The Corona Diaries – Day 632

Posted on by Opher

It was a very cold day today but the sun was out and that made it feel good. My kestrel flew over my head, the crows were cawing like mad, seagulls glided on the breeze and the trees were skeletons against a misty array of frost-rimed fields.

Back home I’ve been playing some Roy Harper and sorting out CDs.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the bubble has burst; Boris Johnson is no longer viewed as a cute and cuddly messy-haired charmer, he’s now being seen as the lying, scheming, incompetent chancer he is. People are fed up with his promises and bright sunny proclamations. They’ve realised that there is no substance. The flimsy man gabbles away with the first thing that comes into his head gushing out in a string of soundbites, which never amount to anything!! We’re up to the gills with sunny uplands, world-beating Track and Trace, Moonshots, making Britain great again, Global Britain, build back better, levelling up and other vacuous nonsense. It’s all a gush of words. The fabled sunny uplands have proved to be a dreary sewer. The world-beating T&T is a joke. It’s been a big con trick. He’s obfuscated what was really going on. They’ve been greedily grabbing all they could and taking us for fools. A litany of sleaze, corruption and lies.

While this week’s fiascos were plying out Rishi Sunak was out in the States meeting with Health leaders looking to sell off more of our NHS. One minute they’re out there bashing pans and praising the people who saved their lives and the next they’re ushering in the private practice through the backdoor. Who’s making all the money??? Rishi Sunak isn’t short of a bob or two – where’s that coming from? Johnson’s been making a fortune and Rees-Mogg made a killing. How many are pulling in hundreds of thousands from second jobs – lobbying Government? How made of the multimillion-pound contracts went to friends and relatives??

Hopefully, Shropshire will be replicated all over the country and we might get rid of this obnoxious, inept bunch of sleazy scumbags forever!! Wouldn’t it be nice if we never have to suffer the austerity caused by a nasty Conservative Government?

The latest bit of sleazy daftness is that Simon Case, who was appointed to investigate Boris Johnson’s parties, had a party himself!! They were all at it!! What was it Rees-Mogg said? —- Jacob Rees–Mogg says a “convivial fraternal spirit” means the Conservatives do not need to wear masks in the Commons!! Seemingly they can all hold parties in lockdown and make up the rules!! What he really meant was that it really is one rule for them and another for us!!

So yesterday the Covid cases soared to 93,045 with another 146 deaths. There were another 3,201 cases of Omicron though one of the scientists said that it was likely to be at around 200,000 really.

Makes you ponder!

So glad to be retired and triple jabbed!!!

Stay safe!!

The Corona Diaries – Day 362

Posted on by Opher

I stayed in this morning to do some writing on my new Sci-fi novel, I managed to get a page or two completed.

The sun can out at lunchtime and we went for a walk along the beck. It was beautiful and so warm I regretted taking a jacket.

The orchids were just popping out of the grass and we found a beautiful blue heron and two egrets down at the nature reserve. We were going to go back to catch the starling murmuration but the rugby’s on!! I can’t miss that.

Out in Coronaland where Brexit is stirring up shit things are going as usual – up and down. The vaccine is rolling out with 50% of vulnerable adults now vaccinated. Consequently the death-rate is falling dramatically – only a hundred deaths yesterday. Not as good over on the continent where they are being much too slow and are suffering a third wave. There is a lot of bad feeling being stirred up with accusations of us hogging the vaccine. Who knows? Looks to me as if the EU has been too slow at ordering it, that the UK bought it up quick, and the whole silly business has been stirred up by this politically motivated business against the AstraZeneca. There is such a hostile atmosphere because of the way the UK has behaved it is causing irrational behaviour.

I can understand that.

Our incompetent twat of a PM and his arrogant bunch of nationalist extremists drive me mad too!

We are being told not to go to europe this year on holiday. Travel to Greece is being blamed for a spike in cases. There is said to be a number of unknown variants on the continent that the vaccine might be ineffective against. Who knows? They are worried about people bringing them back in.

The sooner the whole world is vaccinated the better!!

I still have not heard about my second shot – most probably in four weeks time! That’ll be OK. I’m looking forward to a more normal summer. The infections rates here are falling fast. With summer on its way even Dido Harding, with £37 billion behind here, can surely isolate and mop up the hotspots?? Maybe not.

Anyway – Stay safe!!