The Iraqi health ministry on Sunday warned of a “dangerous” surge in coronavirus cases across the country as a result of people straying from preventive health measures.
The spokesperson to the ministry Saif Badr told Rudaw Radio that the current wave of the coronavirus is spreading quickly, noting that “30 percent of tests are positive.”
“In the past few days, we have had 2000-3000 cases daily, and the number of cases is increasing dangerously,” Badr said. “The reason is that people do not abide by the preventive health measures.”
As we frequently note, Iraq has no prime minister or president. Elections were October 10th. Still nothing.
You have to wonder what the Iraqi people think?
Makes me think of Grace Slick in that 1970 interview she did with Ben Fong-Torress for ROLLING STONE:
Grace Slick: Ideal government would be a very boring job -- it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that. It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people -- that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job -- in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control -- I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing -- writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area -- but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.
Ben Fong-Torres: And you’d be willing to give part of your time.
Grace Slick: Sure, if you reduce government to the level of just paperwork and making sure that train gets to that city with this amount of stuff on it for that amount of people. I[d do it, that'd be fantastic. It goes at a snail's pace, but just because of fantastic ideas that people have, a small portion of it gets done. I was talking to Paul about Da Vinci sitting around drawing -- he's drawing submarines and things that go up in the air and all that kind of stuff, but a lot of it, in fact, all of those drawings are flying around now and doing stuff under oceans. It sounds silly at a certain point in history, but at another point it isn't going to be silly, it'll be a reality.Maybe there is something to be learned from Iraq's inability to form a government -- inability for eight months and counting.
