be mothballed in rigid tents, on disused RAF bases, free of charge, for many years. Only to be made redundant by advancing technology.

This outbreak is reputed to have started in China in early December / late November 2019, and it has taken almost three months for HMG to announce appropriate measures to protect its citizens.

March 4th, 2020...IMF (International Monetary Fund) announced the provision of $50 billion to fight Covid-19.

March 6th, 2020...US president signed a $8.3 billion Emergency Coronavirus Bill. On the same day HMG announced funding of 46 million pounds to fight Covid-19. Why has it taken so long, when clearly thousands of stock market investors had become deeply disturbed at the establishment ignoring this issue. In the previous prime minsters's questions on 26-02-20, all parliament wanted to talk about were the floods, that were affecting a few hundred homes, than the epidemic, that potentially affected millions of people worldwide. It was an attempt to belittle what was approaching this nation, a submerged Godzilla of an epidemic, and it clearly failed, resulting in the stock market crash. It beggars the question, is a prime minister who is clearly more interested in procuring his sixth child with his girlfriend, a fit and proper person to lead this nation on important matters such as health and the environment? After prime minister's questions, MPs rushed out of the House of Commons as a government spokesperson rose up to read out a statement on the coronavirus epidemic. This was the first reaction to this incident by HMG, about six weeks after the PRC belatedly announced it to the world, about three months after Dr Li Wenliang discovered it. Hardly any MPs stayed to listen to it. I hope the electorate remembers this insult at the next general election, since most of them don't appear to give a damn about the health of their constituents. To be fair, many of these MPs had probably already read the statement, but public relations is everything. You cannot afford to upset the electorate. As for prime minister's questions, it now turns out that HMG has got the opposition parties to agree not to criticise the government's handling of it. They have all decided to go down together. Is that democracy? This is a matter that will last years, during which time the electorate will have no effective voice amongst these amateurs in parliament. It's now plainly obvious to me that we need a technocracy, not just to take on epidemics, but also to compete in the global economy.

Well now today, HMG has issued its 27 page battle plan for Covid-19:

1...HMG admits that the coronavirus will probably not be contained.

2...At its worst, one fifth of the nation's workforce will be off sick.

3...The police will be used to tackle crime and maintain order.

4...Military personnel will take on emergency duties.

5...There will be school closures.

6...Where possible people will work from home.

7...Ex-NHS doctors and nurses will be recruited for the NHS.

8...There will be no large gathering of people, such as at sport venues, theatres or discos.

The preacher of doom's answer to the above list is as follows:

1...Of course Covid-19 won't be contained because HMG will not stop infected people from entering and leaving this country. Heat sensors used by the border force at airports, only work 10% of the time, we are told, so banning people both ways is the only effective answer. Why not stop mainly tourists, from entering and leaving this country, at the lowest point in the holiday season? Global trade of goods would continue. HMG on the other hand has put its faith into sick people dialing 111. In my opinion, airports, sea ports and the channel tunnel must be closed to passengers, with crews kept on board. No shore leave, not even for air cargo crews. Embassies and consulates must be closed down, with only electronic communications between governments. It may be necessary to compartmentalize the country, not simply seal off districts or cities. Key bio-labs in Oxford, Cambridge, Porton Down and elsewhere should be guarded against possible terrorist attack. It maybe necessary to mothball airliners, and some factories that cannot get supplies or spare parts.

HMG must monitor the movement of infected people by tracking mobile phone and credit/debit card use, plus movements observed on police/private CCTV, assuming it doesn't do that already. An app should be automatically downloaded that can detect and identify phones within two metres, so that these people can be contacted should coronavirus transmission be suspected. The carrying of mobile phones during an epidemic must be a legal requirement, as should the wearing of a wrist mounted bio-sensor with bluetooth link to a mobile phone app. The updating of software on a mobile phone should be free, as it is with Windows ten. When my android phone's software suddenly disappeared, I had to reinstall all of it in German, costing me about twenty pounds. If it's not free, then many people will turn their backs on the technology. In Singapore, the government is handing out dedicated trackers free because their origin track & trace software does not work well enough. This is because not enough people have a smart phone, whilst Apple i-phones switch off bluetooth for apps working in the background. As for smart phone charges, I keep mine by my bed for emergencies and for no other reason, because of the cost of updating apps (20 pounds roughly every six months), no doubt in order to presumably satisfy the opulent lifestyle of Samsung directors. It's about time HMG showed some backbone and sent Samsung packing, as it is, all they want to do is be photographed shaking hands with billionaires. Will HMG's test & trace app work on smart phones? Disasters sometimes come in pairs, or worse, and this one certainly does.

