Ok social distancing may have gone out of the window in my country but really. In the farmers field as well. Boris Johnson wants to go for the herd immunity approach. Well here it clearly is in operation.
Spain have deemed it’s not safe to open schools up until September. On Monday Boris Johnson is trying to force some English schools to open. According to him – it’s safe. According to an increasing number of the scientists who advise him – it is not.
Over the last three days Spain has has 3 Covid related deaths. The UK has had over a 1000 covid deaths in the same period. Let’s put that further into perspective. The UK total covid deaths yesterday was more than the combined numbers across most of Europe. Adding together the covid related deaths in Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Turkey, Portugal, Belgium, Ireland and Poland and the number is still much lower than here in the UK. This is a virus which has not yet been contained. Yet our Government tells a different story.
Johnson is not fit to lead. He is not my PM. I will ignore him and we will chart our own course. This is one household where schools are most certainly NOT reopening in June….
Many other people are now completely ignoring this shambolic government. People are making their own rules up.
- When to go out and when to stay in.
- If they use a face mask (if ever) and what type of mask to use.
- How close to stand next to someone.
- To self isolate or not. What symptoms to look for and what symptoms to ignore.
- When to go to work and when not to.
- When to stockpile and when not to.
- Whether they limit travel or are free to travel as far as they like.
- To use the incomplete contract tracing system or not.
- Using public transport or not.
- To go to a packed beach or not.
- And yes to send kids back to school or not.
I can’t blame people for doing this. I’m doing it. That’s what people do when you give clowns and charlatans the keys to power. My worry is this
Yes many will be cautious and act responsibly. But how many will be reckless and endanger the wider population. From the photos and videos the answer appears to be – far too many.
That’s so stupid. Every country needs to make their own decisions due to their specific situation. You cannot open up only because any other country does… oh, well…
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That’s the thing. Johnson doesn’t want Europe to open before us, he wants to beat them. The bloke is a Muppet.
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That describes him well!
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Guess who has been humming a Brotherhood of Man song all day…..
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LOL!!! Once it is in your ear, it doesn’t leave again… haha.
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Still singing it.
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😄👍🎶
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🙏x
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Once again, I’m very happy the our Governor and the Orange Idjit are at odds. I’d be afraid to live in a state ruled by one of his sycophant buddies.
California went into lockdown before UK and just recently opened parks & beaches for exercising. No sitting, no stopping, no socializing.
June 1 they’re going to allow more businesses to open for curbside pickup, socializing with family or friends at a distance. Taking it slow and watching the numbers.
I can just imagine Boris & the Orange Idjit in the field trying to tip those poor cows🙄💌
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Agree. I’m from Michigan and our governor is doing everything she can to keep us safe.
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Sounds like a better plan.
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Surely both our countries should be so much better at this sort of thing. Given we are supposed to have resources and state of the art tech. x
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I’m with you Gary.
TPTB are shitting bricks because the economy is failing, unemployment is due to rocket, and they’ve suddenly realised that once again they can’t make good on their promises for funding as they have no idea how they are going to find the money in the first place.
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It’s a shambles. Then you hear Cummings rates himself cleverer than the scientists and Johnson doesn’t bother reading the science briefings.
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He wouldn’t understand them!
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That’s true.
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Yep
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🙏
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Thankfully there are many in all our countries who agree with your enlightened approach. I am beyond appalled at some leadership, including Boris and Trump. How did our world get this way? Through greed? Methinks through lies. 😥
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It is greed. Too many are happy to go along with the lies.
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Erika’s right but surely slow and steady with clear rules is the way to go. In France people have by and large toed the line, acting responsibly, sensibly, observing protocols and showing consideration for others. We’re enjoying a gorgeously, sunny bank holiday weekend and we’re not supposed to sit on the beach until Tuesday, but those that were on the beach today were in small, family groups religiously observing social distancing.
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Here too many have just stopped following any precautions.
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Lost faith in the leadership
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Many have.
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Another nincompoop in charge.
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Sadly.
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😞
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Frightening times I think. I will be doing the same as you. I can’t take any risks when so many people are taking huge ones. It’s a total shambles.
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Even the government scientists are breaking ranks now.
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Tough decisions. To open or not to open. My state (I’m in Virginia) chose to reopen statewide yesterday, while the spread is just as hot as a month or two ago. I guess we are adjusting to the new reality, now we all have our masks on, except for the President :). The CDC released new data, to justify the reopening I think, at least I believe is being pushed from the White House to do so. It comes down to youself, do you feel safe to go outside.
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Things do have to reopen. But at the right time and backed by the best we know in science. That’s not happening here.
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In Canada the Premier of Quebec has done much the same things and big surprise the number of cases went up there. Why do such leaders possess not one lick of common sense? Unfortunately it’s a case of every person for themselves. Equally unfortunate is the large number of people who simply don’t care about the common good.
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That’s why I do worry for the UK when June and July comes.
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We have two new cases here after several days of none. So many unknowns, that’s the kicker. And yes, I worry about that second wave as well, being as the Spanish flu killed more people in the second wave than the first. Yikes!
