The Thirty-nineth Day: 30 April 2020

The Thirty-nineth Day: 30 April 2020 (171,253 confirmed infected, 26,771 died, in total)

"I do think that face coverings will be useful both for epidemiological reasons but also for giving people confidence they can go back to work." – Boris Johnson

The Prime Minister made his first daily coronavirus press briefing after his recovery from the coronavirus. No more discussion is needed on whether we shall put on face masks; no more throwing mud on each other between the countries, too, please. But it seems as long as some sort of “people governing people” still exists, there will be politics, there will be politicians, and there will not be real truth for the general public. Politicians cannot lead their country without telling lies to some degree. They consider and handle matters from the perspective of governing the country, not possible from a pure scientific or medical point of view. This is the case in the so-called “authoritarian” countries, so is it in the western democratic countries, too.

I am not an anarchist, but I believe one day people will not be governed by another person or a certain group of people. By that time, when archaeologists or sociologists will study about “government”, it will just like what we look back on slavery now.

We dropped at Heathrow Airport this evening, as actually I have been looking for a way to go back to China for weeks. But there is only one flight a week I can make a try, for the pandemic is still ravaging in the UK, meanwhile China is making all its endeavour to fend off the virus from reversely importing to China.

I still did not have luck today. But I did witness a slack Heathrow Airport. Terminal 3 and 4 are closed; carparks are empty; one has to wait for quite a long time to see an airplane taking off or landing. These are incredible during normal times at this one of the busiest airports around the world.

30 April 2020: A quiet Heathrow Airport, where typically rows of headlights of queuing landing planes can be seen in the sky in normal times. But today, only moonlight.

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