Our climate is changing for the worst. Our weather is becoming more active. It is raining so much that agricultural machinery is getting bogged down in the fields. We may need to change our agricultural mindset. Do we import food, and factory components, that have probably been handled by infected foreign workers? Employees in bio-hazard suits will need to decontaminate imported shipping containers at the ports, whilst crates and packaging would be cleansed at their final destination, or incinerated. Businesses are slowly learning that if they want to sell their product to customers, then they must go direct, and sell either through market web sites like eBay, Amazon and Alibaba, or through their own ecommerce web site. And where are the IT / website creation training courses prime minister? And don't put them in London, as it gets enough support already. We may well have to set up hydroponic facilities in warehouses across the country, since food markets worldwide are now being closed down to reduce Covid-19 transmission via human contact. This means that UK agricultural products cannot be exported to some countries. Hydroponics can regularly yeald one to three crops per quarter. The police should take over hydroponic cannabis production facilities, for honest use. In addition, either we rear chickens, rabbits and fish, or we switch to artificial meat production, since soya bean imports from Brazil and palm oil imports from Indonesia and Malaysia maybe restricted. This is not the time to shut down our economy, since our industries must remain at the cutting edge in order to be competitive once the lockdowns cease. Environmentally benign products, requiring few workers to produce, must be developed, for the new world that many of us will never see. And in order to reduce person to person contact further, the nation's private employment agencies must be shut down, replaced by the National CV Centre, as described elsewhere on this website. Recruitment must be via video links employing face recognition security. All contracted employment must be banned, to stop people moving from one concern to another in just a few days, which of course increases the risk of cross infection. The Tory inspired flexible employment based economy must be scrapped.

2...If you suspect infection, you are advised to self isolate, with no guarantee of any sick pay. In recent years, employers have driven home the policy that you work till you drop. Who therefore is going to self isolate, and risk being fired? HMG has stated that statutory sick pay rules will apply from day one, instead of day four. HMG appears not to give a damn about how much damage is inflicted upon our economy in the long term. We have no way of knowing how long this disaster will persist for. To come out of this as an economic backwater, with no employment opportunities for the working class, would be unforgivable. Many companies operate with the minimum of personnel. Many key personnel have no back-up. HMG must delay the onslaught of this coronavirus as long as possible, to give organisations time to recruit graduates and apprentices, particularly in government, military, public utilities, IT, AI, communications, medical, nuclear and defence industries, and in order for IT, AI and virologists time to develop a cure or vaccine. Finding a vaccine with a high enough epidemiological efficacy will take at least one year.

It's also necessary to switch from a global economy to a national economy, because HMG and companies have little or no influence over the availability of components from abroad, particularly pharmaceuticals and food, due to home demand. The PRC and India are already restricting exports. They will have to be made in the UK. This is not a simple task as many of the process plants that produce the raw materials have relocated abroad. Alternative materials and processes will probably have to be embraced, no doubt requiring advice from HMG research establishments. Industry will need to produce a full range of medical equipment including pharmaceuticals, masks, smart bio-hazard suits, mobile x-ray equipment, smell sensors, tricorder, etc. It maybe possible to manufacture atmospheric bio-detectors, which when located at strategic points, such as escalators, lifts, building entrances, can detect this coronavirus carried by people. One item that HMG should not overlook, is the manufacture of personal wills, on a government website.

3...As for the police, they may well be required to maintain order, as this pandemic drags on year after year, with one wave after another. Please note that people cured can be reinfected if the virus mutates enough, known as transgenic drift. Other people cured, can be carriers showing no symptoms. HMG always wants a quick fix, but as time progresses, police will retire or simply give up. Civilisation as we know it could collapse.

