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+Coronavirus isn’t choosy at all, I think the message is getting home. With Johnson in intensive care, there couldn’t be a starker warning. Perhaps though there is a way of avoiding the virus, which is to say don’t be a sinner! Last week some DUP councillor and nutter in Northern Ireland was blaming it all on gay people and same sex marriages. And now I read that headbanger Benjamin Netanyahu has also had to go into self-isolation, since he may have been in contact with his health minister, Yaakov Litzman, who also leads the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism Party. Mr Litzman was quoted as saying ‘It’s a divine punishment against homosexuality . . .   I am sure that the Messiah will come and take us out as God took us out of Egypt. We will soon be free and the Messiah will come and save us from all the world’s troubles.’ And this man is a health minister . .  I’m beginning to wonder if there’s some connection between being gay and 5G, another phenomenon getting the blame? The Lord certainly does work in mysterious ways. Anyway, I’m looking forward to meeting the Messiah when this is all over, although if He only appears on social media I’ll probably give the second coming a miss.
 
+The BBC, as is their duty are broadcasting live the daily 5pm Coronavirus briefing on behalf of the Conservative Party, and god knows it makes the film Groundhog Day look amateurish. I think if you went to B&Q and asked for a specially blended bland gloss you wouldn’t get a better shine than the offering from No 10 each day. It is surely a matter of regret that chief officers of medicine and science are drafted in to back up the hopeless minister’s platitudes. Lying platitudes, it has to be said, but since only the mainstream media are invited to pose questions, there’s never a real challenge. To rub salt into the wound, after the live broadcast has ended who does the BBC invite on for comment? None other than George Osborne, whose austerity has done so much to make the NHS struggle in this pandemic. This, despite the fact that Kier Starmer has appointed a full shadow cabinet, all of whom I imagine (I hope anyway) are keen to make themselves available. If it should turn out that shadow cabinet members have not been available, questions will have to be asked.