27 March - It’s getting closer
Only yesterday I said that
I knew no one with the bug; not any more. The
brother of a friend has it plus his two children, and his wife is in hospital. I have not seen any
of them for about five years and fortunately my friend hasn’t either for a month
or so. It is is a timely reminder that no one is safe unless they stay indoors and that can be very difficult.
I have not been in a supermarket since last Thursday but I have had an SOS from
the East Ham carer that she needs kitchen bin bags and I am not at all sure it
is worth popping into Sainsbury’s just for that. (Are you listening Danny?) It
is not as though Newham Council’s refuse services are good enough to make one think that clean bins are a priority.
Keen as I am that people behave sensibly I cannot quite get my head around the
reaction of some police forces around the country. Allegedly fining someone who
had a birthday card in his shopping basket of essential goods and rather more reliable
evidence that Derby Police think flying drones over cars that have been driven to
places of exercise - a wide open National Park - is a sensible use of resources.
Have they really not got any more important matters to attend to or is their
senior management lacking in common sense?
A local equivalent might be people living on the narrow streets of Erith driving
to Frank’s Park or Lesnes Abbey in order to better observe the two metre rule.
The argument that they might have a car accident is nonsense. Everyone should know
that most accidents occur in the home especially when the unskilled are being
nagged into DIY projects to pass the time.
Meanwhile the tubes are still crowded and buses are to run to a Sunday timetable.
It is too easy to sleep walk into a Police State because too many police
officers are power obsessed but maybe that is the biased opinion of someone
who has had a distant relative murdered by corrupt police, seen that murder
covered up by a succession of Commissioners including the present one who has
frustrated the Home Office enquiry over several years and that is without mentioning being
attacked three times by the police in Bexley for providing news here. Not one
check on whether Councillor’s complaints have been justified. No action
eventually because there was no justification. It makes it hard for this law
abiding citizen - not even a parking ticket ever - to have any respect for the police.
I watched one of those fly on the wall cop shows on a friend’s TV a couple of
months ago and found myself rooting for the fugitives. Worrying, but that is the
corner a politically correct, overzealous, Common Purpose, frequently not too
bright bunch of greasy pole climbing senior officers eventually drives one into.
They should act in a reasonable fashion with their heads fully engaged or the rot might spread.