{"id":24269,"date":"2020-06-29T02:48:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24269"},"modified":"2020-06-29T02:48:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T01:48:43","slug":"what-does-a-moron-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24269","title":{"rendered":"What Does A Moron Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThreeAmerica has a problem. Actually, America has many<\/strong> problems. But with COVID-19, some problems stick out more than others.<\/p>\n

Mind you, I say that. But in America right now, pretty much all<\/strong> problems stick out. One of the current ones is in Texas<\/a>. It seems they have had daily new cases of COVID-19 jump from 2,000 to 6,000 (the article says 5,000, but it is actually 6,000 right now) in a few weeks. Putting that in perspective, Texas has a population which is about a third of the entire UK, yet our maximum number of daily cases has never \u2013 apart from one day in April, where I think care homes were added – been much above about 6,000. And the charts indicate it is still accelerating in Texas.<\/p>\n

Of course, we had the lockdown. And apart from a worrying number of morons ignoring it, that has brought our daily cases down to around 1,000.<\/p>\n

In a similar vein, Texas has seen around 150,000 cases overall. So far. That\u2019s already half of what we\u2019ve seen with three times as many people, and a higher population density.<\/p>\n

America has a complicated political structure, whereby state government mainly calls the shots, but this is further complicated by the various amendments to The Constitution, meaning the people pretty much decide whether they follow the Law or not (it\u2019s the \u2018Land of the Free\u2019, after all). And if anyone tries to make them, they get their guns out and it gets even more complicated (it\u2019s also the \u2018Land of the Stupid\u2019 at the best of times). And all this is completely legal, thanks to that same Constitution.<\/p>\n

You could write forever about the American system. But the point I wanted to make was about wearing face masks. It seems that the Texas Governor has urged people to wear masks \u2018where it is indicated\u2019. This has proved unpopular \u2013 violently so, from what I can gather. And my question in the title is simply illustrated by the photo from the BBC.<\/p>\n

See if you can spot the morons in it. Hint: there are three of them, and I\u2019ve numbered them just in case you can\u2019t work it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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