Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Channel 4 News" channel.

Former Defense Minister Zagorodnyok has the best vision for his country. He sees things exactly the way one should in that there can be no reward for an agressor nation causing such harm and destruction and deserving favors. Mariusol must remain in Ukrainian hands and after hearing the reasons from Mr Zagorodnyok, we can see that the Ukrainians will never let this historic city be taken from them. Bravo!
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With just 5 minutes into this powerful vocast, one is aware of the emmense compassion and empathy from the journalists questioning locals and hearing stories of a neighboring country's invading army which came, saw, conquered and killed indiscriminately innocent, hard-working people for no reason at all. Ukrainians must be wondering how people that are just like them could come as marauding barbarians and be so cruel and murderous. We have to say thank you for the reporters whose lives will also be changed forever from their work in the Ukraine war. I'm a visual person and just seeing dead bodies on the videos haunts me at times, what it must be to see them in real life and most likely many scenes that are simply too horendous for home-viewers must be incredibly hard for some of the journalists to live with and maybe for the rest of their lives. What we all have to do is help the Ukrainian people take back their country, Crimea and the piece of land annexed in 2014 as well. When that is done I predict this will be a turning point in world history where authoritarian regimes begin to be peacefully dismantled across the globe. The lingering question in my mind is how will the Ukrainians ever be able to accept their Russian neighbors again.
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I'm coming in at 9:00 just to say that the extreme cruelty of the Russian troops is baffling. I live 2,000 kilometers from Kiev. I am a 15 minute walk frpm the border with France. It is unfathonable to imagine that people from a border country, with a lot of them having relatives in the invaded country, could perpetrate such heinous acts on what is essentially their neighbors. What sort of person could change into a cold blooded killer overnight like that the minute they are wearing a uniform? The story of the boy and his dad I will carry to my grave. The Russians shot the boy's dad who had come to them point blank the minute he looked away with his hands up. Then a soldier shot the boy, shot him again, and shot him again through the head--or so he thought--and then wandered off. The boy had managed to miss getting hit in the body or head because of a hood; he got up when the soldier went behind a tank and ran for cover. Can any of us imagine what that boy has to live with the rest of his life? Also; how could he ever view his neighbors with anything but hate from now on? This is what is the great tragedy; these were neighboring nations who many times spoke the same language. Can any of us ever come to grips with what an authoritarian regime does to people's minds let alone what it is capable of doing to innocent civilians? The human species has never evolved is all I can think of. Deep hatred can turn to mass murder with the pull of a trigger and the firing of a tank gun. Cities can be destroyed in a fortnight by the rockets from an attack helicopter, the buzz of a super-sonic cruise missile and pounded to rubble by artillery batteries firing endlessly into city centers. We're sickened seeing these images covered by courageous journalists who will never erase many of the images they have seen of people lying in the streets, hands tied behind their backs and a bullet hole in the back of their heads. War bends the minds of men and women; dictators give them a green flag and medals. NATO and its allies rub their hands together and shake their heads and send a new shipment of arms. This war shows us we need to break some rules to save our souls.
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Let's be honest: Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to President Zalensky on the battlefront is worth 10'000 tanks. How I wish I were British in these precarious times.Thank you Great Britain, thank you Prime Minister Johnson. The whole world is going to realize that the Ukraine survived and won the war because of Great Britain's support. When the UK has your back, you don't win, you win big...
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Never in all of my life would I have imagined to be viewing a videocast of this dimension of inhumanity to mankind. A city destroyed before the eyes of the world and because of beaurocratic red tape all the world can do is secretly deliver food and arms to the struggling forces of the Ukrainian military and volunteers and citizenry hanging on and fighting to the last man.
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The only forward path for Ukraine is to state that all and any Ukrainian territory can and will not be ceded to any group or country or invading force. If I were in the negotians I would start every session as follows. "We are our own people, a proud sovereign nation that is centuries old and there is no country or power or force on Earth that can take even a square centimeter of our land. We will live in peace with any and all countries of the world that respect our boundaries, but there will be no negotiating on any part of our country being given away or annexed by a foreign power. This is our postion Ad astra".
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Where there is smoke... What we have to realize is that Mariupol seems to be at edge of the abyss; its last hope for survival is dwindling by the hour. This must not happen. I'm not a military man, but anyone can see that the NATO shield must come down if it looks like Mariupol goes under Russian control. This is the keystone city of the Ukraine and if it falls the nation's defensive operations will be in danger. It's an opinion.
