I WILL WRITE A NUMBER OF EMERGENCY ON PLANET EARTH BLOGS THROUGHOUT THE TORY SPONSORED CORONAVIRUS CRISIS.
What follows is a random collection of thoughts from a human being trapped in 21st Century British society.
Wednesday 1st April
Article by Jamie Hale:
The politics of Covid-19: government contempt for disabled people
https://www.redpepper.org.uk/covid-19-disabled-peoples-rights/
“Terrifyingly, the legislation that keeps disabled people living safely at home is now being removed. The government’s Coronavirus Bill will make changes to the Care Act 2014 which remove the legal duty on local authorities to provide care, except where not providing it would breach people’s human rights. This could, in one fell swoop, wipe out most adult social care – with no guarantee it will ever be replaced.”
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Society seems to be extremely fatalistic at the moment, due to obvious reasons. I haven’t watched the news all year long, as even without scary news about the pandemic, I can’t stand hearing right-wing politicians or broadcasters spouting streams of shit.
Instead, I spend most of my time watching music videos from the 90’s or earlier on YouTube, and try to enjoy these days of doom, rather than fretting over what might be. I am given strength by the fact that I employ a fantastic team of personal assistants, who continue to report for work every day on the front line. Without them, I could not achieve anything, so I am truly indebted and would like to recognise such individuals. The fact that the Government has shown no signs of rolling out tests for people who provide care and support, is nothing short of a national disgrace.
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Something I am watching on TV at the moment, is Seinfeld. I managed to find the box set of this innovative sitcom on ‘All 4’. I have the complete set of DVDs, but at the moment I don’t have a DVD player to watch them on. Therefore, I was excited to find them on All 4.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with Seinfeld – shame on you – then I have copied the following paragraphs from the Seinfeld Wikipedia page:
Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld for NBC. As a comedian rising in popularity in the late eighties, Seinfeld was presented with an opportunity to create a show with NBC. Seinfeld asked fellow comedian and friend, Larry David, to help create a premise for a sitcom.[1] The show stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself, and mostly focuses on his personal life with a handful of friends and acquaintances, including best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), friend and former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). Seinfeld is set predominantly in an apartment building in Manhattan‘s Upper West Side in New York City. It is often described as being “a show about nothing”, as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life.[2]
Seinfeld was produced by West-Shapiro Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment and ran from 1989 to 1998. In syndication, the series is distributed by Sony Pictures Television. It was largely written by David and Seinfeld with script writers who included Larry Charles, Peter Mehlman, Gregg Kavet, Carol Leifer, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Steve Koren, Jennifer Crittenden, Tom Gammill, Max Pross, Dan O’Keefe, Charlie Rubin, Marjorie Gross, Alec Berg, Elaine Pope, and Spike Feresten. A favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two (with NBC’s ER) every year from 1994 to 1998.
Seinfeld is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential sitcoms of all time. It has been ranked among the best television shows of all time in publications such as Entertainment Weekly,[3] Rolling Stone,[4] and TV Guide.[5][6] The show’s most renowned episodes include “The Chinese Restaurant“, “The Parking Garage“,[7] and “The Contest“.[8] In 2013, the Writers Guild of America voted it the No. 2 Best Written TV Series of All Time (second to The Sopranos).[9] E! named the series the “Number 1 reason the ’90s ruled”,[10] and quotes from numerous episodes have become catchphrases in American popular culture.
