22.04.2020 Day 41. And don't call me "deer!"

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Wednesday 22nd 43F, bright sunshine, easterly breeze. A repeat of yesterday's weather. A longer
walk up to the forest. Where there was a flock of twelve to fifteen, large deer. All quietly enjoying the beech woods.

A stag with a huge head of antlers was sitting stage center. Most of the others were unseen until they suddenly fled to a denser part of the woods. You can just see him, or rather his antlers, between the trees.

I saw a pair of Coal tits at the entrance to the portal to the woods. Returning home via the spray tracks provided more photos.

I keep wondering how much longer I can hold out without mentioning "you know what." Perhaps I can talk about its effects without criticizing the transparently guilty?

A spokesperson for the supermarkets said they have enjoyed their worst drop in customer footfalls in history. 

So, you might well ask: Wouldn't this be a perfect moment to provide home deliveries? Perhaps to recapture all the loyal, elderly and terrified customers hiding out at home? Or, would it be so much easier just to take taxpayer handouts to offset their losses? Like the tax-free, offshore, multi-billionaires queuing up in the USA for welfare handouts because they feel "entitled." Or priests demanding the virus welfare checks of their [willfully educationally challenged] congregations. Just so they can afford a third Bentley or second Lamborghini.

Any talk of "flock immunity" is years or even decades away. Which means that billions of customers must still have access to food and essentials. Without ever going out. For quite possibly YEARS TO COME!  Perhaps hermetically sealed, hazard suits and masks will become the norm for outdoorsy wear? Like Levi jeans were compulsory in the 1970s?

Or must we wait until a proven and safe vaccine has been developed? Then applied to 7 billion complaining bods. [Despite all their stone age rituals and utterly insane superstitions.]

There is no proven record of immunity once smitten and the appearance of a full recovery. Second and third waves can easily decimate all that has been done to protect the population [or not] so far. The 1918-20 flu virus killed more in the second, winter wave than the first.

How does 50 million dead [and counting] sound compared to the present few, tens of thousands? Remember how it killed more people than fought to the death in "the war to end all wars?" That war and the following pandemic changed society forever.

Imagine if there were not enough people left to do all those "essential" low paid [modern slavery] jobs? How would society function then? Would that mean even more multi-billionaires having to be bailed out? What if the market for mega-yachts and private, tropical islands collapsed? Wouldn't that be awful?

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