Liz has gone down with Covid but I’m still testing negative. She’s OK but a bit bored and miserable – not feeling good. She’s the world’s worst patient!! (I’m second worst!). I don’t like feeling ill. I was feeling groggy at the weekend but I tested negative there too. Perhaps it’s just that I’m not very good at doing the test??
It impacted on my day. I stayed in and played some Nick Drake. Nice.
I’ve sent my Captain Beefheart book off and am feeling at a bit of a loose end, lacking in energy, lacking in enthusiasm. Can’t be asked to do anything – can’t even be bothered to read! I finished my Stephen King book yesterday. I do find him a very easy to read writer. He drags you in. I’ve now got two books in front of me – Jasper Fforde’s Lost in a Story and Haruki Murakami First Person Singular. I may do both at the same time. They’re bound to be very different.
Meanwhile, out in Coronaland, I remain amazed. Incredibly the Tories are rising in the polls. Labour are only six points clear. How can that be? The British people are too stupid, too gullible. How can anybody be taken in by Johnson??
I was listening to a programme about the USA, the Republican Party, Trump and QAnon. The eclipse of rational thought – more like the collapse of intelligence. We have all the world’s knowledge at our fingertips and yet fools choose to access porn, mindless garbage and conspiracy.
Paul Simon says in the Boxer that a ‘man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest’.
Somehow it is easier for some people to believe that alien, baby-eating lizards are running the world than to accept that Trump is a billionaire conman. One of those is obvious and one is farcical.
I think people have been watching too much ‘Game of Thrones’. They’ve lost touch with reality.
Here in the UK a court has found that Matt Hancock broke the law when he gave all those billions to Dildo Harding – not that anybody cares. He might have broken laws, lied, killed tens of thousands through stupidity and incompetence, wasted tens of billions – but he got covid done!!
Just like he got Brexit done – even if it breaks the country.
I give up on people. I feel like taking myself away from people – far far away – where I don’t have to witness their violence, cruelty and stupidity.
Everything just gets worse and worse. We’re condoning greed, lies and incompetence. We’re allowing the rich to destroy the planet for profit. It’s too depressing.
So yesterday, in the pandemic that is almost officially over there were 46,186 new cases with 234 deaths. Get back to work plebs! Die for your country!! Listen to the right-wing propaganda – Covid is a control conspiracy!
Djokovic is a lesson for us all. Give up on science and medicine – just dangle a clove of garlic around your neck.
It seems that Omicron does not give any protection against other strains! Ho hum!!
Stay safe!! We live in a world of greedy morons.