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Can The Man In The Coronavirus Mask save America?

Losing disgracefully was always going to be President Donnie’s reaction to coming second in a two-horse race. Unfortunately, the more The Orange One fails to recognise Denial is not a river in Egypt, the more Americans are going to be swept away by COVID-19’s rampage across the land of the free.  The Trump to Biden transition is like no other in history. Time is literally against the incoming Biden administration. The longer Donald obsesses about being a victim of a rigged election, the more of his fellow Americans aren’t going to see Christmas this year.  With Coronavirus claiming over 1,000 American lives every day, pleas from Biden’s team and groups of public health experts are getting increasingly desperate. The U.S. is heading towards a humanitarian crisis within its own borders with 11 million confirmed infections and a death toll that’s heading towards 250,000!  Doctor Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert and subject to many a Trump verbal attack,...

COVID-America goes postal!

Tonight, Americans go to the polls, care of the United States Postal Service. The right will vote for another four years of President Trump, while the left of right will vote for other old white guy. Will this unique, pandemic postal vote prove fatal for the Orange one? We are hours away from finding out.  While election day is nearly upon us, COVID-19 has been surreptitiously sweeping through Red and Blues States in a most unbiased manner. The big question is, can the average Joe and Joanna in Main Street, U.S. vote fairly, without exposing themselves to the dangers of an indiscriminate killer.  November 3rd will see America’s fate, decided by a record number of votes cast by mail. Ballots have been distributed by a number of states to everyone eligible to vote. This Herculean task, labelled the ‘Postal Experiment’, is proving popular with voters, with almost 2/3rds saying they’d vote using them. Predictably, President Donald’s not buying it, referring to the postal vote as a...

DON’T follow the COVID-19 Leaders!

President Donald J Trump (the J obviously stands for genius), is not the first world leader to come a Coronavirus cropper. After months of downplaying the threat of COVID-19, Karma paid the Orange Man in the White House a visit. Both he and his sultry First Lady, have been diagnosed with the virus. Which is kinda ironic just as COVID-19 clocked up 1 million deaths, worldwide.  Donald’s brush with the COVID Reaper couldn’t have come at a better or worse time, depending on how the Washington spin doctors decide to spin it. With the President behind Joe Biden in every poll, the U.S. Presidential Election is less than a month away. Trump’s America not only finds itself in the grip of a deadly pandemic but is experiencing economic and racial meltdown. To say nothing of the daily Sitcom playing out in the Supreme Court.  Will Trump emerge from his hospital bed weaker or stronger in the eyes of the American people? A tough guy, smack bang in the middle of the cross-hairs of a deadly ...

How in the Coronavirus World are you?

Who's over COVID19? Who's had enough of masks, comical fist bump/handshakes, while going stir-crazy with caged-up kids and other halves? The trouble is, this pesky strain of Coronavirus won't go away quietly. To defeat it, we the human race have to get the number of COVID19 cases to zero. Yes zero. Everywhere.  The thing about viruses is that they don't do border control. They spread faster than toupees in a hurricane. The Spanish Flu of 1918 reached remote islands within months, without the aid of modern air travel. In fact, all it needed to travel was air itself. So, it's down to us to stop COVID19 from returning again and again, like an unwelcome uncle who seems to crash permanently on your sofa. The really tricky thing about COVID19 is that the total number of cases isn’t known. Only cases confirmed by a Coronavirus test are actually known. Databases are being built so that visualisations of the curve can explain if we humans are making progress. The only way to...

Pandemic + Election = Troompa Loompa Implosion?

There’s a school of thought Stateside that all Joe Biden need do to win in 2020, is light Donald Trump’s fuse and step well back. Some political observers think Joe might not even need to do that. That master of ‘cool’, the 44 th  President Barack Obama has given some advice to his former Vice-President. Keep speeches, interviews and tweets short and sweet. Calmness will win the day. Due to his 77-years, Joe is libel to a few verbal slips and some mind wandering moments that send his advisers into a tale-spin. Recently he gaffed that 125 million Americans had died from COVID19, when he meant to say 125,000. Compare that to the everyday carnage of Trump’s Presidency, with screws visibly loosening and daily temper tantrums indicating implosion is always imminent. So, the word on Pennsylvania Avenue is for Joe to keep his cool, drink plenty of water and avoid any more mistakes, that make him look decrepit. The fact that the Coronavirus has claimed 125,000 American lives is really hurt...

