The Corona Diaries – Day 194

Posted on by Opher

It was another nice sunny day in Yorkshire. As there are not likely to be too many of those left before winter kicks in we decided to go out for a long walk to Robin Hoods Bay. I had to wade through icy water! Yes, icy water! What next???

But it was beautiful – a strange misty magnificence – I’ll put up some photos tomorrow.

We had fish and chips overlooking the bay with the limestone shelving exposed and big waves rolling in. Exquisite.

The shore was covered with mounds of kelp – I guess it’s been rough.

Back home I’m about to start doing a bit of my Harper book and I’m playing some Esquerita. Fabulous. I needed something to cheer me up after watching a dire football match.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland – the number of new cases in the UK soars up to 12,872 with another 49 deaths!! That looks as dire as the football!!

Johnson’s response is to say that we’ll have a bumpy ride until Christmas – possibly the new year. Try calling dying of Covid-19 bumpy!! This isn’t a fairground ride!! These are deaths.

Keir Starmer says that the government has lost control of the virus – he’s right! They have!! Ineptitude, stupidity, complacency and daftness!

I’ve said it before – when you put a clown in charge you get a circus!

Starmer laid out a five point plan that makes sense to me:

Explain decisions on what criteria are being used for lockdowns. In fact explain everything!! We are being treated like fools with dithering and vacillation. Some decisions look more political than medical!!

Use messaging to give out more local details.

Use the local NHS for testing, tracing and generally everything. Stop employing dunces like Dido Harding and Serco!

Regularly test all frontline staff. That’s obvious isn’t it??

Outline the way a vaccine would be distributed and administered – use the bloody NHS!! Put extra funding and staff in – but use the existing structure!!!

Bloody hell! I despair!

Stay safe everyone!

The Corona Diaries – Day 193

Posted on by Opher

A dreary day here in Yorkshire – not much fun to go out in the rain – so I stayed in and sadly did my 45 mins of jogging indoors. I’m keeping up my fitness, doing my steps and getting into better shape than Trump or Johnson.

I’ve been working on my Harper book and playing some Otis Rush. It’s amazing how quickly the days are passing. 193 – it’s well over half a year!

I’ve just been talking to a friend – he and his wife have been really ill. It sounded like Covid to me but they didn’t get tested.

I think the public in general are still bemused by the policies. As a society perhaps we need to get our values right – births, funerals and weddings have been severely hit with all manner of restrictions – but pubs are fine!

Fines are being handed out to the general public for breaching the rules but not to Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s Dad, Margaret Ferrier or Jeremy Corbyn. Smacks of unfairness. They should be made an example of not let off Scot-free. (Notice the little dig).

There is further hypocrisy with Twitter. It seems you are not allowed to send a tweet wishing him dead or really ill. Tweets will be removed. Yet millions of people receive death threats and abuse on a daily basis. Why are they protecting that evil arrogant fool and not ordinary people?

I notice that many of the well-wishes for Trump have added a barb or two. This was from China:

“President Trump and the first lady have paid the price for his gamble to play down the COVID-19,”

But not only has he brought this on himself but he has encouraged the American people to behave as stupidly as him. The event in the White House Rose Garden was a good example – a big gathering, no masks or social distancing, handshakes and hugs. They were asking for trouble. No wonder a number of them have gone down with the disease. They deserve it.

So far three Republican senators have contracted the disease. Perhaps there is a god? It throws the Ginsburg replacement into a bit of doubt. The immoral bastards were hoping to rush it through. Maybe the Democrats should rush it through and chuck it out??

In the UK we have another 6,998 new cases and deaths jump to 79.

In the USA its gone up to 48,252 new cases (including the Rose Garden idiots) and 863 deaths.

In Brazil its 33,431 new cases and 708 deaths.

We’re all a bunch of fools being led by morons. The whole world’s in a mess!

Stay safe – hopefully all the idiots will not wear masks or distance, will eat their burgers and french fries, and all die off!

That’s evolution! Survival of the fittest!