4...As for military personnel, well they always get the short straw don't they. No doubt they will be required to bulldoze the bodies and cremate them in pits, just like what happened to cattle in the BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad cow disease) epidemic, as there simply won't be enough crematoriums to go around. The bodies may be naked due to the lack of body bags, cremated to prevent soil contamination.

5...School closures! Now somewhere amongst the above web sites it states that if you close schools, one of your parents will probably have to take time off work to look after you. Now don't you wish that my plan to confine education, in software based subjects, to cubicles, was already adopted by government? Education and job training must continue. With the prospect of high mortality amongst workers, it is time to replace our square pegs in round holes with a professional system based upon a national bio-identity card and a national CV centre, as described elsewhere on this website. Education and training belongs on the internet. The software already exists, whilst cooperation from the teaching profession does not, since they are all fearful of losing their jobs. HMG should consider charging parents with child cruelty if they have not made a computer and internet connection available to each child. Offering education based upon thirty school children to a classroom, at a time of lockdowns, would be criminal.

6...Working from home. Well I'm sure that idea will really please all those low paid on zero hours, working in canteens, cleaning, security, production line backup, and even contracted maintenance, who'll get no pay at all from their fly-by-night agency, whilst the factory or office is closed, no doubt wanting their SPEVs. SPEVs (Specific Person Electronic Vouchers) also have the advantage of restricting the movement of individuals, thereby containing an infection, since people would only be able to use them at specified food outlets, as described elsewhere on this website. Working from home involves the use of teleconferencing. So assuming every home has a decent internet connection, computer and camera, just when will people be able to book an appointment with their GP over the www, and then see their GP on their PC's screen at the appropriate time and date? And will the prescription be delivered to your door...regularly? And will teleconferencing also apply to Cobra meetings, government departments, local authorities and parliament? It's time HMG set an example, isn't it prime minister? And just what do you do with the screaming kids and howling dogs during all this? As time passed by these measures were implemented, but for some reason HMG would never embrace education via the internet, no matter how impossible it would be to educate a class of 30 kids at school using social distancing at two metres.

7... As for elderly retired doctors and nurses being commandeered to the 30 NHS hospitals containing 4,000 beds earmarked for Covid-19 patients, I must admit, that since the older you are, the more likely you will be killed by Covid-19, this is an excellent way for HMG to reduce its pension's commitment to the NHS. And if there really are all these beds for Covid-19 patients, why is the NHS already complaining of a shortage? I can't see HMG building a one thousand bed hospital in ten days, nor anything like it. They talk about taking over empty hotels. Can't HMG commandeer a few cheap empty office blocks for the duration? After all, most of these workers will be working from home. What's wrong with young less vulnerable auxiliary nurses, recruited from the dole queue or schools. It can't be that difficult to sort out a corona virus patient's needs. Maybe there is more to this than meets the eye. HMG's lackluster response to this outbreak does make me ask the question, are they really trying to save lives, or doing the exact opposite? Has HMG decided to pursue a policy of inevitability, in letting nature take its course, because a long term solution isn't available? No doubt NHS euthanasia standards would be applied to the nth degree, possibly even by medical advisors. The temptation is obvious, as parliament mulls over the cost of a social care bill for the elderly, 1.8 million people dead in the UK would make available to the treasury a considerable sum of money, in the form of state pensions, NHS pensions and NHS litigation fees, that would no longer be paid out. And then of course there are all those vacant council properties, hospital beds and convalescent homes waiting to be filled. Then there are the income support, universal credit, attendance allowance and other benefits that would no longer be necessary, since the mainly labour voters would now be deceased. Then there is the sale of the deceased unclaimed properties, to go to HM Treasury. The temptation to prevent the raising of the top rate of income tax will prove too great. And of course there are all those ungrateful tiresome relatives, plus the tight fisted bank of mum and dad to finally bump off, not to mention those back stabbing brothers and peers in the House of Lords. As time passed by, it became clear that the more contact you had with infected people, the worse your Covid-19 infection was likely to become. Doctors, nurses, security, concessions and bus drivers were particularly affected. Static workers in offices and on production lines, were either spaced apart or worked behind transparent screens, but if you couldn't be static, then the grim reaper was inevitably waiting for you. The more contact you have with Covid-19, then the more likely it is that it will attack more parts of your body, meaning that you will inevitably die from it. Only a hospitals accident and emergency unit can tell just how severe your infection is. Wait too long, and they simply cannot save you. Think of the emotional and economic impact of your demise. Don't stay at home.

