Excuse me not joining in the celebrations re the new 'vaccine.' I am of course glad a start has been made but the question is can it be real? I am sure the people behind it are confident of the worth of the product, I do not doubt their integrity, but even the man from the Health Dept appeared to indicate it was not a cure.
I remain ignorant of the details, deliberately so, facts have never influenced my opinion anyway, that is a family trait, but the Coronovirus is a highly complicated virus, one man claimed he had found 40 different aspects of the things, and it appears to me this vaccine may be just a beginning, not a cure. Of course I hope it works, we all do, but Boris and his announcements are always Balloons! There is nothing this man says that stands up to scrutiny and while there may be merit in the vaccine soon to be on offer I will be wary like many others.
You may not have noticed but this man Biden is now President of the United States. Or at least almost President. The cack-handed US political system makes it difficult to become President without several Billionaires backing you, the vote is spread over days, if not weeks, and the US forces serving abroad must be taken in to account also. Eventually a man appears to win, however the absurd 'Electoral College' then decide who the President ought to be, not the voters. Once he has been named in November (Surely it will always be a 'He?' Look at the mess women have made of the UK system) he then has to wait until January, in the cold, to take his place. This year of course the sulking schoolboy will be attempting to remain in place via the courtroom while he himself wanders around a golf course. One day democracy will arrive in the US.
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I'd say Johnson is worse than May and Thatcher put together. Just my opinion of course. On a brighter note I really laughed at the picture of Palletland!
It is a very weird electoral system, over complicated.
Jenny, You would not be considered wrong.
Dave, The idea is to protect the public, in the end the rich/powerful decide.
The more I read about the history of how the American electoral system operates the more it resembles my father's inter war tales of 'Vote early, vote often' when the dead would rise from their graves.
At least Tammany Hall was an entity you could recognise and, if like Roosevelt, get to grips with, but these computerised voting systems seem to me to be open to glitches which can be fatal...look at the mess the IT geniuses can make of our laptops and say no more!
Fly, I think Dominics frinds also help out in the US...
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