Its difficult to come out on the streets because the nature of this epidemic but i think what the epidemic actually teaches us is that the system under which we live is a sound belief lot. And it does not alter the worlds future that is worth living to boarded at its heart i mean the notion well is the only do not in nature so to prove the earth. And then to this day and wealthy people will get their way. By saving their lives so i dont write to them but what about the restaurants the work so i teach the new liberal capitalist system which has been in full snow expected at least since the eightys. Charmed since the ninetys of the last so you treat me. To be dismantled all the countries there are seriously attempting to come to grips with this epidemic i mean macro in france was korea it was election is based on making france to be near liberal state has now been forced to reverse all that and offering d to pay the utility beers council tax look you know people not so well off except fo
A new grim milestone on friday it was at the United States had crossed 500000 recorded cases of the coronavirus on saturday is that the u. S. Is now registered 20000 deaths more than any other country including italy and as you point out one 3rd of those cases was from new york state alone new York New Jersey and michigan being the hardest hit of all states so far and u. S. Health Officials Say they believe the infection are going to peak on Easter Sunday this coming sunday that was originally a date when President Trump is 81 of the u. S. To come out of this shelter in place orders and want to business to be back and moving again that is no longer happening that date seems to moved to may 1st and there are a lot of Public Health officials who are skeptical even about that date but there are places here in the United States where pastors are keeping churches open most states 43 states have locked down orders 7 of them do not but of the states that have lockdown orders Something Like 51
A bit later and todays anniversary of the iraq war but youre also a novelist and putting your novelist hat on how do you characterize near liberal culture and art given the fact that most peoples cultural imagination of a pandemic is really from hollywood and from films that what we have to go on well i mean you know its lost both of the culture today of fetus is dominated by a form of neo liberalism. Ill carriages individualists some of the most group has sort of you know this and be worshiped of 1st celebrities then someone extremely well known on television or a very strong. Actor is almost greeted as a dog and this is really deep deep you know much much worse so that. 30 to 40 you know so this. Proves various people almost not completely from thinking collectively and actually its not tell by the technology either the old internet revolution that has stayed in place encourages individual ism of course it needs i mean the number of people you run into on the buses all the tubes or o
A nationwide the number of new cases per day is flattening substantially suggesting that we are near the peak and comprehensive strategy is working overtime or guidelines to slow the spread or decreasing the rate of new cases very substantially and will result in fewer hospital admissions and were seeing that its. Incredible i think with with no exceptions its looking like its low. The u. K. Has reported its highest daily death toll but there are signs the number of cases are leveling out in spain and italy the italian Prime Minister says restrictions there will be extended dominic kane reports from berlin. Its a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday papal Passion Service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among Health Workers in some countrie
People not so well off except current shows that deep down this entire and they owe through worst major government in the western world are aware that the system which then being defended and supporting doesnt work for a majority of people that the lesson to be drawn after the virus has been tackled and shown if i may just say one of the countries that are shown no panic because it is bad for these claims is the tiny island of cuba where cruise ships which are not allowed to land anyway on joke anywhere jocking in cuba being greeted by the population of seoul and are being treated by the doctors and the cubans are sending free medicines all over africa now that is the mall where. Isnt the west there still gun to site move or to maintain sanctions against iran or venezuela which is still to be incomplete be discussed stick though this is still going on when those in the higher world is facing this crisis in fairness to morris johnsons Foreign Office and the stand of the British Governme