The Corona Diaries – Day 506

We have grandchildren staying with us for a few days so life is jolted out of routine. No writing or editing for a couple of days. We had a walk around the village and went off to visit the Eden Camp – an ex-prisoner-of -war camp that is a museum about war. So much to read. I’m not sure the grandchildren really took in much of the experience though. They enjoyed the adventure playground though.

Meanwhile, in Coronaland, our bungling clown of a PM and his sleazy crew, are bumbling their way through. Each day is so tough. They work flat out day and night. There are millions to be made. They don’t want to miss out. Negotiating cuts for lucrative contracts, organising bank drops in the Cayman Islands, negotiating positions on boards and advisory roles to step into when they retire, networking for future career opportunities, purchasing and destroying burner phones. It takes so much time and effort. Then there is all that annoying business of trying to govern the country, deal with a pandemic, cover up for Brexit failures and blunders. So annoying. Fortunately Covid has stopped them from having to be accountable for their ineptitude and Johnson is refusing to allow any of them on any media show that might ask awkward questions. Parliament is not functioning because of social distancing. So nobody is being held to account; nobody is being quizzed over mistakes; nobody is investigated, scrutinized or questioned. It frees them all for the main job – which, of course, is making lots of money and stuffing it off-shore!! Aaah the life of a Tory!! So hard!!

Having clogged the BBC with Tories and owning the newspaper so that they do a nice job of pouring out Tory propaganda, helps such a lot! and the people are believing it too! Still 6 points up in the polls.

Can do exactly what they want!! No accountability!!

So we have another 33,074 new cases with another 100 dead.

Meanwhile, out in the States the Trumpist Baptists don’t believe in Covid! No siree!! You don’t wear a mask in their services. Jesus protects them all!! Lordy Lordy!! Masks are banned!! Why get vaccinated when Jesus loves you!! Forget science – God protects the faithful! Which is exactly the reason why, in the Trumpist States the hospitals are clogged and people are dying like flies.

Evolution works!! The unfittest are being weeded out!! Trump better make a come-back soon while he’s still got some supporters left! Perhaps they’ll change the holy water to bleach!!

Sometimes the sheer ignorance and stupidity of people amazes me.

Yes, the earth is flat, we never went to the moon, the UN white hats are all rapists, Democrats eat babies and the alien lizards are in charge!

Stupid uneducated, brainwashed fools!!

Covid loves tight packed churches without masks and everybody delirious shouting out in tongues!! Go on – Jesus loves you. He’s coming back tomorrow!! He’ll be coughing his lungs up with the rest of you.

What can Biden do about ingrained stupidity??

Over here the old folk are being preyed upon by fraudsters trying to sell them jabs!

In Germany an antivaxxer nurse was injecting people with saline. I think that counts as murder.

In the UK they estimate that the vaccine has already saved 84,000 lives!!

Mind you Johnson has killed 131,000!!! While Jacinda Ardern has managed to keep the total deaths down to 26!!

We wouldn’t be in this mess if he had acted quickly, brought in border controls and quarantine, locked down sooner, opened up later, not brought in silly eat out and back to work schemes, locked down soon, not allowed the Indian variant in and given T&T to a competent organisation – like the NHS.

We elected a plonker – now we are paying the price!!

The trouble is that people are gullible. They believe all that jolly Boris shit, all those silly lying soundbites – oven-ready, world-beating. He’s a world-beating liar, a self-serving chancers and an over-privileged nincompoop!!

You can see how daft people are by the way all the covid myths continue – it can make you infertile, it’s unproven, it’ll kill your baby. Yeah right – and we never went to the moon, Trump was on the side of working Americans and there is no global warming!!

Stay safe!! We are being led by morons who are making a fortune for themselves!!

I walked up my hill in warm sunshine. You could tell the traffic was back to normal after the pandemic – one squashed toad and one smashed hare! So much for – ‘Everything will be different after the pandemic – it’ll never go back to how it was’.

It has.

Maybe they’ll be some differences. Some firms will keep up working from home. Makes sense to me. Zoom meetings have caught on. Why travel half the country to meet up? Why waste hours and hours in fraught commuting if it can be done from home? Alright. I can see that it is also good to meet up and exchange ideas and for the social side of work. Perhaps a hybrid solution is best? Hot desk the office. Do a two days in three days out. It would certainly help the work/life balance.

I work from home – though if I was still teaching I would not be in favour of remote learning. Some jobs need the human touch!

So I’ve been playing some Harper – Burn the World – which seems incredibly appropriate with all the fires raging around the world as global warming starts to take hold. Perhaps people and governments will finally start to take note and do something?? We’ll probably need a few more catastrophes of epic proportions before anything really happens!

I’ve been editing and writing, sorting photos and working on the book. I’m now on page 236 of 321 so there is light at the end of the tunnel.

It’s getting a bit frustrating. I want the text to bleed around the photos but leave the captions in place. I don’t seem able to do it. My lack of IT skills bugs me!! I spend hours on silly things like this.

Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, the number of new cases has jumped 4000 to 33,074 with another 94 deaths. I bet Johnson is so glad he invited the variant in from India!! I bet he is also so pleased that he put the useless Dido Harding in charge of a £37 billion waste of space Track and Trace. Never mind, all the self-serving greedy Tory profiteers have been cashing in and filling their pockets on the grubby proceeds of Covid and Brexit!! We’re all in it together!! It’s the Eton way! Snouts in the trough!!

Never in history has so much been taken by so few!

They are getting worried about September. We have 40 million double jabbed but that means we have 27 million who are not. The virus can be transmitted, all-be-it at a lower rate, by vaccinated people. That’s incredibly bad news for all the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated are going to pay a big price. The young will most probably be alright, but this Indian variant is making young people much more ill, but the older antivaxxers will be hit hard. Most of the hospital cases are now unvaccinated. I expect that to get a lot worse in September. We could be in for a major surge and a bit rise in hospital cases and deaths as the antivaxxers become infected.

We’ll see how much of a hoax it is then, won’t we?

I notice that in the States the biggest indicator of whether you are double jabbed or not is how you voted. Expect the Trump followers to be thinned out a bit in the next few months.

Reports on the clotting problems for the AstraZeneca vaccine indicate a rate of 1 in 50,000 for the under 50s and 1 in 100,000 for the over 50s. Not bad odds I’d say. Certainly a hell of a lot better than getting the disease.

Recent data from the Netherlands and France suggest that of the patients with coronavirus who are admitted to intensive care units (ICU), 30-70% develop blood clots in the deep veins of the legs, or in the lungs. Around one in four coronavirus patients admitted to ICU will develop a pulmonary embolism.

I had the Pfizer but I wouldn’t have been bothered if it had been the AZ. At those odds it isn’t worth worrying about. More dangerous crossing the road.

Schools are now deploying air purifiers fitted with UV and virus filters. Sounds like a good idea to me!!

Stay safe!! Get purified!!