Liberty And Justice For All. 

- To whom it may concern ...
- by Dave Auguste, Wed Dec 23 2020 17:12:19 GMT+0000 (Greenwich Mean Time) ... 




Coronavirus is transmitted from infected people to other people through inhalation of aerosol droplets, such as those produced when someone sneezes or coughs. The virus can also be carried from a contaminated surface by hand into the fluids of the eyes, nose or mouth through contact. Therefore, the advice we have been given, to wash our hands, to cover our nose and mouth when in close proximity to others, to avoid crowds and to maintain a distance between ourselves and strangers as much as possible, as well as to self isolate if we exhibit persistant symptoms of CoViD-19, remains the best form of protection against spread of the virus, whether positively infected or not. 
COVID-19 Testing Overview | CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/testing.html
- Not everyone needs to be tested. If you do get tested, you should self-quarantine/isolate at home pending test results and follow the advice of your health care provider or a public health professional. 
- Considerations for who should get tested: 
  • People who have symptoms of COVID-19. 
  • People who have had close contact (within 6 feet for a total of 15 minutes or more) with someone with confirmed COVID-19. 
  • People who have taken part in activities that put them at higher risk for COVID-19 because they cannot socially distance as needed, such as travel, attending large social or mass gatherings, or being in crowded indoor settings. 
  • People who have been asked or referred to get testing by their healthcare provider, or state ​health department. 
CoVid tests are not get out of jail free cards for party people who feel isolated. You could test negative today and pick up the virus tomorrow. Whilst there remains no way to irradicate the virus, changing our behaviour to minimise the chance of transmission is the most effective way to protect ourselves and each other from infection. We all surely know that a person's age and general state of health affects the resilience of that person's immune system response to the virus. Equally, it must make sense that a person's close proximity to large numbers of people multiplies the chance of that person being unlucky enough to become infected. Therefore ones standard of hygiene, occupation and social lifestyle all make a significant difference to an individuals overall risk factor. 
Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-getting-tested
- Testing is most effective within 3 days of symptoms developing.
- Home test kits can be delivered to your door so you can test yourself and your family without leaving your home. 
It seems fair to assume that nobody's risk factor is zero, but someone who does not travel by shared transport, does not socialise face-to-face with more than 2 people within their support bubble, and who maintains a distance between themselves and others at all times, is not at as high a risk as someone who, for example, works in an indoor setting for long periods of time amongst people who do not wear masks nor strictly follow social distancing guidelines. Overwhelming healthcare centres with queues of healthy people will lead those people toward crossing paths with those who will definitely be exhibiting symptoms of infection, and will thus introduce potentially uninfected people to greater risk than if they stayed at home and waited for a registered home test kit to arrive. 

What factors put you at risk from coronavirus?
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/coronavirus-and-your-health/what-makes-you-at-risk-from-coronavirus 

Study recommends testing students every two days, college ... 
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/03/study-recommends-testing-students-every-two-days-college-football-players-push-back 

Coronavirus: Premier League players tested twice a week ... 
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11980862/coronavirus-premier-league-players-tested-twice-a-week 

F1 news: F1 planning for coronavirus testing every two days 
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149298/f1-planning-covid19-tests-every-two-days  
South Korea, viewed as if a nation entity, was convinced without force to follow all the safety measures referred to above. England, as part of the UK has not maintained those same standards. Slack government policies, individual apathy and irresponsible disregard for the wellbeing of others means that, as well as costing us billions per week on furlough, whilst we linger in the shadow of a looming no-deal Brexit, 1 out of 1000 of our population will be counted dead by Christmas, compared to 1 in 70000 of South Korea's population. It all adds up to one long stretched out disaster for us here in the UK, in my humble opinion. 
Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics - United Kingdom 
Population: 67.89 million (2020) 
Cases:      2,110,314            
Deaths:     68,307               

Coronavirus (COVID-19) statistics - South Korea 
Population: 51.26 million (2019) 
Cases:      52,550               
Deaths:     739                  

Sources: Bing; Wikipedia; Wed Dec 23 2020 14:32:58 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time) 


How much does the furlough scheme cost, compared to 2008 banks bailout, Trident and HS2? 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/coronavirus-furlough-cost-how-much-banks-bailout-trident-hs2-a9514231.html
- Earlier this month the chancellor Rishi Sunak noted that the cost of the government’s jobs furlough scheme – around £14bn for every month – was as much as the monthly expenditure on the National Health Service. 

Covid: What impact has the furlough scheme had? 
- According to data from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the number of jobs furloughed peaked at 8.9 million on 8 May. It then fell to 6.8 million by 30 June and an estimated 5.1 million at the end of July, by which time lockdown restrictions had eased. 
- Since then, it has shrunk to about 3.3 million - but that still represents 12% of the UK's workforce. At the same time, those who remained in work saw their hours decline sharply. 

Rishi Sunak extends UK furlough scheme by one month to end of April 
- The second wave of the Covid pandemic has led the number of workers on furlough to more than double since the end of October, with about 5 million people – 15.5% of the UK workforce – receiving wage subsidies from the state at the end of last month, according to the Office for National Statistics. 
- As many as 2.4m jobs were still furloughed when the scheme was originally due to close on 31 October, down from a peak of 8.9m in May during the first lockdown, in a reflection of the widespread job losses that could have been triggered by its closure. 
- The furlough scheme has formed the backbone of the government’s £280bn support measures during 2020 as the pandemic plunged Britain’s economy into the deepest recession for more than 300 years. The government’s budget deficit – the gap between spending and income from taxes – is expected to hit £394bn this year, more than double the amount borrowed during the 2008 financial crisis. 


The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, was the biggest crime against humanity in history. It lasted as long as it did because the law allowed it to. 
Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade 
- The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. 
- Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years. The number purchased by the traders was considerably higher, as the passage had a high death rate with approximately 1.2–2.4 million dying during the voyage and millions more in seasoning camps in the Caribbean after arrival in the New World. Millions of people also died as a result of slave raids, wars, and during transport to the coast for sale to European slave traders. 

Africans in America - PBS 
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html 
- America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses. 

Vast scale of British slave ownership revealed 
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/vast-scale-british-slave-ownership-revealed-10383768.html 
- 46,000 Britons were slave owners on the day that slavery was abolished in 1833 and all received a share of a £17 billion compensation payout from the Government 
- David Cameron, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ben Affleck and George Orwell are just some of the high profile descendants of the slave owners revealed in the files. Records from the Slave Compensation Commission show that some 800,000 Africans were freed upon abolition after being kept as legal property.  
It should be clear from all the evidence that the many words of law are not the word of god. The law is a man made system of rules used for social control, a pliable instrument that is all too often too easily manipulated to permit one set of people to exploit another set of people. History demonstrates that it is necessary at times for individuals to stand up and protect themselves against others who would ignore our equal and inalienable rights as human beings - equal rights to freedom of expression, equal rights to freedom of choice, equal rights to Liberty and Justice, - as outlined in The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Beyond words, the UDHR is a bedrock set of principles upon which all subsequent laws should stand. It is a set of guiding principles written by human beings after WW2 in order to avert us all from sowing the seeds for WW3. Every member of the United Nations has signed up for it. 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights | United Nations
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood 
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, "I am not your property, and you are not mine". If we cannot agree upon facts concerning this virus, if you have no respect for practices nor principles that protect all of us from each other, then let us no longer waste precious time with words. 



Merry Christmas Planet Earth, and thank you to everyone who helped me by providing me with all I needed to stay alive, safe, healthy, and sane in 2020: i.e., shelter, food, internet access and a bicycle, so that I could continue to see my kid on a regular basis.