Slavery Lasted 400 years, So Why The Protests Against COVID 19 Lockdown For Some Few Days?

 

Protesters against coronavirus lockdown in the Netherlands

The coronavirus lockdown is provoking many people that want their freedom around the world, despite the high rate of COVID 19 infections in recent times.  Hence, many people worldwide, including the Netherlands, not satisfied with the lockdown rules to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, took to the streets protesting.

There is no one who doesn’t like the taste of sweet freedom because as humans, people are not interested in laws and rules that will confine them to one place. Frankly speaking, freedom is more effective than any medicine as it prevents loneliness, depression, any psychological problems, including the tendencies of committing suicide.

 

Even animals and birds like freedom, since many are fed up being kept in the zoo. Even in a cage, a bird may seem happy whistling and hopping around, yet open the cage for that bird and you will see the full force of flight that bird will be applied to escape into the air without looking back.

 

There was much unrest through Europe, including London, over the lockdown. In Eindhoven, one of the cities in Holland, protesters set fires and threw missiles at the police against the lockdown measures, while the police fought to control the situation with tear gas and water cannons, leading to the arrest of at least 55 people.

 

Many times, I keep wondering if people that have never suffered slavery, racism, colonial brutalities, the Apartheid form of government, and the handicapped by deliberate infection of diseases, understand the situation of people that have experienced such tragedies and bitter experiences of black history.

 

Africans were captured and sold as slaves in the most degrading and horrifying manner that lasted 400 years before abolition, yet today we are witnessing carnage, destruction, crimes against the authorities because they want people to obey the laws implemented to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.

 

How sincere and thoughtful are we as human beings? You, in life many don’t care about other people's sufferings because they are not the victims. Selfishness, greed, lies, and hypocrisy are some of the ailments that shut down the brain of human beings to be considerate to think about the well-being of other people.

 

If black people have survived slavery, Apartheid horrors, and colonial atrocities that lasted for decades, why some people always want to break the rule and find it difficult to survive a lockdown for some few days to prevent the spread of a disease that will benefit us?

The truth is in life if you haven't been through certain difficulties, you wouldn't have the experience to accept certain rules for your own benefit. People often don't care about the tragedies that fall on other people but the reality is whatever goes around, always comes around.

The situation about the coronavirus is hard to understand. We don't see people getting ill or falling on the streets, yet we hear of people dying each day by COVID 19. Whether what those health experts are telling us is true or false, we must obey the rules and see what happens

THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

COVID-19has decimated the world

Like Belgium, Italy, and Spain, the deadly coronavirus impact has changed lives, shut down businesses, and laid off many workers, monopolizing political debate in the United Kingdom from the time the disease emerged.

The coronavirus, which doesn’t discriminate, has also affected the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who, according to the British media, is in intensive care, but his health remains stable.

The Prime Minister contracted the disease on the evening of April 5, forcing him to be hospitalized, on which the Queen, Elizabeth II, also spoke to the nation. 

To observe how the British opinion has evolved on the emergency and who is managing it, two opinion polls were compared to deal with this issue in depth.

The first survey was conducted in mid-March, between the 12th and 13th, when the number of infected people reached 800, with 10 deaths. 

Just on the evening of March 12, Boris Johnson gives an intervention in which he says that many will lose their loved ones and that no restrictive measures like the Italian ones are foreseen.

The second survey was carried out at the end of the month, between 26 and 27 March, which was a few days after implementing the lockdown. 

On the morning of March 27, in addition, the prime minister announced that he was positive for coronavirus, while the infections approached the 15,000 threshold, with over 750 deaths.

In late March, 88% of Britons said they were worried about the epidemic, 15 points higher than two weeks earlier. The elders appear a little more concerned than the younger ones.

However, the voters of the major opposition parties are more concerned than the conservative voters, but there are no particularly clear differences.

Like other countries, to avoid the spread of the virus, London experienced lockdown, making the streets virtually empty and unnaturally silent. 

However, according to 'WorldOMeter,' an international team of developers and researchers providing world statistics of the pandemics, the United Kingdom has so far registered 73,758 cases and 8,958 deaths, and 344 patients have recovered.


Update: April 12, 2020

The UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.

For the second day in a row, more than 900 deaths were recorded in hospitals. The latest figures come as the prime minister has told friends he owes his life to the NHS staff who treated him in hospital for COVID-19.

Boris Johnson is expected to spend the coming weeks resting and recovering and will not rush his return to work.

SCOTT HASTIE's 'MEDITATIONS' INSPIRATIONAL POEMS OF WISDOM

Scott Hastie

Scott Hastie is an author and poet based in the Hertfordshire countryside, which is only a thirty-minute commuter ride from London. 


The village where he lives and works is also only a mile or so from a key junction onto the M25, which offers fast access to the capital’s four principal airports at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, and London Luton.

Born in Edinburgh, Scott Hastie was brought up and educated in Berkhamsted before college studies in Brighton. Several small press editions of Scott Hastie’s poetry first appeared in the early 1970s, at a time when he was also editor of the college magazine for Sussex University and Brighton Polytechnic (1974–75)

These early anthologies prefaced the first substantial hardback collection of his work, Selected Poetry (1991), which soon found a core audience with its broadly romantic themes, celebrating love and the beauty of the natural world. 

“To write and sell poetry at a profit these days is a minor victory and a major achievement.” Scott’s words gently unlock and force you to face and look at the world with a little more optimism. There are moments of deep joy and others that take your breath away with simply incredible honesty.

Life is a complicated journey with happiness, mystery, and sadness. At times, we need inspirational poems to help us renew ourselves and be filled with the strength to fulfill our life's purpose. 