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Thank you Channel 4 News for showing to the world how insanely life-threatening and debilitating the Coronovirus is. To see these poor people having to literally start over from zero to get their strength back, their thoughts together and just to be able to walk again is staggering. It must be heartbreaking to go into the front lines and see exactly how devastatingly incapacitating this deadly virus is. What is hard to imagine is that we are being told that this is only the first wave of the epidemic. In Spain, we have learned that of a population of 47 million, 2,353,000 have been infected and 27, 459 people have died, giving us a 1.16% infection rate for the death toll. Still, at barely 1% of people succombing to the disease, it's madness to think economics is forcing politician's hands in getting people back to work, but we can't turn off the world forever. What we have to do is to realize that this is not going away any time soon and the most important thing to do is to avoid crowds.
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Tobias Elwood ( I hope I have spelled his name correctly ) is finally showing some backbone that all of us have but all of us are petrified to admit. Tobias paints a picture of what it will take to win and his assessment of what needs to be done to save Odessa should be first on the list. When the UK and its allies do push into first gear and enter the conflict, this is what I think Putin has been longing for all along. And we had better be prepared for a new sort of weapons system that will be put into use. I think we had also realize that China, India and Brazil and Syria are waiting in the wings for marching orders. Our one hope is that we all accept that we have to fight this battle for the well-being of the human community.
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Dear Chanel 4 team and Dr Hepburn, Never, in all my life could I have imagined how hard the Coronovirus hits human beings. Listening to Dr Hepburn makes you sit back and Wonder how someone can take a year to get back on their feet and what that must be like. The expertise of Dr Hepburn and the army of careworkers needed to help someone get through the ICU part of the disease is staggering. My city on the continent goes off lock down this coming Monday. We take the trams and buses to work. In the trams especially we're packed in like sardines. Just one person coughing will infect a dozen people standing close to them. But coming back to the amazing work of Dr Hepburn, one cannot imagine how dedicated the medical staff are and how devoted they are in trying to help patients. It must be so hard to see a patient plateau-out and then not be able to get over it and die. I thought I heard everything about this virus, but it just keeps getting worse. Yesterday, a science writer said it will take 36 months at the best case scenario to have the epidemic behind us. I honestly cannot fathom what this means to the future we are all condemned to inhabit.
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Couldn't it be considered a crime against humanity for the Russians to block grain exports from the Ukraine? And if so, couldn't the world community go in there and get that grain loaded on ships?
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Richard Dawkins has done the world a favor and for people like myself who have struggled all my life to find out what I actually believe in, all I know is that from listening to Mr Dawkins and many of his illustrious colleagues, it has pushed me to find the tracks of my beliefs that were long ago vanished from the sands of my time in my mind. What I have always felt—or at least as long as I can remember—is that one reason I have never been able to put my life in another’s hands, or lead my life from another’s plan, or believe in someone other than myself is my extreme distrust in putting my fate in anyone or even in a spiritual master or master of the universe’s hands. It’s the most frightening thing I can think of and I have to say it’s because I’ve undoubtedly met so many people who turned out to be untrue, that it has made me into the person I am and—here’s my point on religion. I believe that the spiritual guides like Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha among others are there to help guide someone—and more power to you if you find that believing in Jesus for example, gives your life purpose. But I believe that religion’s spiritual guides were never meant to be holding one’s hand all the way through one’s entire existence. We all outgrow our teachers; otherwise, we’d never make anything of ourselves. And: when you have breathed your last breath and crossed over to the other side of life into death and the afterlife—whatever that turns out to be, you want to have made it on your own. I think we have to believe in ourselves to be whole and the goal of life is to stand on one’s two feet and face whatever comes at you. To go through your whole life reading dubious texts written by a thousand ghost-writers and having that be your roadmap to heaven is like letting a blind person take you by the hand to cross a busy intersection. It’s backwards. It’s an opinion, but I want to thank Mr Dawkins for provoking in my thoughts that have helped and are still helping me define what my purpose is in the world we live in. I firmly believe I’m right in relying only on myself and what I’ve constructed in my mind to define my life and what I’m here on Earth to do. But most of all, I wouldn’t want to make a judgement on somebody else’s belief system. Everyone should have the right to live their life and believe in the things they want to believe in; Richard Dawkins has helped humanity by undoing the knots and logjams that have accumulated throughout the centuries that have made our mindset rigid and locked in belief systems that have long since lived their day.