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It is scary.
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Yes it is.
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In my area of Pennsylvania I’m growing frustrated by the number of people who are wearing masks in public just over their mouths, not their noses. I’m not sure if they’re that ignorant or if it’s their way of “following the rules”.
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No rules. Allows people to do daft things.
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As I watch George Floyd riots* break out all over the US, I wonder how much more virus spread is occurring.
*watching the active rioting in LA, it is abundantly obvious that a very large amount of the rioters aren’t there to protest police lawlessness but, rather, let out pent up energy and participate in group violence. Many are posing for pics with burnt vehicles or dancing in the street.
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It’s the same here but with beaches and food markets. Social distancing has suddenly gone out of the window. As true as a cause is surely it still needs to be done to protect others as well.
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Yeah. One of the events that made the news a week ago was a huuuge pool party where people were shoulder to shoulder and not masked. Now someone who was at the event has tested positive.
I woke up and got worried due to having a sore throat, 2 days after getting too close to neighbors. But not only is it not a symptom, I slept with a fan blowing on me all night… that’s what caused it.
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It’s going to be like this for some time to come.
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I saw that George Floyd “protests” were happening in London today.
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Definitely. America seems like a horror movie at present.
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It’s definitely not good! But also not as bad as it looks. A lot of people went out to help clean up damage in the Fairfax district this morning.
Today’s looting has moved to Santa Monica. There’s a “peaceful protest” taking place 2 miles from me right now. But they all start as peaceful protests. This one will definitely turn into looting too.
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The news here is covered with it.
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It was a stunning night. Will be interesting to see if it slows due to being a week day. I think is the Bev Hills business district (aka Rodeo Dr) that’s got 1pm curfew.
I just woke up (10am), haven’t seen today’s updates. Might see some for myself running an errand later… or might just stay home.
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It seems to be bringing out the best in people and the worst in people.
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I might repost a very eloquent video from Trevor Noah. It’s long but insightful.
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We are reopening here too in spite of cases continuing to go up. It seems crazy to me.
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It’s madness.
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It does feel like it. Everyone is rushing …and for what?
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Just no thought seems to be going into it anymore.
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It does feel like someone just flipped a switch doesn’t it. I feel no easing back into life. It’s more like being smacked across the head to be woken from sleep.
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That’s exactly the feel….
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Here in Finland the elementary schools were open for the past two weeks. They say that there were no increase of infections. But we don’t know yet for sure, do we.
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The key is opening them when the virus is under control and the opening is done correctly. Plus they need to be closed if the numbers go up.
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We are at mercy. What can you do? Governments have proved they can’t handle, and you can’t control people… we are at mercy
So it’s rough
We are over here imploding every which way anyway 💔
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It’s truly awful. Here we are waiting for someone to light the fire and we will go the same way.
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It is all such a terrible mess. I am so angry with this dreadful administration.
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Many are.
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Boris has had a shocker. Be careful what one wishes for. I don’t want to say it, but Theresa May must be thinking “have that then Boris”.
For me he’s very much out of his depth!
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He really is
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You have nailed it, Gary
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On this I wish I hadn’t.
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Yes
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I completely agree. That doesn’t make sense. I think June 4th is the day my state is going to be moving to the yellow phase and more things will be opening. We aren’t going to change anything we are doing. We are just going to sit here and watch the numbers, probably well after we move to green as well.
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That is what we are going to do. Look after yourself. x
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I hear your concerns and definitely share them. Let’s see what happens. Stay safe.
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You as well.
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The uk like us shut down too late – the consequence of many more deaths.
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We are opening up with higher death and infection rates than caused the initial lockdown.
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Sheesh. I’m so sorry.
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We are all in a pickle really.
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Are you sure that Boris & Donnie don’t have some shared DNA somewhere along the line? Who knew there were two such fools … and worse yet, that there were enough people to vote for those fools! Sigh. xx
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But still having seen them people still will vote for them.
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The problem for me is that we still don’t know why different countries have had such different results from the virus. Some countries didn’t shut down but had fewer deaths than the UK, so it isn’t just that.
However, it’s clear that we are going back too soon – driven by a desire to stop paying us to stay at home.Scientists and politicians are falling out and the whole thing is a mess.
I will be going to work but we will be sticking to our lockdown procedures as much as possible – shopping on the internet and not going out socially.
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In the absence of any clear national plan then that is all we can do. Just hope it’s right.
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There’s something about the words “clear national plan” that made me smile wistfully. With Northern Ireland, Scotland, Dominic Cummings and Wales all doing their own thing I think the “national” is long gone whilst Boris’s spluttering half-baked sound bites don’t give me much hope for the the “clear” and the “plan”. It’s over to bloggers to do the right thing now.
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It really is. Just got to hope that enough of us do the right thing and the government doesn’t screw things up too much.
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I can hope, but I’m not expecting too much…
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I know what you mean
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🙂
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It’s interesting here. Most of the people protesting for social justice are wearing masks. Most of the ones fighting against them are not.
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Sadly so true. Already the government is trying to blame infections on them.
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