Of course, you think that this is a conspiracy that I've made up simply to popularize my website. Well think again. It has just been revealed that HMG's Department of Works & Pensions has lost 17 out of 134 discrimination cases against its own disabled workers, during the period 2016 to 2019, paying out 950,000 pounds. Meanwhile the Centre for Women's Justice claims that police forces across the UK have failed to investigate properly accusations against their own police officers, accused of domestic abuse, including rape. They have now submitted a super-complaint to the Chief Inspector of Constabularies. And of course there are all those politicians, who in recent years, have been sacked from their party for making racist remarks. They have clearly crawled out from under a rock, to be elected by a naive electorate into positions of great responsibility. So now you know what our politicians and senior civil servants really think, about us. Of course its all done through innuendo, a nod and a wink. There's no paper trail. Oh dear, how sad, never mind. I don't think SPECTRE could have done better. (Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion). With base rates of interest at rock bottom, how else do you save the blood sucking capitalist system that they all secretly admire? MPs recently got a rise in office running costs and extended holidays. They are on a roll in the pleasure Palace of Westminster. Well, all I can say to that is, that I just hope that when the Covid-19 grim reaper arrives, no amount of blood splattered onto the door posts of these supercilious or racist (Islamophobic v antisemitic) party members is going to prevent them from meeting their maker. Passover is in April. In the wake of this mass dying, house prices may fall slightly as a result, but since we already have a shortage in the UK, they should not fall too far. The situation for second and retirement homes in Spain, etcetera is likely to be far more dramatic, many having not fully recovered from the US subprime mortgages scandal which started in 2007.

8...No gathering of people. Well that just about covers everything that a police state needs, doesn't it? No mention of illegal gatherings at Benidorm, Magaluf or Ayia Napa. Apparently, in the government's mind, holidays come before funerals, whilst MP's want their foreign holidays, and la dolce vita no matter what. Some countries like Iran, Italy and France have a culture that involves kissing on both cheeks when two people meet, whilst in the Far East, people tend to live in very densely populated areas that, like ocean liners, enable the swift transmission of viruses and bacteria. Italy has the second highest proportion of elderly citizens in the world, whilst Italians like to haggle over items at their local market, no doubt influenced by the glorious weather promoting a desire to communicate, rather than shop over the internet, which may well explain the high infection and mortality rates there. And of course the drinking of the blood of Christ (consecrated wine) at mass on a Saturday or Sunday evening, is an easy way to become infected. As a result, these countries have high levels of Covid-19 infection and death. Evidently HMG doesn't care how many kisses our holidaying members of parliament receive, from women, men or children. For most British people, greeting through physical contact is not common, not even a handshake, although some TV compares have tried to instil it in us. Will the government tell them to desist, and edit such scenes from repeats? The destruction of the family ethos, plus the gloomy British climate have instilled a sense of gloom among us, which definitely inhibits a warm welcoming smile, plus bodily contact. Many British are an introvert lot, lacking empathy, whilst many of us live on our own. With little personal contact, this is why this epidemic has not become a pandemic in the UK thus far. Maybe this epidemic will teach us what is truly valuable in life. Whatever that is, I and many others of my generation, never found it.

