How to make the best of COVID-19

 COVID-19 is no joke and a huge risk for our planet.

After reaching a quarter million deaths in Europe only the trend seems to only go up and is making the EU restricting our basic freedoms in the hope to mitigate the virus expansion.

We can expect a 2020 with more than 1,5 million people to die from diseases of the circulatory system and more than 1 million of cancer related deaths. Diseases of the respiratory system should also rise near half a million casualties too.

Sadly the EU does not invest or restrict anything regarding those issues. Unhealthy food, tobacco and cancer risks can wait. But this is not what I had in mind today.

With all economy going South we should use this disgrace as an opportunity to change some of the wrong in our economy.

Here a short list that should be applied as an emergency patch:

GOVERNMENT

1 - reduce the number of politicians to two thirds in every Government.

2 - Cancel the right to hold more than one job when working in the Government (Looking at you Portugal)

3 - Readjust pensions to % of time worked instead of holded office full pension.

4 - Mandatory limited mandates and an age limit identical to each country pension age.

5 - Limited assistants to 3

6 - No more cooks, drivers, free appartments, free this, free that. You serve the country not the opposite.

7 - Reduce the salaries of all politicians. Deputies make nearly 5 times the minimum wage in Portugal. President makes 10 times more. All with special anemities. Public companies administrators salaries are just insane.

8 - Lean Sigma the shit of the Public Offices. Too many managers for to little workers. Excel pushers and team meeting lovers are in too big number. You lead a team being in the team. 

With this money and reduction money can be redirected to where it is actually needed.

US 2020 Elections: why things can still go wrong, or how things can go 2020 style?

Change, everybody wants change.

Trump was one of them and as it stands today he will leave the White House next January 2021.

Till then, many things can still happen. Trump will obviously look to challenge in court some vote counting in many states and, it is still a big question mark if this was a boast or just the plain truth. The mainstream news channels didn't let their President talk about it claiming it was a conspiracy theory. Showing again that they are far from independent journalists. They should report and not decide who is right or wrong. After 3 years of claiming that Russiagate was real and no proof was given they hammered Trump for it. Now they decide that when Trump claims that votes were added to turn the vote to Biden, they simply deny it. 

If Trump can prove it, the Presidential Race will change sides in no time. If not, the Democrats will be able to hold their breath a little longer for Biden to be President of the USA. As another unusual thing can happen. Biden dying. I don't believe he is capable of staying alive for all the duration of the mandate so Harris will jump in sooner or later.

From a Democrat point of view should Biden die before the electoral college vote the party would decide on whom to put on the presidential ticket. Clinton would probably try to take the election on her side.

After the 15th of December but before the 6th of January the decision would be on the Congress side to accept Harris as the presidential candidate or not, validating the votes for her instead of Biden. With a Republican Congress the decision would be no for sure.

Then the fun part comes: the House of Representatives would have to decide who between the surviving candidates would be President. Even with a majority of Democrats in it, they would have to choose Trump or, God forbid, Jo Jorgensen.