RedFox Blog: Are We Starved Yet ?
Post 774 22/12/20
And we have arrived in reality. The French have shown that we cannot survive from such a move as to close us off from our lifeline when no deals have been reached. Yes! we can all claim to be an Independent Trading Nation but the reality means that we need our closest allies to provide with us the means of getting that trade to our country. Leaving the EU is the goal. But! we cannot survive from trade form our trading deals in other parts of the world. We have to have produce moved across the channel and the closure of the crossing point at dover shows this.
Air freight can be an answer but will the EU sell the goods we want at a price we want. The UK Conservative government has shown how much they live in cloud cuckoo land. Broadly speaking so is the Northern Irish because also the Republic of Ireland have also shut their border crossing. There is no getting out of this and there will be no way of undoing the damage Brexit will bring. No deal and we will be cut off from our food supply and that would then mean no fresh produce. And yet there is no one really wants to say that Brexit will be a disaster.
Online Christmas
If you do not know how to use technology then you will miss out on Christmas this year. No one will be able to meet up at Christmas due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. As a family we have decided that its best to have a zoom Christmas meet up on the day because our mother is over 80. Like most families if you have a person that is most likely to catch Covid then like us you will have no choice but to make a zoom call. You can have a chat through your phone but that would not include a video call. The technology exists but if you are elderly and do not know how to use it then at the end you will be left alone.
But I think every family will be doing the same thing across the UK if not the world. The restrictions in place means that you are unlikely to meet your family in person. It will be agonizing because you know that those that are vulnerable to this disease will have to spend much more time alone. It will be torture if your elderly relative caught Covid-19 because you wanted to meet them face to face. Technology has its uses and has a place in our society. But the thing is sometimes it is annoying because it would be frustrating to those that do not know how to use the technology.