Travel agents will not be told to substitute foreign holidays with educational coach tours in the UK, including trips to museums, stately homes, the theatre, fun fairs, tours of safari parks, nature reserves, factories producing cutting edge products (to stimulate the desire amongst the unemployed to work) and paint balling on the army assault course, to provide that long awaited physical exercise. And HMG will not provide TV lectures on venereal disease and birth control, at a time when many, with time on their hands, are thinking about sex. There will be no lectures on the pros and cons of contraceptives, and of course no lectures on healthy eating to prevent obesity. It amounts to a missed mind blowing exercise in positive thinking, that's long overdue. It will be an opportunity lost. Alternatively, HMG simply says, you can come and go as you please, but you can't gather. We are an island. The sea is a natural barrier. It is our first line of defence and always has been, but HMG simply refuses to take advantage of that fact. It's pathetic and prophetic isn't it? Soon after the start of this incident, it becomes clear that airlines are cancelling flights, not because HMG has ordered it as they might spread Covid-19, but because their own customers have elected to stay at home. To put it bluntly, it appears that the general public have a better sense of understanding and responsibility than HMG has. All these ministers sitting around that long table in Downing Street, (like headless chickens?) can't come up with a better plan. Have they come up with a secret plan to save themselves? There should definitely be created a secret bunker for the intelligentsia, plus database of everything, for the day a pandemic really does have all our names on it. For politicians, there appears to be little or no incentive to defeat this coronavirus. None of them will be vilified live on TV and fired. None will be impeached, if only because it would take too long. None of them will be arrested for incompetence or criminal negligence, and they know it.

Something has just occurred to me, and it's this. When a doctor wants to find out about a coronavirus, all they have to do is look it up on their NHS computer, and the software app will give them all the symptoms of a whole range of viruses, lethality, safety measures, treatment, etc. In government however, I'm willing to bet that there's no such program. Since ministers are likely only to be in the job one year, there does need to be expert systems software that lists how these infections and pandemics were handled in the past, resources needed, technology being developed, list of relevant organisations, what methods succeeded, what failed and why, etc. It should be capable of simulations. A government department should be devoted to maintaining and expanding this database to cover all contingencies. As it is, if the above preparations turn out to be excessive, then at least it will be good training for next time. So where is HMG's disaster management department?

March 9th, 2020...125 billion pounds wiped off London stockmarket (FTSE). Covid-19 infection now exponential. Liverpool verses Madrid was the last football match played in UK before the lockdown. Considered spreader of Covid-19. Computer modelers from London & Edinburgh meet at Department of Health HQ to discuss Covid-19 predictions. Italian government imposes total lockdown. It's another Black Monday. Oil prices are down 20 to 30% due to falling demand as factories close, whilst Russia and Saudi Arabia can't come to an agreement on production levels. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is suspended for fifteen minutes soon after opening, as the index falls 7%, in line with falls on the Asian and UK stockmarkets. The Nikkei and Hang Seng fell over one thousand points each over night. The day before, I had instructed my unit trust to sell off my remaining shares. The next day the FTSE 100 fell 8%, a fall of 125 billion pounds. Norwegian Air has cancelled 3,00 flights over four months, whilst Virgin Atlantic complain that they have to fly empty planes across the Atlantic Ocean, so that they don't lose their take off and landing slots at airports. HMG complains to the European Commission on the subject. The Geneva International Motor Show is cancelled. Event organizer Informa has to cancel 128 events, since stands don't know whether there will be travel restrictions. Sports events are held without spectators. The global economy appears to be imploding. God knows how much I'll get for my shares. Won't know until this Saturday. I gladly inherited this money, only to be lumbered with a circumstance that is clearly out of my control. I find the whole affair depressing, and I don't normally suffer from depression. It's clear that people are looking for competent political leaders that inspire. Alarmingly, worldwide there appears to be none. Northern Italy, including the cities of Milan and Venice are in lockdown. The next day the Italian government puts the entire country in lockdown after 133 die in one day making total 366 dead. Its citizens play music, do aerobics, play bingo and sing opera on their balconies. It may not be long before most of our planet suffers a similar fate. The UK now has more infections per day than the PRC, which now only counts confirmed genetic test results. Are these results accurate? Only time will tell. How much time? Virologists announce that Covid-19 maybe reacting with another virus in people that succumb. If this pathogen can be identified, and it proves easy to kill off, then maybe this pandemic can be terminated much earlier than previously anticipated.

