The Corona Diaries – Day 107.

Posted on by Opher

As the restrictions ease even further there were still 571 new cases reported yesterday. That is not going down. It has plateaued. We’ll see how this progresses. I have no confidence in these clowns.

I’m wondering what spin Johnson is going to put on his world-beating performance! More deaths per million than just about everyone! But not by any fluke – sheer incompetence, bad planning and ideology.

The USA is shooting up with nearly sixty thousand new cases. It’s completely out of control as the whole virus issue has stupidly become political with people refusing to distance, wear masks or take it seriously. There were another thousand deaths and it’s going to get a lot worse.

One can only hope that Bolsonaro gets a bad dose so that he starts taking it seriously. His attitude and poor leadership has killed thousands.

Then India is looking in a mess and I haven’t heard much about Africa or those migrant camps.

The problem with the world is that we are all so interconnected. When something goes wrong in one part of the world it has knock-on effects everywhere else.

What we need is a strong WHO but with Trump pulling out it is looking dire. This guy is a real liability to everybody.

So today I played my Peter Green and moved furniture around for a new carpet to be fitted. I watched some cricket and went for a walk. I saw an amazing stoat and climbed my hill. This lockdown has seen me walking 10K a day (that’s 107 consecutive 10Ks) and I’m much fitter and thirteen pounds lighter. There are good things coming out of all this!

Stay safe!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 107

Posted on by Opher

What is quite apparent (and disturbing) is that despite their obvious ineptitude the Tories are maintaining a lead (if a little reduced) over Labour. Johnson appears to have been able to ride out the Cummings fiasco and diverted attention away from his incompetence. He is also hiding the gravity of the Brexit situation from public view.

You have to give him credit; he’s a first-class conman.

Whether, once this mess is over, the proper scrutiny of government actions will take place, is anybody’s guess. They have the media in their pocket. But surely questions about the Cygnus report, the lack of PPE, the state of the NHS which has been run down under the Tories, the lack of beds and ventilators, the way the elderly were treated, the fiasco of the Test and Trace app, the inept Test and Trace system and the timing of lockdown, must all come into play? We don’t get to have the worst record in Europe for nothing!

For all his jolly cheer leading real leadership has been sadly lacking. I think they have shown up Johnson for what he is – an empty puppet, lazy and incompetent, operated by Cummings. The sooner the electorate wakes up to that, the better. We’ll see what happens when the job losses kick in and are compounded by job losses from Brexit. Maybe reality will hit home.

Meanwhile in the USA Corona is getting out of control. A combination of opening too soon coupled with a lot of denial and stupid behaviour has created the highest rise in new cases yet. Trump is trying to pass it off as a result of more testing but that isn’t the case. It’s bad management and poor leadership.

The number of new cases is still over 900. It appears to have plateaued. Time will tell if it will come down or go into a second surge. My money’s on a surge.  Until the government get their track and trace going properly I don’t think we’ll be in control.

Sadly it seems that now we are coming out of lockdown no lessons have been learnt. The roads are back to normal. Nature is on the retreat. I was hoping for more working from home and less traffic.

Today is a miserable day. It’s cold and wet. The T-shirt, shorts and sandals are back in the cupboard. I’m back in trousers, shoes, jacket and rainproof. I even wore gloves for my walk! Did not see any nature at all. The animals were all sheltering.

So I went back home, put on my Tom Robinson Band and started sorting photos!

Stay safe everyone!