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Big Government Bans Supermarkets from Selling 'Non Essentials' in Lockdown Wales
Wales's First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that supermarkets will not be able to sell 'non-essential' goods like clothing during a 17-day lockdown.
From 6 pm on Friday to midnight on November 9th, Wales will see many retailers close, apart from shops which sell food like supermarkets, as well as pharmacies and off-licences.
Kanye tells Rogan it's his 'calling' from God to be president - but if not, he's happy to run for California governor over NewsomSee also:
24 Oct, 2020 22:44
In a wide-ranging interview with Joe Rogan, rapper and independent presidential candidate Kanye West says it is his calling "to be the leader of the free world," but he's also open to being governor of California.
Though he's running for president, former Donald Trump supporter West says taking over a smaller, though still significant, political office has also "been an idea people throw at me."
Briefly discussing Ronald Reagan's journey from California governor to president, West said the office could be an option for him.
"I believe that my calling to be leader of the free world, but if it's in God's plan that part of my path is to be governor then that's fine," the rapper said.
Rogan, a frequent critic of Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, was encouraging of the idea and said "anybody would be better than this guy."
"Give it a shot. Open things up again," he said.
Rogan is one of many public figures to make a recent move out of California. He now lives in Austin, Texas.
Talking more about his "calling," West said the idea of being president was "something God put in my heart back in 2015."
West, whose independent run for president this year has been highly criticized by Democrats looking to unseat Trump, said that many took it as a "joke" when he announced his intentions, and tried to discourage him from running, including major Democrat Party donor Oprah Winfrey.
West said that Trump winning the presidency in 2016 had proven that people "coming from outside of politics" could make it to the Oval Office.
"There couldn't be a better time to put a visionary in the captain's chair," he said of his potential as president.
"I listen and I'm empathetic. I feel the entire Earth and I feel us as a species, the human race," he continued, adding that he wants "world peace" and that it's time for the US to "innovate."
Since announcing his candidacy over the summer, West has faced accusations of running a spoiler campaign to hurt Joe Biden's chances at defeating Trump, something he has denied on multiple occasions.
The rapper has made multiple state ballots, including Tennessee and Colorado, but he is a write-in candidate in most states, making the likelihood of his winning a major longshot. He has, however, claimed he can beat Biden "off of write-ins."
"'With no social distancing measures in place from now until January, the virus could potentially spiral out of control and kill 217,000 people, hospitalise 316,000 and infect 20.7 million. But with a strict two-week lockdown the number of deaths could be reduced by 100,000, admissions by 139,000 and infections by 6 million.'
"Unfortunately, in every other age group case numbers continue to rise at about the same rate they were. There are little hints of slowing, for instance in the North East of England, but we are not seeing the sort of slowing that we really need to to get on top of this.Professor Ferguson's stark warning came after new figures released yesterday showed the second wave of infections may be beginning to slow.
"It is a worrying situation. We now have 8,000 people in hospital with Covid. That is about a third of the level we were at the peak of the pandemic in March. If the rate of growth continues as it is, it means that in a month's time we will above that peak level in March and that is probably unsustainable. We are in a critical time right now. The health system will not be able to cope with this rate of growth for much longer."
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