Friday comes bringing rain, mostly.
I’ve said a number of times over the last six months that I found tuning out of the news quite helpful for removing a lot of noise out of life. Over the past few days, I’ve found myself dipping back in. I’ll need to stop again as it just gets me cross..
There was something I read a week or so ago and I can’t remember where. It was talking about the fires on the Pacific West Coast of the USA although specifically focusing on California. The argument was that the fires and Covid were two separate disasters at the best of times; put them together and you have a catastrophe.
We have something similar happening here, and the two simultaneous disasters are Covid and Brexit (and don’t get me started on the Scot. Nats. who look at Brexit and think ooh! We’ll have some of that too; stick a kilt on it and call it Independence). What we also have in common with the US is an incompetent, corrupt government whose every utterance has to be disregarded because no-one believe a word that comes out of their lying mouths.
And I think it’s going to get worse.
I put the following on twitter earlier:
GIven the rise in cases, and what everyone said about Britain's slowness to act in March, the logical choice is either (a) restore lockdown now ahead of the curve or (b) implement an effective alternative. Given the lack of (b), I presume lockdown is now imminent.
— Ian Burdon (@Cosmic_Serf) September 11, 2020
My pal Keith on WhatsApp reckons us oldies will be asked to shield but there’ll be no general lockdown. He might be right, but, as Harrison Ford is wont to say, I have a bad feeling about this.
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Music. Tina Weymouth; Tom Tom Club.
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