Wednesday 27th January 2021

 There was a lot of military aircraft going over last night, dunno what was going on; had a weird dream about cattle for some reason.  Mum caugh isn't too bad today which is good, she was doing some shredding; I thought it was the neighbours using a drill at first.  Tried ringing dad's ward this morning but the nurse was on her break so I had to ring back within an hour.  I get a load of Mozart blasting away when I'm waiting, at least it's the classical version I wish they would play the whole song instead of just the opening intro.

Boris fish face gave a briefing on Tuesday saying he was deeply sorry for all the lives lost, we haven't heard fuck from the Chinese government and I blame them because it was them that caused all this shit.  Some people may disagree with me but they now have avian flue coming from china and I will never buy anything from China now, not ever!

Boris was repeatedly hesitant about taking the country into lockdown - delays of a few days that critics say could have cost thousands of lives, and they may be right.  This year has been everyone's “annus horribilis,” with families torn apart by this wretched disease, their only way of telling loved one's goodbye is through a computer or tablet screen; what about the poor buggers who don't have access to technology?

Believe it or not, we had a practice exercise in case this sort of thing happened!  Codenamed ’Cygnus’ in 2016 found the UK’s preparedness was “not sufficient” for a major flu outbreak; unbelievable but sadly bloody true!!  Should have been codenamed 'the great cockup' instead!

Instead of reading our Covid defences in January and February, the PM celebrated Brexit, spent time at Chequers and sorted his matrimonial arrangements.  Beggars belief!  By the end of January, the virus had spread from China to six countries and the World Health Organisation warned of a “public health emergency of international concern”. I remember reading about it in the newspapers while visiting dad during his first stay in hospital.  None of us realised how bad it would get.

Government advisors warned people should stop shaking hands to slow the spread of coronavirus - on the same day Boris Johnson boasted he’d been shaking hands with “everybody” at a hospital.  No wonder he caught it!

Boris Johnson was accused of dithering over lockdown for a few crucial days in March while the virus spun out of control.  Now, look where we all bloody are! 😠

Even worse was that the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid were allowed to go ahead early in the month while fears mounted.  I find this very stupid and irresponsible, how will this look to historians in years to come?

The Prime Minister announced people to stop all unnecessary social contact on March 16 - before lockdown legally took effect a week later on March 23.  That meant pubs were allowed to stay open for almost a week despite the Prime Minister ordering citizens not to go to them.  SAGE advisor John Edmunds said "poor" data back in March made it hard to "pull the trigger.. but I wish we had, I wish we had gone into lockdown earlier. I think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately.”  Well, he's right there.

Covid-19 ripped through care homes at the start of the pandemic, as elderly people proved extremely vulnerable to the virus.  My friend Penny's mum is in a care home and they stopped all visitors, one couple had to say goodbye to their mother at the top of a ladder looking over a wall into a bedroom.  It emerged that many elderly people were discharged from hospitals into care homes in March to free up beds - without being tested at all, this decision has been blamed for helping the virus to spread.  Government officials said there was no need for staff to wear masks. It was only withdrawn on March 13.

Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has since admitted a major failing was not realising how far the virus could be spread asymptomatically.  This means a person could be infected and not show any symptoms, by which time the damage has been already done.

If anything happens to my parents I will be devastated as they mean the world to me, so does my son.  My mobile phone isn't helping when I text people, it keeps adding words and unwanted shit into my text; keeps putting 'your' every time I write 'they'.

 The government dragged its feet for months over measures to tighten up the UK’s borders - which Priti Patel claimed she’d privately pushed for in March.  Methinks the top brass wanted a majority of people to be 'culled' as I so put it.  The government is finally considering making people quarantine in hotels this week, due to new variants of Covid. Other countries have had the policy for months.  Once again. slow.

Even at the end of February, the government believed it was in a good position - sending more than 600,000 items of PPE to China to help the Wuhan outbreak.  Uh, excuse me what about the UK, sending vital stuff to people who caused the outbreak in the first place! 👿

In the UK, care and health staff complained they were running out of PPE and had to improvise including with bin bags.  Some items hastily ordered through lucrative private sector contracts turned out to be unusable or not to meet government specifications.  They included gowns that were flown in from Turkey on an RAF flight in chaotic scenes and amid several delays.  Basically, cheap !"£$%!  as I said, operation 'the great cockup' was well on it's way.

There will be in future what's known as 'the Covid generation' where scores of school children won't have the same IQ as if this never arrived.  At first, ministers had strict 15-pupil bubbles, but these then extended to whole year groups, essentially making them pointless as a containment strategy.

I have the track and trace on my phone, it didn't seem to work at first very well in shops as the camera wouldn't recognise the barcode.  Despite the £22bn budget for testing and tracing put together, there have been a string of failures with the ‘NHS’ Test and Trace.  

Christmas and Eat Out to Help Out

I remember this in Salisbury, I used to go to a cafe in the marketplace called Stones to take advantage of the deal.  I wasn't very keen on their sausage sarnies as the meat was dry and bland, I love M and S's bangers they are lovely and fat reduced. I also used to go around the museum and sit in the garden, hopefully, I can do that again when the weather improves. 

Well despite all the facts, it's been confirmed that the UK is now the worst-hit country in the world.  All because of the dithering government behaviour and delay's, Brixet should have been put on hold until the virus was sorted out!

There was a photo shown in the paper of what a smoker's lungs compared to the lungs of a covid victim looked like.  The lungs of the Covid victim were far far worse as seen below.

Covid picture

An X-ray of a smoker's lung

Normal lungs