You may like to ask yourself the question, 'why has it taken so long for parliament and government to recognise Covid-19 as a threat to our way of life?' The PRC government must take part of the blame. However, it does beggar the question, 'why didn't our embassy, consulate, NGOs or MI6 know?' Also, why has it taken five to six weeks for HMG in Whitehall to wake up to this? Presumably the PM has a medical advisor. Presumably the World Health Organization, part of the UN, and Centre for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA informed governments. There must be a public enquiry, with no stone left unturned. Of course it won't really happen. The enquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire and deaths has already been watered down, with witnesses apparently offered freedom from prosecution in return for their co-operation in the witness stand. It appears that the only solution will come from a mass demonstration in Whitehall and Westminster lasting months, bringing central London and HMG to a standstill. It is the duty of government to serve the people, not screw it up. Recent reports in newspapers, suggest that the UK's National Health Service is not coping. In the USA, the national guard seal off a small town called New Rochelle, just one mile north of New York city, which has been found to be a hot bed of Covid-19. The Vatican closes off St. Peter's Square and basilica. It's announced that HMG's Health Secretary Nadine Dorries has Covid-19. Life is beginning to play out like a disaster movie.

March 10th, 2020...The four day Cheltenham Festival horse racing event goes ahead before lockdown. Considered spreader of Covid-19.

March 11th, 2020...Pandemic declared by WHO. HM Treasury budget speech. 30 billion pound allocated for Coronavirus and NHS. In UK 8 dead by Covid-19. Stockmarkets worldwide continue to fall.

March 12th, 2020...HMG abandons search for Covid-19 carriers (test, trace, isolate). The world's stock markets are falling off a cliff. Markets in New York city have been stopped automatically for the second time in a week, following President Trump's announcement of travel between the USA and EU being suspended, which was no doubt brought on by WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyeses' announcement that Covid-19 is now considered officially to be a pandemic, because he was deeply concerned by alarming levels of inaction. My view was that the coronavirus is here and will probably infect most of us. A vaccine or cure is unlikely to reach us in time. We must all be thankful that it's nowhere near as lethal as SARS. But it's clear that many people were not as impressed as I was with the previous day's announcement, namely the budget speech in the House of Commons by Chancellor Rishi Sunak. I liked both the presentation and its content, which supported a home economy and more finance for scientific research and development. It was a 600 billion pound investment in the nation, spread over five years. Will environmentalists take HMG to court over their proposed highway improvement plans? Covid-19 infected and dead in the UK are 460 and 8, world wide it is 120,000 and 4,296 respectively.

March 13th, 2020...PM Boris Johnson reveals adoption of herd immunity to Italian PM Giuseppe Conti in phone call, says Pierpaolo Sileri, a health minister, in a Channel 4 despatches interview. Policy will lead to tens of thousands of additional deaths in UK. Adoption of herd immunity is denied by HMG.

March 16th, 2020...Offers of batch blood testing by UK research laboratories ignored by HMG. Researchers at Imperial College submit another Covid-19 report stating estimated deaths will be half a million. UK's prime minister makes social distancing speech on TV. And the airports, sea ports and channel tunnel have still not been closed by HMG to passengers. However the USG has banned flights to the EU and UK, whilst airlines close down due to non-existent passengers. HMG says it's considering putting the over 70s in self isolation for four months. It amounts to age discrimination. What am I going to do for four months, watch all those repeats on Freeview, plus lingering gazes at smiling Nicole on Babecall? The stockmarkets continue to fall through the floor. It's clear investors have no confidence in government. Reducing base rates and handing out billions for God knows what, is clearly not going to restore order in the markets. This is not fake news. It is a measure of confidence in our multi-party democracies worldwide. Maybe our military should shoot a few ministers and their advisors, what? I think it's about time I told you how this pandemic should have been handled.

The sequence of events should have been as follows:

1...The World Health Organization was set up to prevent pandemics. It is an offshoot of the United Nations. The Centre for Disease Control would receive samples, on a continuous basis, from labs in all countries, from people who have been infected with any disease. The WHO would manage the logistics. Governments would take orders from the WHO.

2...Any indication of an epidemic and the affected area would be sealed off, if necessary by UN forces, and medical staff flown in. There would be a closure of airports and seaports and borders of the infected country. Persons leaving the area during the previous month would be traced, interned for two weeks and examined. Centres involving spectators and other large groups of people, would be cancelled or postponed. Tracker apps on mobile phones would be examined and all people that have been in contact with the infected persons, along with their contacts, would be quarantined.