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I''m trying to imagine what it must be like doing your work. Because, for the excellent and compassionate and well-researched reporting all of you at Channel 4 News deliver every single day in this horrendous war that is creeping it's way to where I live about 200 kilometers from Kiev, it must be taking its toll on you. The top news reporter Alex Thompson is surely on one of the most difficult assignments of his career. One cannot imagine what his eyes must be seeing that the camera cannot show us. But at 8:47 into the vocast he tells us we can expect this war to go into the summer. This is terrifying; I can't turn this conflict off in my head. We know that it's only going to intensify and what I am trying to do is look ahead at Easter 2023. What will Mr Thompson and all of you at Channel 4 News be telling us a year from now? No one wants to guess probably, but I predict that the outcome will go like this: Ukraine will win back all of its territory and the annexed Crimea and strip of land. It will be a humiliating defeat for Putin and that is what worries me the most. The Russians will have to save face and that means they will have to win something big. They know that they will have to win over NATO or lose international prestige. They know that they have to bring the war to neighboring countries and take back the Ukraine.
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The only thing that will dissuade people from going from a peaceful demonstration to the extremes is to take away their time. All the rioters should lose the rest of the summer at a minimum, and then heavy fines will finish them off. Lastly, all of those people who have been booked will pay much later in their lives, because they now have a criminal record that will never be expunged. In our age of terrorism, the young man who fled a police officer's order to stop could have been someone going to do a terrorist act. Who in their right mind would ever drive away from a policeman ordering them to stop in any country in today's world? Police have to make split decisions; it's a hard call to know when or when not to use force.
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Dear Sir, thank you for an excellent interview with Mr Krugman. Mr Krugman, this is a wild idea, but do you think if you joined the Republican party you could be a better force for change, rather than by being as denigrating towards them as you are now? Why not switch sides and start going to rallies and speaking your mind? Maybe you could change the rhetoric? Secondly, do you think Bernie Sanders’ health should be something people should be talking about? He looks very close to having some sort of breakdown with his health. His recent heart attack makes one think he would be better off not running in spite of his desire to dethrone Trump. Something in his eyes seems to be saying, “I know I shouldn’t be doing this, but my country needs me.” Your views on America being a possible clone of Hungary are shocking and show that America has lost her way. Would you say the best thing Donald J. Trump has done is to show that the American Republic has lost her way?
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, Thank you and your fellow ministers for the very informative press conference for the British people. I am watching this videocast from Switzerland where the disease has made itself known for about two weeks. The authorities have closed the schools, etc. My message or suggestion to you is the following. Would it be prudent to set up ‘tent cities’ in key locations around your country where if there were a steep rise in people needing hospitalization, there would be ‘makeshift’ hospitals already set up with all of the necessary equipment, heating, cooling, medical supplies, operating rooms etc., ready to be used at a moment’s notice? There could be tents for the expected patients and medical staff already in place, food provisions, cooking facilities, sleeping quarters, recreational facilities, in short all of the things a hospital has. Now you have the time to do this and not be in emergency mode. It will probably not be necessary and it will be criticized as going overboard on precaution, but should you have to need even one ‘tent city’, it would save countless sleepless nights by overworked staff to set up the facilities in great haste and save your NHS system from burnout and put further people at risk of contacting the disease by having their immune systems taxed to the maximum. Good luck in your courageous work to save life.
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@Cruzeoc101 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. What we see is that Mariupol has been 90% destroyed. What cannot and must not happen is for Mariupol to fall. If Mariupol falls, Kiev falls. It is the keystone city in the conflict. What is astounding is the fighting ability of the Ukrainian forces; they look like world class fighters.
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Begs the question means assumes what it should be proving and does not mean raises the question. Correct use : « When I asked the dealer why I should pay more for the German car, he said I would be getting 'German quality', but that just begs the question. »
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@julianrey156 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Like you, I gather my data from my resources and come to some sort of an opinion. Blanket statements don't give us your take on things. Tell us why your point of view is a stronger argument rather than criticize someone else's viewpoint as being irrelevant. No one has all the information on the war.
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@sergeymelnik1689 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I am an artist living 2,000 kilometers from your country and I feel the war coming closer by the day. You are going to get all the support you can get and you're right to keep asking for more weapons. Weapon shipments are on their way to you. The thing to focus on is the next battle. Go at this fight by fight and focus on the next battle. The west has your back. Visualize winning every time you are going to fight.
