Wow, I can't believe it's been almost a fortnight since I posted. I've been pretty busy with work and my daily exercise and my Thirty Day Logo Challenge. That's finished now and I am missing it, I'll have a little break and then find a new challenge to have a go at.
Feeling a bit maudlin this evening. I just watched a documentary by the nurses and doctors at the Royal Gwent Hospital and they ended it by saying that they expect another bigger wave in July and then a HUGE wave in October. They said this virus is going to be around for a long time and there will be numerous waves. How utterly, utterly depressing.
And at the same time Boris fuckwit Johnson has eased the lockdown restrictions in England, however they are so bloody vague and confusing that nobody really knows what to do and their new slogan of STAY ALERT has been lambasted, so much so that even Boris loving Philip Scholfield was apoplectic yesterday. Weirdly Piers Morgan seems to be the only journalist who is actually taking politicians to task. The new sign and slogan has also been the subject of a million different memes on Twitter. This is one of my favourites.
Luckily Mark Drakeford (First Minister of Wales) announced last Friday that the lockdown would be extended in Wales for another three weeks. Thank goodness. Northern Ireland and Scotland have done the same, so it's only England which is encouraging people to go back to work, but avoid public transport if possible and only meet up with one member of your family at a time in a park. WTF?! They also gave some wishy washy advice over wearing masks. Something like 'advised to attempt to wear masks on public transport and in some shops'.
The government keep saying that we are past the peak but they aren't testing 100,000 per day as they promised and another 627 were reported to have died on Covid 19 in the last 24 hours. That doesn't seem like it's past any sort of peak. There are currently 226,000 confirmed cases in the UK and at least 32,692 deaths.
I had a row with my parent last night. They told me of how their close had 'social distancing' street party on Friday to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Lots of idiots did the same across the country, even some of them were doing the bloody conga whilst holding onto a long rope. The BBC showed footage of one street where nobody appeared to be 2 metres from anybody and the reported said that they actually were social distancing and the camera can skew things. See what you think......
So Dad told me how they had a nice time, but once people got drunk some of the neighbours started dragging their chairs closer and closer and one guy was so pissed he was staggering around everywhere. Brilliant, just brilliant.
To top it off Dad complained that the official figures now included both deaths in hospitals AND care homes and he was annoyed that they now no longer knew how many deaths were in a hospital. I asked ' what difference does it make?' He replied 'Well, all the ones in care homes are decrepit and half dead anyway.' My reply was 'Spoken like a true Daily Mail reader!' I was furious. This is what fucking right wing media does to you. It's not as if he's in the prime of his life. He's 78 with prostate cancer and 50% kidney function. They were harping on how only 5 people in their town had died of it, well that's certainly about to change now that Boris has decided that the economy is more important than the lives of the British people.
Today they announced that the furlough scheme would be extended until October. So I'm assuming that they are aware of the peaks that are on the way. Leeds and Reading festival have just been cancelled and I'm now pretty sure that the rearranged September Bearded Theory will be cancelled too. In fact I said in March that I would assume that everything for the year will be cancelled and then if it isn't it will be a nice surprise. I'm not expecting any nice surprises now.
My friend in London appears to have had Covid 19. She had no symptoms whatsoever but had Covid Fingers - red sore fingers. It started in her little finger and slowly spread to her other fingers over a few weeks. The docs reckon she had it, is no longer infectious and that the red fingers are an immune response to the virus. Crazy.
Another friend told of how her niece works in a care home. An assistant came into the canteen and started coughing. Her manager sent her home and the cook immediately came out to sanitise the area. The cook now has Covid 19.
On a brighter note I made a delicious banana bread and butter pudding today. It's so good that I keep going back in for another spoon.
This whole situation is so bizarre. You can get engrossed in something and totally forget that there is a pandemic raging outside and then five minutes later find yourself sobbing your eyes.
I went to a virtual comedy night at the Covid Arms on Saturday. At the end they invited people to dance in their lounges to the Beach Boys and turn their cameras on if they wanted to be on screen. I absolutely sobbed throughout, it was so joyous. It was like the closing scene from Love Actually as the cameras kept increasing in number until they filled the screen. Check it out.
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