Can CoronAmerica resist the narcissist?

On November 3 rd  2020, surviving COVID19 Americans will decide between a creepy, forgetful Septuagenarian weird, uncle figure and a Septuagenarian racist, pussy-grabbing, misogynist with an Olympian Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Donald J Trump has consistently displayed all the classic symptoms of NPD, for four long years. The  Freudian  checklist for Donald’s chronic narcissism will begin to sound familiar very quickly. First does the 45th   President possess a grandiose sense of self-importance? Does the Pope do number twos in the woods? Arrogant, vain with a relentless sense of his own superiority, (‘I have the best words’). Trump is the most malignant Narcissist since Herr Hitler. From the day Donnie first threw his toys out of the Trump gold-plated  perambulator , he’s been ‘special’. We, after all are lucky to have him. Does Donald live in a fantasy world that supports his titanic delusions of grandeur? Again, Pope Francis is back in the woods d...

Sorry Coronavirus, Tech don’t do lockdown!

To paraphrase William ‘Braveheart’ Wallace, COVID19 may take our lives but it will never take...OUR TECHNOLOGY! This nasty strain of Coronavirus has knocked mankind for six, whisking many of us off to meet our makers but Tech, like rust never sleeps. Humanity’s innate ingenuity will always find a way to shine, even in the darkest of times. Unsurprisingly the Digital Age we live in has come to the fore, allowing business and life in general to get back to some semblance of normality. Or as we now call it in Brave New Coronavirus World the ‘new normal’. These digital wonders are literally propping up our daily lives. Techno tools that are proving essential in keeping us moving forward and not grinding to a shuddering halt.   This leap in technology during COVID19 has gathered real momentum. We all need to be in a permanent state of digital readiness. Staying current to whatever technology dreams up next, will not only be essential to a business but to the country that business is lo...

COVID Conspiracy Theories spread faster than COVID19!

Trying to make sense of the car crash that is 2020, is a tricky business. Which is why conspiracy theories are born. From a laboratory manufactured bioweapon to tracker vaccines, that know what you had for breakfast. One man’s conspiracy theory is a trillion men’s misinformation. Clutching at straws is what human beings do, when our world is in meltdown. In writing this piece I do not wish to trivialise the gravity of the situation we find ourselves in. The very nature of Social Media and the light speed a rumour, falsehood or fabrication, can whizz around the globe is frightening. I sincerely urge you to stay safe by continuing to practice good hygiene and physical distancing. As well as avoiding public gatherings and by isolating yourself, if need be. It’s a tough call but these are tough times. So, in no particular order here are some of the more colourful Coronavirus conspiracies that are nuttier than Secret Squirrel doo-doo. First, as I’ve already mentioned, features a swarthy ...

Latin CoronAmerica?

If you think where you live has been hit hard by COVID19, spare a thought for the poor people of Latin America. Cases of Coronavirus have been rising acutely. Back in May I wrote about COVID19 outbreaks in Brazil. If anything, things have got worse, with over 3 million confirmed cases of Coronavirus. Second only to Trump's America. It doesn’t get much better when you look elsewhere in the region. Picture a league table of the Top 10 COVID19 countries in the world, 5 of them would be Latin American. Mexico, Chile, Columbia and Peru, now join Brazil in having major outbreaks, with each country’s hospitals, groaning under the influx of new cases. It was thought that the first confirmed Latin American case occurred in Brazil back in February. Recently evidence has emerged that the first cases actually occurred in January. The virus seems to have found exactly the right conditions to thrive and flourish. Spreading down through Central to South America, while racking up over 5 millio...