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Author Archives: Ericle
Track or Trace? A C-19 Halloween Special.
The Ericle has not written about The Pandemic for a couple of months; which has prompted My Reader recently to enquire: “Is The Pandemic Over?”. Sadly, not.
At the onset of The Pandemic, I like everybody else was trying to … Read more...
‘The Suit Maketh The Man’
The style of Keir Starmer, the new leader of UK’s Labour Party, is somewhat enigmatic. He is a man of undoubted intellect & scholarship, who when offered the throat of his political nemesis holds back from the easy drawing of … Read more...
CH-CH-CH-CHANGES
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes
There’s gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
DAVID BOWIE, 1971… Read more...
AN ERICLE SPECIAL: The 2020 US Presidential Debate
Posted in Americana, Humour, Politics, The Ericle Has Spoken
Tagged Humour, politics, USA
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God Bless America
What I saw:
This is a picture of Donald Trump returning to The White House after his Tulsa political rally, watched by an underwhelming 6,200 people in a stadium that can hold 18,000, after claiming that over 1,000,000 people … Read more...
Posted in Americana, Opinion, Politics
Tagged International, politics, presidential election, USA
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A Famous German comments on ‘The Government We Deserve’
Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC’s German Manager, writing for The Ericle (and The Sunday Times) today:
we came from two different planets.”
We get the government that we deserve.
One of the unmissable features of the COVID Pandemic is that the world responded to it not as one, but as nation-based. Perhaps, one day the governance of the world will be the domain of global institutions but it is … Read more...
Posted in For What It's Worth, Opinion, Politics, Society
Tagged Coronavirus, Society, UK Politics
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(Talkin’ about) My G-g-g-g-g-eneration…..
People try to put us d-down
Just because we get around
Things they do look awful c-c-cold
I hope I die before I get old
My generation
This is my generation, baby
Sing along with The Who: here
One of … Read more...
More Serious Numbers
- 29% of Brits admitted (anonymously) to breaking the lockdown
- 60% is the threshold where it is believed that Herd Immunity comes into play
- 81% of C-19 cases are mild or unrecognized and are unreported
- 60% participation is needed for a
Posted in Economics, For What It's Worth, International, Science
Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Post-COVID
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The US Presidential Election: A Battle Won But …..
“Kathy, I’m lost”, I said
Though I knew she was sleeping
“I’m empty and aching and
I don’t know why”.
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come
To look for America
All come to look for … Read more...