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Monday 16th 42-46F blue skies and sunny. More cloud expected. It was overcast shortly after 8.00. I walked to the lanes in a southerly wind with bare hands. Quite a large bird of prey went past again. I saw it yesterday. A long tail, pointed wing tips and lots of brown and ginger plumage.
I still have brief, repeated attacks of a mild sore throat. It was throbbing on my walk but lasted only briefly. Still only a slightly bunged up nose and occasional wet clearing of my throat. Probably just another mild case of a cold or flu virus.
Today's Pandemic Darwin Award goes to Fat Boris of Broxit. Not only for his lamentable reaction to the pandemic, as a whole. But! For not properly protecting GPs [family doctors] and their equally vital staff.
These absolutely vital people are in the front line of diagnosis, triage and prevention in the wider community. Treat them for the enormous value they represent to the country and the world beyond. Treat them with real respect, real information and real safety equipment to avoid them falling sick.
These real and vital staff want to go on working. Despite your best efforts to be your usual self-important, self-inflating clown. Delusions of grandeur do not make a great PM. Remember that you only got the job because of the absolutely pathetic opposition. With nothing resembling leadership qualities, or even a single, realistic candidate on either side of the house.
Get over yourself and pass the batten to competent, human beings. This brave new world can no longer afford to tolerate clowns working so far above their station. Ambition is not a qualification. It is a weakness in most [supposed] leaders. In your case I use the "leadership" term extremely loosely.
These real and vital staff want to go on working. Despite your best efforts to be your usual self-important, self-inflating clown. Delusions of grandeur do not make a great PM. Remember that you only got the job because of the absolutely pathetic opposition. With nothing resembling leadership qualities, or even a single, realistic candidate on either side of the house.
Get over yourself and pass the batten to competent, human beings. This brave new world can no longer afford to tolerate clowns working so far above their station. Ambition is not a qualification. It is a weakness in most [supposed] leaders. In your case I use the "leadership" term extremely loosely.
Today's discretionary, consolation Darwin Award goes to all the delivery services. Who still haven't thought it through. They are now the most likely avenue of contagion for elderly [and many other] people in home quarantine or voluntarily self-isolating.
With the closure of many other businesses, the parcel delivery services may well become vital but uniquely placed "Super Spreaders." These delivery services and their drivers, still insist on having customers sign their "contagion machines." Just to confirm receipt of a package. With a completely unidentifiable scrawl! It wouldn't matter if a stray dog scratched the bloody screen! So why insist on the customer making their own scrawl?
These machines do not seem to react to hard points. They used to have real pens, or a plastic stylus, but went over to soft touch, fingertip sensitive screens. I tried a large, plastic knitting needle and it didn't register anything! Ideally it ought to be a pencil with an eraser but we don't have one. I'm going to try the chisel point of a large eraser. That can be well cleaned afterwards. I bet the screen isn't wiped with anything between customers! Plastic can hold the virus for a week!
The delivery drivers [sio far] do not remotely [sic] attempt to keep two meters away from the customer. Nor make any real effort to avoid close physical contact. Get your act together!
These machines do not seem to react to hard points. They used to have real pens, or a plastic stylus, but went over to soft touch, fingertip sensitive screens. I tried a large, plastic knitting needle and it didn't register anything! Ideally it ought to be a pencil with an eraser but we don't have one. I'm going to try the chisel point of a large eraser. That can be well cleaned afterwards. I bet the screen isn't wiped with anything between customers! Plastic can hold the virus for a week!
The delivery drivers [sio far] do not remotely [sic] attempt to keep two meters away from the customer. Nor make any real effort to avoid close physical contact. Get your act together!
There is no real choice for those who are self-isolating or in quarantine. They must either order food supplies online. [See risks above] Or make an even more risky visit to the filthy, multi-handling, multi-visitor, hoarder-packed supermarket. Where desperate shoppers must battle with hoarders, who are packed shoulder to shoulder at the checkouts with today's loot.
Supermarkets where the staff have not been given any guidance, whatsoever, to avoid spreading infection. Where the baskets and trolleys have not been cleaned since the first day they arrived, many years ago. Except by accident, before they built a little stabling carport, to stop them rusting prematurely in the rain.
UPDATE: We have just had a small parcel delivered by DHL. The driver was happy to put the parcel safely down outside. So I had no need to handle it without careful preparation and wearing disposable gloves. He left without asking for a signature on his "contagion machine." Though he had it with him. Just in case. A very polite, intelligent and pleasant young chap he was too. Well done DHL!
I've just checked the popular, Danish, online food sales website. Nemlig.dk. Huge numbers of people wanting to order and a 28 minute delay if I chose to join their ordering queue. At least they had all the relevant timing and numbers up front. Not like the Danish Postal service with their endless queues for what they loosely describe as Customer Services.
Supermarkets where the staff have not been given any guidance, whatsoever, to avoid spreading infection. Where the baskets and trolleys have not been cleaned since the first day they arrived, many years ago. Except by accident, before they built a little stabling carport, to stop them rusting prematurely in the rain.
UPDATE: We have just had a small parcel delivered by DHL. The driver was happy to put the parcel safely down outside. So I had no need to handle it without careful preparation and wearing disposable gloves. He left without asking for a signature on his "contagion machine." Though he had it with him. Just in case. A very polite, intelligent and pleasant young chap he was too. Well done DHL!
I've just checked the popular, Danish, online food sales website. Nemlig.dk. Huge numbers of people wanting to order and a 28 minute delay if I chose to join their ordering queue. At least they had all the relevant timing and numbers up front. Not like the Danish Postal service with their endless queues for what they loosely describe as Customer Services.
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