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I am an artist and not an economist. Like so many things that happen by chance, I invented an economic model to replace finance capitalism, our economic system that has been in place for centuries. My book which I will shamelessly plug to give the name of my system is called The Treatise of Teknomix and in this system there aren't going to be stories like we are seeing in this heartbreaking videocast. We have to realize that it is immoral for an economic system to have winners and losers; everyone should be a winner. You guessed it; my economic model is utopic, but for the love of God we cannot be serious in having the UK have millions of decent and hardworking people barely eking out a survival for their entire lives. Why not have economists look at the model I have come up with and see if it is not time to adopt it?
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@alaingabriel1710 GGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Thank you for this information; it explains the brutality and cruelty of Russian occupying forces.
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Thank you sir, for an excellent interview and thank you, Professor Devi Sridhar, for explaining things clearly and brilliantly analyzing the Covid-19 pandemic and pointing out what we can expect coming down the line. My question is about why you don’t think about helping your own people. What about your country, Professor Devi Sridhar? Have you ever thought of going back to India to help the Indian people? Imagine the knowledge and experience you could share with the people of India. The vast powerhouse of what you have learned from your time and studies and experiences in America and the UK could upgrade their health systems immensely. What about going back to India and help them get on their feet in the international arena and help them with your expert advice on the Covid-19 problem as well? It’s obvious you have top credentials, but India could use your expertise in so many, many ways. Imagine with what you’ve learned in America and the UK what you could do for women’s rights, equality, democracy, health care! You’re one of the best in your field, but why not help your home country while you are young and full of energy and goodwill? It's only an opinion about helping your brothers and sisters in one of the most beautiful countries in the world: India.
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Excellent reporting once again of a country where one has a great deal of trouble imagining what it must be like to have to leave your village, town or city because of an invading army which is shelling civilian infrastructure at will. President Zelensky has been called a hero, but even he balks at that. What his greatest contribution has been is to simply have stayed on as President. This has given every man, woman and child in Ukraine hope and the will to fight back. Now the Eastern offensive from the Russians will begin; the war has been tiddly-winks until now, I'm afraid.
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@reynardfoxx6753 GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. How I gather my data determines my analyses, and I'm sure it's the same with you. Ask 6 economists about the state of the economy and you'll get answers 6 ways from Sunday. Everyone has their sources on what the Russians have or don't have, but what no one has is solid proof. Not yet.
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As someone living on the continent and hearing the comeback of Covid-19 with over 50,000 infections a day in The United Kingdom, I would just like to say I know you're going to get through this winter in flying colors and you are going to get your lives back in order when the virus has run its course. Your Government and Prime Minister and the thousands of health professionals are doing everything they can to make this pandemic go away, but they are only human: mistakes will be made. The human community is confronted with its greatest challenge since WW II, but like you succeeded in the Battle of Britain in 1940 you and everyone will rise above this obstacle and learn to live with a very difficult new addition to other contageous viruses confronting us.
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@michaelfraser5723 GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. What is done?
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@2fast2block GGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You have done a lot of research and soul searching. It's got to be a good feeling to understand life and you seem to have found what you need to define it. I listen to everyone and then I suppose one day I'll have the answers I need to formulate the way I think life and the universe have evolved. Dawkins has provoked people and that means discussion is possible.
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@Daikatana GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You're right of course for the destructive wars that have never ceased to exist. It's just that this time we get to see it from portable phone cameras. It still doesn't justify it being the most horrendous war; what Ukraine shows us is how horrible it is when civlians are targeted.
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@Daikatana GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You are right that we don't see any Yemeni videos of the war going on there. Africa is sort of off-limits to western media for some reason. What I would like to know is if they are showing videos of Yemini attrocities across Africa and, if so, why are we seeing intervention by Africa nations to stop the war?
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@Cruzeoc101 GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iefz3iCxPlI I am an artist living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev. What I do is to gather as much information about whatever subject I'm researching, then I put together my analysis. I have no doubt in my mind the Ukraine catastophe we are seeing has been repeated over and over again. No one has shown what the Israelis have done when they attacked the Gaza strip with fighter planes and bombs and troops and tanks and rockets, other than a few scattered videos. We were told it was the Palestinians who were to blame. Now more than ever, we can see why Israel, for example, does not want the Palestinians to have their own country. Because then there would be outrage when they blew up buidings and bulldozed homes in a sovereign country. Yemin is probably a humanitarian disaster beyond description, like in Chechnya. My question is this: if they are filming in Yemen, are the videocasts going to all the African countries? Why don't we see African countries coming to the aid of the Yemanis? It's important to stay neutral. I'm not a negotiator or military person as well.
