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Once a liar and a cheat always
from Edition 231
by WXPG.com
…from the side of the bus till now
After some 3 years, my daughter finally managed to make use of the time off work to come and visit us, her parents on the Costa del Sol, for just a couple of days.
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We were getting ready to go and pick her up at the airport when she phoned us from her airport saying that she may have to cancel the flight because the UK was imposing an immediate 14 days quarantine on all returning from Spain. She was concerned at the likelihood of losing her job when getting back to UK for having to stay off work for a further two weeks.
It was a point of no return, a choice between losing her flight and taking a chance on her return. Fortunately her employers were very understanding and confirmed her job was safe.
What a stupid thing to do! At the time there were more than 100,000 UK nationals visiting Spain on their holidays now worrying about their jobs and their business upon their return home. And they say the unemployment figure is growing by the day?
But we are also talking of the announcement being made at the end of July, when an estimated two million more people had already booked and paid for their August summer holiday in Spain.
It all sounds quite plausible when they say it was done for the safety of the nation to ensure that travellers were clean on their return, in reality it is definitely idiotic when it is the UK that has the greater problem with the corona virus. As the Spanish PM stated it is safer to be in Spain than in the UK.
It seems like an attempt to cause deliberate damage to the Spanish economy which depends on tourism, especially when the restriction was imposed to include the Canary Islands (miles away from Spain) but to exclude Gibraltar right next to the Costa del Sol.
I think this really goes to show how incompetent is the present UK government, not only have they shown they are incapable of managing the control of their pandemic but they continue causing problems to their own economy with airlines, airport and tour operators pushing a lot further up their own unemployment figures. What is even more pathetic is that now they blame the corona virus for the and damage to the economy created by Brexit with the massive losses suffered by the value of the pound, companies closing down, foreign manufacturers closing down and moving to the EU.
I really fail to see the wisdom in abandoning the largest and most convenient market right on the doorstep to go and look for deals across oceans and continent that serve no real advantages, and possibly even offer disadvantages.
It is interesting to learn that the research from the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy at Warwick University found that the parts of the UK with high levels of low-skilled and manufacturing employment have underperformed most since 2016. These are the areas that also heavily voted Leave in the EU referendum. It does seem to raise the question about irregularities with the referendum.
As an additional note I would like to quote Anna Feuchtwang, the chair of End Child Poverty, who (referring to Boris Johnson) said: - “It is deeply insulting
to the children and families swept into poverty, when data about them is used selectively and misleadingly at the whim of politicians. The simple fact is that by any measures child poverty is rising, but instead of tackling the problem, the government risks obscuring the issue and
misinforming the public.” The Guardian
Did you know that..?
World population set to decline. The global population is set to shrink by the year 2100, and nations need to start preparing for the economic implications, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Fertility rates have fallen, thanks in part to women’s greater access to education and contraception, and the researchers’ projection suggests that by 2100 populations in some countries could shrink by more than half. Globally, there would be twice as many people over 80 as under five, posing questions about how countries pay for aging populations, with migration likely to become essential. The Guardian
WFH isn’t working for 100m
people. Some 100 million workers in 35 countries are more vulnerable to job losses and pay cuts due to the pandemic as it is not possible to remote work in their roles, a recent IMF study found. Women and lowincome employees disproportionately make up a big portion of hard-hit sectors like food service and hospitality, while young workers and those without degrees are also more likely to work in jobs requiring in-person work. This could widen existing inequalities around the world, making more urgent the need to close the digital divide and retrain workers, the IMF warned. New York Times
Personal standards slip during lockdown.
Suspicion that people are letting some standards slip in lockdown has been confirmed by Unilever: it says worldwide sales of personal grooming products such as shampoo have fallen significantly in the past few weeks, and that it suspects sales of deodorant are going to be lower than normal too. On the other hand, its cleaning products are flying off the shelves. Financial
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The link between COVID-19 and obesity.
Government scientists are investigating whether Britain’s high death toll is the result of the obesity crisis after it emerged that the proportion of severely obese patients in intensive care with CV-19 is twice the proportion of servery obese people in the general population. With that in mind, here’s how to work out your BMI. Divide your weight in kilograms by your height (in metres) squared. So if you are 180cm tall and weigh 80kiliograms (like me), your body mass index (BMI) is 80/ (1.80²)=24.7. A healthy BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9; between 25 and 29.9 means you are overweight; 30-39.9 is obese; 40+ is morbidly obese. Editor The key to staying optimistic. Maintaining hope can serve as a powerful antidote to stress during hard times. In addition to showing compassion to ourselves and others and paying attention to everyday activities we enjoy, we must create space for our negative thoughts to fully embrace optimism. Optimism is not about putting our heads in the sand, but finding a way to sit with both the good and the bad. Editor
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