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If I start giving you artificial and arbitrary time frames, it would be the irresponsible thing to do, and I can't do that.The country is currently in its fourth week of lockdown and social distancing, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the introduction of the emergency measures in a televised address to the nation on March 23.
All $350 billion in the PPP was exhausted by Thursday, as over 1.6 million small businesses sought funds to keep running through the coronavirus lockdowns. Some 22 million Americans have already lost their jobs due to what senior public health officials described as an "inconvenience" that has lasted over a month already.It appears that the Philippines' Duterte has gone full crazy (maybe all those other crazy things he has said and done weren't an act!). After threatening to have authorities kill anyone violating quarantine, now he's threatening to call in the troops:
Duterte has sent out his warning in a televised speech. "I am asking for your discipline, because if you don't want to [follow the rules], the military and police will take over. I am ordering them now to be ready," he said, as cited by local media.Iran celebrated Army Day, but without the Army, choosing instead to parade medical equipment in a 'Defenders of the Homeland, Helpers of Health' parade:The police and the military will enforce social distancing and curfew. It would be like martial law. You choose.The president said that he could hand down the order as early as "next week."


We are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation.

Comment: How to understand the 'Skripal Saga' now in the era of the apocalyptic 'Covid-19 plague'?
Like many other nothing-burger 'incidents of global importance' since 9/11, it was a mediatized event. Something really happened, but that something was insignificant and blown up into a 'major deal' by the media for the purpose of distracting us all while the Powers That Be and their authoritarian followers busily laid plans for a hostile global takeover of the human population.