Tuesday October 12th 2021

I went to Castle point yesterday, I meant to go on Saturday, but dad fell out of bed yet again so mum called the emergency services and I had to abandon it to help mum.  dad came back in a wheelchair via taxi (all the seven's). We couldn't get patient transport because it was booked up solid all day, the hospital said dad might have to stay the night if he couldn't get home.  

I pushed him in the wheelchair along with the close. The poor taxi driver was exhausted from pushing the chair and said the hill was a nightmare. He almost lost the grip on the handlebars which would have been awful, I didn't tell dad that.  bloody paving stones kept making the chair jerk, they've even tripped me up when running for the bus!

I went to Devises for a meeting today, I hate crawling out of bed in the early mornings,  heard glass in the distance being emptied into the bins.  It was a double-decker on the way there, a bit of a nightmare going through the villages.  

We talked about climate change which I am passionate about, if the virus doesn't get us then the weather will.  

I'm worried when I speak up in meetings that people might think I'm weird, I tap or shake my foot nervously.  I went to lunch in a cafe ran by Italians, and met a nice couple. The ladies husband was in the Royal Marines so I told them about Serve On and what we do.

I got a load of images to sort out for various art exhibitions which I want to take part in, I'm not going to let anything stop me this time.  I missed the summer exhibition because I was phoning around and chasing up people to get help from my parents.

Boris Johnson is being blamed for being too slow which is true. He relied too much on this 'herd immunity' bullshit which didn't work, and lives were lost pointlessly that could have been saved.  

Elderly people were sent home from the hospital to care homes with the virus, which would wipe out (sometimes) the whole establishment.  40,000 elderly and vulnerable people have died from Covid which could have been prevented.  So how will history see this?  As bungling ministers who couldn't be bothered to act quickly which has cost many lives. This is a damning report by a cross-party group of MPs, into the monumental errors made by ministers in responding to the pandemic.  Ministers ignored warnings, responded with complacency and were too slow to act as per usual.  

Families of those lost say that their loved ones could have survived if the government had acted quicker.  It still manages to identify clear and catastrophic mistakes which led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths; shameful.