Sunday, January 24, 2021

Covid-19 Lesson 5

In my last article, I went through a list of commodities that we use at home and never think about too much how we get them. One thing that came out of all four previous articles was that these people have to get to work somehow. Due to people being terribly hidebound, most prefer to lose hours a day for traveling and pay through their noses for the privilege to use public transport or for their otherwise superfluous car.

Covid-19 Lesson 4

So far we had the people that keep us from being overrun by the rat kings cohorts, the people who keep us safe from brigands and being burned alive, and the ambulances and hospitals that battle Covid-19 directly apart from all the other stuff that makes us ill. Time to open up the next box and show whom we so easily forget.

Saturday, January 23, 2021

British Fishing And Brexit

One of the quaintest industries in Britain is the fishing industry. It lost all of its viability in 1973 when the government sold it out to the European Union by becoming a member. Since then it had been a long tale of bankruptcy and buyout to foreign nations who were cleverer than the clumsy fools in 10 Downing Street at that time and since then.