That’s where Scott Hastie’s ‘Meditations’ comes in. A remarkable book recommended to both teenagers and adults.


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HOSNI MUBARAK'S KINGDOM FALLEN IN A DISGRACEFUL MANNER

Hosni Mubarak's kingdom came to an end after his own people rejected him.



If a soothsayer had warned Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, that his own people would one day revolt against him, I am sure that he wouldn't have admitted it. 


Because of Mubarak, he needs no dream or vision to see the future, or afraid of any forthcoming political chaos in his country. After all, for over three decades, he had kept the Egyptians under his control without any fear of his losing his throne.

Mubarak, like many of the African leaders, created a one-party state to dominate and dictate to the people in a grand style, with corruption and a flamboyant lifestyle. 

As a president, Hosni Mubarak survived many assassination attempts on his life, but he couldn't escape the wrath of the Egyptians, who demanded his resignation in one of the biggest demonstrations in the history of Egypt.

According to an Arabic news site, the "Akhbar al-Arab", Gamal Mubarak, the 47-year-old son of Hosni Mubarak, together with his family, including Suzanne, 69,  Mubarak's wife, fled with a private jet to London to occupy a villa already bought by the corrupt Hosni Mubarak at 9 million dollars (6.5 million euros). 

Mubarak's family arrived in London with 97 suitcases. Corruption is always associated with African leaders. They deposit large sums of money at foreign banks while the common people suffer in poverty.

The world is rapidly changing. Even the Arab world wants democracy, though some don't agree with the USA. Power belongs to the people as well; this is what African leaders must know. 

What has happened to Hosni Mubarak is an experience that one-party state leaders should learn from. This is also a warning to corrupt leaders. 

Whatever one sows in life, exactly what one shall reap. Disgrace will always await them at the end of the tunnel, as Hosni Mubarak.

Britain's Economic Crisis, will they get out of this disaster?

Beautiful London

Eurozone
Britain is a country known to adhere to special rules, regulations, and principles, to be neutral, conservative, and probably to be unique amongst other advanced countries in the world. The official reasons for staying out of the Eurozone are a good example of what Britain stands for. 

In the first place, Britain should know best, united we stand, divided we fall. There is no way the economy will be successful with its single currency within the Euro currency zones.

From every angle, one could clearly see that the "imperial system of political ideas" in that country has taken its toll on them. In any crisis, people, instead of finding an immediate solution, would rather want someone to blame. 

Britain accused the United States of America of this unprecedented economic setback, failing to realize that the country's economic woes were brewed by internal factors as well. 

Just imagine how advanced auto technology is constantly shaping and changing this world, but Britain is still driving and producing "right-hand steering Vehicles" in Europe. 

The type of vehicles Europeans and Third World Countries don't need. Even if they produce the right form of vehicles for countries that need them, it will still affect them in many ways because countries driving right are more than those driving left.

Teenage Pregnancy

Take, for example, how the economy of a country thrives when teenagers ignore education and choose to be mothers instead? According to statistics, Britain has the highest percentage of teenage pregnancies. Teenage pregnancy has a great effect on the economy of every country. 

A brilliant child who pulls out of school because of pregnancy is a waste of human resources. It's very common to see  British teenagers speaking English but can't write. How can she write an application letter for a job, when she can't correctly spell words his or her own language?

Alcoholism

Alcohol is another factor that has affected the health system of Britain's economy. The passion for alcohol in Britain is beyond cure. There is nothing that the British government can do to prevent or reduce the rate of alcohol consumption in that country, even if the price of drinks is raised. 

Alcohol and drug abuse are some of the factors linked to teenage pregnancy; therefore, the government needs to find solutions to these problems, or else Britain will experience economic depression always no matter how good a politician is.

Discrimination in employment

Employment discrimination is another factor that has worsened Britain's economic crisis. Discrimination in employment takes place in Britain in many ways, against women, religion, race, and color. 

Many qualified professional workers are denied jobs in Britain daily, because of the color of their skin, his or her religion, or their sex. Instead, they employ someone unqualified and lazy, because of the slogan "Our People First." Developments in such circumstances are never achieved or slow because of the inefficiency of production.

Lazy workers call for sick leave, stay at home for long days without working, claiming benefits and other allowances, affecting the hard workers and taxpayers' money. Employment discrimination is somewhat better in London and places with good integration. 

The worst place in the county of Dorset (Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch), British Blacks and other foreigners are aware of that, which is the reason one can hardly see them in the neighborhoods.

People actually enjoy Britain on a visit, but I'm always sad whenever I'm in that country due to what I see. Almost on every street, I see dozens of "pregnant men." Obesity is taking its toll on the health of the people, but they simply don't care because food is delicious. 

When you talk about fashion, I think the worst-dressed Europeans are the British. When one visits places like Italy, Germany, France, and Belgium, one can see that they dress better than in Britain.

High Transportation cost

The cost of public transport in Britain is higher if compared with its European counterparts. Within the city of London, a short trip by bus costs £2. 

The ticket expires as one alights from the bus. In most of the European countries, for example, in Belgium, a city trip by tram or bus costs one euro twenty cents (from the ticket machine) and one euro fifty cents (from the bus or tram chauffeur). 

The ticket has an hour validity; in this case, one can join more than for four of five teams, depending on the length of the journey, until the ticket expires.

Despite all the harsh taxation systems, property tax, congestion tax and other means of money collection, Britain is a restless country to live in Europe. This is an indication that capitalism has failed in Britain. 

The lazy man wants to live like a rich man and have the same things as the rich man. The crime rate is increasing rapidly in Britain. God help the Scotland Yard. 

Until Britain's economy comes back on the right track, politicians in that country must be serious about finding solutions to the aforementioned problems.