Toothache.

        Yea, I'm saying it again, Covid19 has been, and still is, the greatest opportunity in a generation for our corporate big boys and those hellbent on privatisation. While the corporate beast slashes away at working conditions and wages, and they gobble up billions of our taxpayers money as a wee helping hand from their friendly government, the privateer mob have been busy grabbing contracts from the NHS via a privatisation oriented government. Just one example, millions spent on crap test and trace contract jamborees, all handed to friends and buddies of the powers that be. If there is taxpayers money to be got rest assured the corporate world will be ahead of the queue with the NHS far down the line, even if it is their field of expertise.
          Not to be out done, your friendly neighbourhood dentist is in there with the grabbing fist. Needing some treatment for that tooth problem, want treated on the NHS, wait outside in the rain, but go private, please have a seat, the dentist will see you shortly. Of course there will be excuses, regulations, costs etc. but that doesn't help your toothache if you wish it to be treated on the NHS.

The following from The Herald:

 

      MORE dentists in Scotland are refusing to treat NHS patients than in England, dental leaders say, leaving many struggling to access even basic check-ups.
       An investigation by the Herald found there is wide variation across Scotland and some confusion over what treatments dentists can or are willing to provide if patients are not private due to the impact of coronavirus.
      Currently only emergency ‘aerosol generating procedures (AGPs) can be provided on the NHS, which for example involve the use of a drill, but there does not seem to be consensus on what treatments are permitted.
        More procedures are available privately because dentists are not governed by the same sanctions and dentists’ leaders say they are able to recoup the costs of enhanced PPE and other safeguards.

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Corporations Or People.

      When ever capitalism is in trouble, that's when it shows its true colours, its callous and brutal plundering, like 2008, when they engineered trillions of taxpayers cash into their diminishing coffers after their insane gambling spree.

     Now here we are with humanity facing one of the worst pandemics in living memory, and capitalism is on its knees, time to get their grub thieving hands on more of taxpayers money, to safeguard their shareholders. Here in the UK our lords and masters are literally throwing billions of pounds at big business, with the pretext that they are thinking of the ordinary people by saving their jobs, shear bullshit. Other countries are of course following, suit the US being a prime example.

     30% of the American population may soon be out of work, people are struggling to afford the basic necessities, food and rent becoming luxuries. While this hell goes on for the ordinary people, Boeing is demanding a $60 billion bailout of taxpayers money, which will go to bailout their shareholders and CEO. This will debated in the Senate today, and will no doubt pass with a nod of the corporate beast's buddies, sitting there with the taxpayers purse strings in their grubby little hands.

     There should be  a forceful demand from us the ordinary people, that ensures any bailout is to help the people who are at the real cutting edge of this tragedy, the ordinary people. Pour billions and trillions into the protection and safety of people and to hell with shareholders and CEO. We built this world, after this disaster we can build a better world, free from shareholders and CEO, free from the destructive greed driven profit motive.

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