3...If the infection cannot be contained, then the entire world will be placed in quarantine. The entire capitalist system will be shut down. All financial institutions, stock markets and businesses, including supermarkets and corner shops, will be shut down, except for food production, health, communications, utilities. No one will be paid during the lockdown, including those in emergency services, whilst rents, mortgages, etc. will be suspended. Martial law will apply. Necessary personnel will be conscripted to work in these areas, along with any necessary auxiliary roles, including cleaning, without payment. Meals / food will be delivered to your door as every non-essential person engages in self isolation. To ensure that you get the necessary help, you will have to communicate via the WHO pandemic website. By using government data (voting register, utility websites, community charge, driving licence, supermarket, doctor) WHO will know how many people live at your address and what your medical and nutritional needs are. That way there will be no food stockpiling. No empty supermarket shelves to fear in a just in time agricultural environment. All of this will have been agreed at the UN years in advance.

There is an alternative to shutting down the capitalist system, and that is for everyone who goes out to shop or work, to wear a bio-hazard suit. Mass produced they would make economic sense, whilst they could no doubt be made visually attractive. Whether people could put up with wearing them all day, remains to be seen. No doubt factories and offices could create clean zones, thereby allowing their removal. Air filters would need regular replacement, whilst visits to social events would present a challenge. Visits to a concert for instance, would no doubt require a personal speaker system be fitted inside the helmet, much like the hard of hearing use today. Outgoing verbal communication may have to be supplemented by a visual display projected inside the helmet, whilst meals and refreshments, like my pint of lager, may all have to be sucked up a disposable straw. How romantic.

4...When there have been no new cases for at least two weeks and all infected persons have been cured and vaccinated, then the restrictions can be removed and the capitalist system restarted.

Simple isn't it. A school kid could have put this together. So why wasn't it? USA v Russia; PRC v Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia; EU v UK; India v Pakistan; Israel v Palestine; terrorist incidents in the middle east & sub-Sahara Africa; and of course governments that are governments in name only. You just know that it's never going to happen until an intelligent world order, a world technocracy, is created. Well maybe one day, when enough people have been won over by this website, we can have a global referendum on the matter. Until then, many people are simply going to have to lie down and die.

March 17th, 2020...Most lockdowns begin. Pound stirling falls 3%, greatest fall in 34 years. USG signs defence production act. Holiday makers leaving the Austrian ski resort of Ischgl pass on Covid-19 infections to 45 countries. Report only becomes available in October 2020.

March 18th, 2020...According to an article on the bbc.co.uk news website, HMG wants 20,000 medical ventilators within about four to six weeks time. Hospital ventilators, like those made by Philips, Draeger, Penlon and General Electric tend to be complex and expensive, costing at least $25,000. Eventually the vacuum cleaner company Dyson and the ship propulsion company Babcock were each awarded contracts in the UK to make ten thousand units. Ford, General Motors, Tesla and NASA in the USA, plus CERN in Europe, also provided designs and or production capability. A cheaper alternative that does not require the patient to be comatosed is extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECO). In this process the patients blood has oxygen added to it , whilst carbon dioxide is removed. A cheaper alternative was being developed by Mercedes Formulae One and the University College London Hospital called CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), which pumps oxygen continuously to a patient who can still breath, by employing a tight fitting full face mask, when staff at Warrington Hospital came up with an even cheaper design. This is based upon a black control box originally used to treat sleep apnoea (the patient stops breathing whilst asleep). Fluid in the lungs is shifted when a nurse vibrates the lungs of a conscious patient through patting on the back, causing fluid in the lungs to drain to its lowest point, which is then sucked out by another nurse, whilst the patient inhales oxygen, which stops the lungs from collapsing. This operation is repeated at regular intervals. These machines can be operated from home by the patient. The quest for even cheaper alternatives continues. Evidently someone in Italy used a 3D printer to make 100 respirator valves in 24 hours. These last 8 hours and cost 90p. The prototype took just 3 hours to design and make. In Colombia a ventilator is being developed that is run by Raspberry Pi computer, with open software by Marco Mascorro. To assemble these ventilators, all you need is a small conveyor, work benches, pneumatic tools, etc., plus CNC machines and press tools. These ventilators need to be cheap, as they are likely to be shipped off to Africa, once our medical needs have been satisfied, never to be seen again. The technology moved so fast that Dyson eventually pulled out. Companies that wish to take part should contact HMG's Department of BEIS: ventilator.support@beis.gov.uk

