mental health

Today was like most other days. Sorted my blog, wrote a few posts, went for a walk, played some beefheart, video conference with kids. Predictable and tedious!

I reckon we should have the jab in six weeks. What will happen then is uncertain. Having had the vaccine will we be able to see friends and get back to a normal life? Will we be able to travel? I suppose it depends if we can be carriers or not. No doubt they’ll sort that out soon.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland the knives are out for Trump. In the British press they are calling him a fascist. In the US they are calling him unhinged. His ratings have gone through the floor and Republicans are abandoning him. He’s a dead duck and a major liability. The interesting thing is that there are still a number who continue to support him despite what they’ve seen. They still believe his lies.

The worst aspect of his incompetency is the tragic loss of life from Covid-19 – another 3261 deaths yesterday. In the mids of all this these deaths seem to have been swept under the carpet. What is abundantly obvious is that Trump really does not care. All he cares about is power, money, adoration and golf.

The impeachment process starts tomorrow. It’ll be interesting to see if the Republicans have developed any morality and will back it. He needs to go! The other alternative is that he resigns.

I think I prefer impeachment. That’ll stop him having any possibility of coming back and will also expose the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party. They disgust me.

Where did morality go?

In the UK we’re even worse when it comes to Covid. Our invisible clown is presiding over an inept bunch of fools. We had another 1035 deaths yesterday. Compared to New Zealand (just 250 deaths in total) it is appalling. We’ve had extreme cronyism, mess-ups over planning, strategy, PPE, Apps and Track and Trace. They are dithering, not locking down, not closing borders and bringing in stupid schemes like Eat Out To Help Out and Get Back To Work. Pathetic.

The other thing they are doing is flooding everything with bureaucratic red tape. We need everybody who can inject to help but retired nurses are inundated with so much paperwork they are giving up.

It like Brexit for vaccines. Buried under a mound of paperwork.

Anyway, stay safe. Fill in yours forms.

Another sunny, crisp winter day in Yorkshire. Walking up the hill the road was slippery with ice and the grass frozen icicles on frozen mud. The air was clear and blue sky full of infinite wonder. A great day for a walk.

The seagulls were sitting in a row along the roof ridge of the church. One of our pair of Red Kites was perched in the tree at the start of our walk and majestically took to the air as we approached.

Back home I have been listening to the great Bessie Smith and running through the final read-through/edit of my Roy Harper book.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the virus continues to soar! In the USA there are another 152,102 with 1230 deaths. in the UK another 32,340 cases and 347 deaths.

In contrast countries such as Vietnam and New Zealand have no new cases and no deaths! What a contrast.

In the USA Trump continues to play golf while death stalks the country and refuses to sign the bill to give out assistance to fourteen million people. He plays while his people starve and die. A nice guy! Isn’t he supposed to be doing his job? Pathetic.

In the UK our clown basks in the glory of achieving a Brexit agreement with the EU. I think it will be a brief moment of triumph. The nature of the bad deal with soon unravel. The moronic ERG fanatics will see it as capitulation while the reality of the deal will slowly sink in as the unemployment, price rises and extra red tape starts to become apparent.

We’ve wrestled back control into the hands of a bunch of extreme morons. The clowns are running the show!

The new, more virulent, variants are taking over. Man City have suffered a number of cases which has resulted in their league match with Everton being postponed. Are we going to see more of that?

Schools go back next week. Will there be a surge from Christmas? Do we have to have a trade-off to enable the kids to be educated?

I so wish we had a competent PM and government instead of these extreme loonies. They shoved anybody with a scrap of sense out of the party. The ousted have gone very quiet. Are they biding their time? What are the likes of Rory Stewart, Philip Hammond, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Clarke waiting for? Will they pick their moment to spit roast Johnson and his Eton playboys? We’ll see.

The main debate is the sequence of roll-out of the vaccine. Should it first be given to our courageous front line workers – the health workers, carers, teachers, police and shop workers? Or should it be the most vulnerable? With the new variant seemingly affecting young people more, does that alter the priorities?

I would like to see those front line workers getting protection!

Until next time – stay safe!!