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@Daikatana GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I've got neighbors from Ivory Coast, so I'll ask them, but on my map it's on the African continent. Where it is is of little importance, they are being attacked and I don't see other African nations sending in support.
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@Brandon GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I know people from there who say they're from Africa. You're right, but probably some people from there want to be African. The war in Yemen has not united the African countries to bring it to an end, so that tells you they don't consider it a part of the continent. The important thing is to help them get their country back.
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@alanhat5252 GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. The NATO shield is what Putin hides behind. NATO won't go in Ukraine so it's a shield from Putin's point of view. This is getting to a big battle soon. I think NATO will go in if Mariupol falls.
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@ymca4547 GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Are C4 and BBC journos the reporters broadcasting from the Ukraine? Do you mean face the Russians head on by being in the battlefield with the soldiers? Are you being sarcastic? It's hard to follow what you're driving at...
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If we step back from our borders and look at ourselves as part of the human community, we can see that the Ukrainian conflict is the keystone in making sure that President Putin's Russia does not merge with Xi Jinping's China. Authoritarian states are simply stonger than democratic ones because they figured out long ago that fear will trump the idea of freedom for people and keep them from developing any sense of individuality or desire to question the dictums of the state. For the survival of the human family as a species where individual rights are revered and respected, we have to realize that Ukraine show us cleary without any doubts that authoritarian regimes and democratic countries can no longer co-exist on the Earth. It's not to say democratic countries are faultless and not prone to every form of corruption that exists, but they do allow people to have at least the belief that they live in a free society and can vote in or vote out of office canditates as they wish and live their dreams. Ukraine proves this point in vivid technicolor; autocratic regimes despise free countries.
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@type7diabetes96 GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. The President of Poland recently said that Poland and Ukraine have been friends for four centuries, which is why they have taken in over 2 million refugees.
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I am an artist and not an economist. Like so many things that happen by chance, I invented an economic model to replace finance capitalism, our economic system that has been in place for centuries. My book which I will shamelessly plug to give the name of my system is called The Treatise of Teknomix and in this system there aren't going to be stories like we are seeing in this heartbreaking videocast. We have to realize that it is immoral for an economic system to have winners and losers; everyone should be a winner. You guessed it; my economic model is utopic, but for the love of God we cannot be serious in having the UK have millions of decent and hardworking people barely eking out a paltry survival for their entire lives. I sent this comment to another video about poverty in th UK.
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What needs to be done now is simple: Russia must be made to realize that it no longer can do what it wants in a rules-based international order. Whether President Putin wants to be a a part of the world community is his problem, because he may speak for Russia today, but Russians will one day not be in his shadow and many will see that Russia must abide by the rules and not enforce her own on others. I predict that the Putin era will be quickly swept under the carpet. The Ukraine War shows the emperor has no clothes; Russia may use Belarus' puppet dictator to launch the first nuclear weapons in a continental war, but we must not run for cover because of nuclear threats: we must confront them with the same intensity of will and the identical military device if need be. The time has come to forever deconstruct autocratic regimes bent on disrupting the human family in any way, shape or form.
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am not a British citizen, I live in a country next to Italy where there have been over 5 thousand deaths, but I would like to commend you on a very uplifting message that speaks to the human family. My country is on lock down. My suggestion to you is to have a virtual suggestion box that people could send ideas or things they have in mind that could make this 21 day shutdown leave your government with some plans when you reboot society. For myself, I think it would be good for people to take care of themselves, double the ration of fruit, read a lot, write their thoughts out if they are stressed. What I think you as head of the British Government must already know is that your country and every country is more vulnerable to attack from a hostile source than at any time in history. What I think this Coronovirus is in reality is a harbinger of what’s going to be coming at us in the next wave. What is important now is to head it off at the pass. What makes people more worried and therefore have their immune systems weakened than anything else? To be out of cash, broke, unable to buy things. What should be done is to guarantee all salaries, wages, pay packets, and I think you are ahead of me on that one. Lastly, it’s time to ask this question from an Anthony Robbins’ book. “What is good about this problem?” What can we do in this 3 week tunnel to come out on the other side in better shape? Would forgiving private debt be something that could be envisioned? Would using this 3 week time to solve the terrible eye-sore that stretches across the globe of homeless people be a good idea? Why don’t we ask the world’s greatest minds these kinds of questions and at least go back to civilized life with the eye-sores absent for once and for all. Lastly, lastly, would it be a good idea to have a drawing, painting, sculpture contest of sorts to ask every body who wants a crack at putting down something in paint or pencil or clay?
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