From the 1980s to 2007 local Chamber of Commerce were telling manufacturing companies to relocate to eastern Europe or the far east. This was part of the Conservative Party's ideology. They reasoned that since half the recommended retail price of a product came from warehouse, maintenance and retail costs, all of which could be taxed, it would be better to have the products made in the third world, where the jobs would effectively expand the global economy, and where the industrial pollution and trade union militancy could be shifted. This simplistic economics is known as Reaganomics in the USA and monetarism in the UK. There are however drawbacks. The obvious one is that it destroys millions of careers in the developed world, but it also increases the cost of living. If your country eventually becomes dependent upon imports (not food), the cost of those products or services increases because there is no competition from home based concerns. The most obvious example of which is when both Saudi Arabia and the UK bought AWACs from the USA. The UK price was really low because at the time it had a competing product (Nimrod AEW). Today the UK has numerous factories, but they tend to only make processed foods. Much of the technology that goes into them is imported. Hence the UK's higher education system cannot teach IT (Information Technology) effectively because it's all foreign. This is why the NHS has to pay a fortune for products like medical ventilators. The USG is now turning its back on Reaganomics, with the introduction of high import tariffs, in order to generate jobs at home. Will HMG follow suit? The economic down turn of 2007, created by sub-prime mortgages in the USA, which led to intense distrust between banks, is still with us, with interest rates at rock bottom. Add to that the present economic earthquake, and there is simply no way of predicting how we will get out of this mess, nor how long it will take. One of the biggest unknowns is that of the customer. Just how will they react when the lockdown comes to an end?

Also on the BBC website can be seen graphs showing stockmarket performance. They make depressing viewing with no salvation in sight. Airlines, car factories, travel agents, sport venues and now pubs, cinemas and restaurants are closing down. They're closing because the government has asked people not to travel, but stay at home. This indirect closure means that businesses are not compensated. Governments are preparing to hand out billions to businesses in the form of loans. $100 billion aid to businesses in USA, with $1 trillion to US citizens being considered. Whilst HMG has decided to lend 350 billion pounds to firms. But businesses can see no way of paying it back. Like investors in the stockmarket, governments are panicking. The investors want normality, and they want it now. They have no idea what companies and currencies will survive. At worst, the global economy will be wiped out, replaced by a barter system in a new dark age. Immunoglobolin G & A antibody test kits, cures and vaccines. It's all beginning to sound like a world where governments and politicians are replaced by wizards, shaman and druids. A step into the unknown.

March 23rd, 2020...UK lockdown begins. Staff at Church Farm at Skylarks, West Bridgeford, Nottingham, UK, led by Maria Spollin, impose isolation techniques on thirteen dementia patients and their support staff, after some contract Covid-19. The communal lounge is converted into a ward, whilst all bedding is replaced regularly. One month later, they have all survived. Lack of professionalism and determination ensured that that was not to be at many care homes around the world.

March 24th, 2020...A news story from Spain described a fire service that had found elderly folk abandoned in a care home, in which some had died in bed. On TV I watched secrets of the Black Death on the PBS America channel. I had seen it before on BBC Timewatch I think, years before. Watching it made me realise how little had been learned in medical science in the past six hundred years or more, when it came to pandemics. It made me cry, and left me unprepared for what was to come. That evening I read through my emails. The last one caught my eye immediately. It was from my brother's son, Brent, sent via an organisation of which I was a member, requesting my contact details. I sent him my details and waited for a response. The next afternoon the telephone rang. Apparently my younger brother, Stephen, had died the previous Friday from cancer of the stomach. He had kept the problem to himself, including an operation he had for it. I always thought I would die before him. Due to the pandemic, he had been cremated without ceremony. A church service would follow months later, possibly a year or more, from now. I realised that he would never read my website. I decided that I should publish it now, or else no one would read it. The incident made me feel very vulnerable. I would have to see my GP and get tested for stomach cancer. I normally told my brother of my medical problems. Decades ago I had suffered from helicobacter pylori infection of the stomach, and was told that it was suspected to be a cause of cancer. After one week on antibiotics I was cured. Unfortunately I had omitted to tell my brother about it.