FAKE NEWS EEJITS - QUAD BIKE THEFTS.

 In this day and age when allegations of fake news regularly hits the headlines, it is hard to believe that there are thousands who are still totally convinced that the world wide Covid pandemic is all a giant con, but for what reason ?   One of the UK's leading doubting thomas's  is Piers Corbyn, crackpot brother of Jeremy Corbyn, former Labour Party leader.  How on earth can these folks believe that the countless hours of TV, and miles of news print dedicated to Covid are false. There is a city of  two million people in South America where the virus is out of control and authorities just cannot cope. We have India where they are embarking on an effort to vaccinate one hundred million people, WHY, when and if there is no reason to do so?

Having said all the above, it does not help matters when the TV news showed scenes of a totally normal life in Guernsey, who operated a strict lock down and strong control on travel.  I just felt it did not do us any favours.

In the USA the FBI and law enforcement agencies are now slowly (very slowly) making arrests in connection with the invasion of the Capitol Building,  however, an awful job when the media are identifying people who were involved and knocking doors trying to trace and interview them before the police do.

In case you have not noticed, travel is forbidden except for essential reasons, and somewhere along the line and in the small print, I have yet to see THEFT and CRIME as valid reasons.  In the past weeks there have been a number of thefts of quad bikes and motor cycles in the East and Midlothian areas, mainly from farms and repair shops. The most recent being two quad bikes fitted with snow tracks from a farm near Heriot. In all these cases the culprits must have had other vehicles to hand.  Perhaps we need to do what the French did, and have an 8pm curfew.

Not that I am particularly keen on copying the French at the moment , whose officials are being kind of petty and childish since the Brexit break took place.   An alternative description would be to say they are "playing silly buggers", so hopefully things will turn to bite their bum !!!