5 January - Question everything. Very little adds up
Questioning some of the statistics associated with the Covid pandemic has
provoked the poisonous and illiterate green ink comprehension failures just as being
pro-Brexit did five years ago. “Nazi, fascist, traitor, moron, bigot, loon and evil f**ker.’
Now it is alleged that I am looking for more deaths despite never suggesting
divergence from the various lockdown rules and sticking by them more religiously
than most. Pointing out that some of the statistics don’t seem to add up is not
yet illegal although it can get you banned from the censorious Twitter and YouTube.
I doubt that anyone has ever gone
with an open mind to a public meeting with Boris Johnson and not
come away with the idea that he is a question dodging liar which his
employment and dismissal record suggests is a fair assessment. It is an appalling indictment
of UK politics that he was and may still be the best on offer for the job of Prime Minister.
There is no doubt that hospitals have filled up as they always do at this time
of the year and some people are getting very sick indeed. My score of people I
know with Covid has risen from zero to four and, as of yesterday, six since
Christmas. One now recovering described it as a horrendous experience, another
is in no position to give an opinion; in a coma and given a 10% chance of
survival. (60 and not in good health previously.)
It doesn’t
stop me querying the figures and noting how Government Ministers dodge every probing question.
The PCR test can be set to deliver whatever positive rate the
Government decrees will fit its strategy of the moment. If the
vaccine, God forbid, is not as effective as I hope it is they can turn down the PCR
test cycles a notch or two and see ‘case’ numbers fall to fool the gullible. It
is technically possible.
Question everything this Government does. A Government that has through OFCOM made it illegal for
the media to preach a view contrary to its own.
The all Ireland map is something else that gives rise to suspicions. A pretty
much open border but very different ‘case’ numbers. Is it a case of different
test regimes or is Covid scared of Leprechauns?
Apparently we are in Tier 5 or Tier4+ or whatever it is to be called from tomorrow and
it has been introduced in the most ham fisted way. My Granddaughter went back to
school for one day yesterday. Whatever one’s point of view that has to be nonsense.
Tier 2 right through to Tier 5 in London is not affecting me much. I have been
staying in and not taking as much exercise as I should but having lived alone
for nigh on 40 years I am not much bothered by increased isolation.
Spare a thought, I doubt Johnson ever does, for those who are new to it or maybe have just a young child for
company. It must be intolerable and I have heard their tears on the radio. Not
BBC radio perhaps which Twittere suggests is an unquestioning lockdown enthusiast.
Fortunately I don’t have
serious family worries either. My daughter and her partner are both in the shielding category but she has worked from home
every day on full pay. My son runs his own business but has not laid anyone
off, furloughed no one, not taken any government money and his company is doing better than ever.
Despite that I regard another couple of months of lockdown as an almost
intolerable imposition by a Government that has done very little it can honestly boast about
and if they meet the vaccination targets it will be amazing in more sense than one.
Right; how to fill the rest of the day? Raid the fridge and restore some more
old blogs probably. It’s one endless round of get up, eat, and go to bed and I am
one of the lucky ones. Look out for your friends and neighbours.