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Monday 6th April, 47-66F, clear and bright but breezy again from the south. It is supposed to reach 19C or 66F today but with 20mph+ gusts all day. Yesterday I was working outside at 44F, but the wind chill meant I was wearing all my usual, winter clothing. Including my old down jacket, long underwear, fleece jacket and trousers, two jumpers, polo neck and gloves!
Just a quick walk to the lanes. Today I was sweating in a T-shirt as I trimmed a boundary hedge to allow free access down the drive. The property next door seems not to attract willing martyrs to hedge trimming so I was forced to intervene.
Talking of martyrdom, We too suffered from the ridiculously wet winter. There being several hundred meters of rain collecting drive. All bunging the run-off down our own, final section. This was apt to play havoc with our attempt to stem the incoming tide with mere gravel. It all turned to muddy mush. With very poor adhesion and an ugly brown mess on the tyres and assorted boots. At times one half expected to see fish in the steady stream coming our way!
Just a quick walk to the lanes. Today I was sweating in a T-shirt as I trimmed a boundary hedge to allow free access down the drive. The property next door seems not to attract willing martyrs to hedge trimming so I was forced to intervene.
Talking of martyrdom, We too suffered from the ridiculously wet winter. There being several hundred meters of rain collecting drive. All bunging the run-off down our own, final section. This was apt to play havoc with our attempt to stem the incoming tide with mere gravel. It all turned to muddy mush. With very poor adhesion and an ugly brown mess on the tyres and assorted boots. At times one half expected to see fish in the steady stream coming our way!
The latest, Danish, government strategy is to slowly upon up society after the successful, pandemic lock down. The number of cases and deaths has so far remained low in Denmark. Though initially I felt they weren't doing enough. The same opinion I held for many other countries. With their leaders in public denial as cases mounted.
The problem is that modern society cannot exist under a permanent lock down. Somebody has to pay the bills and do all the work which a service oriented economic system requires. The so-called, herd immunity is a long way from reality. It all depends on the number of acceptable losses. The Danes have largely accepted self-isolation and limits on their movements. In exchange they have "enjoyed" much lower numbers of infected and a much lower death toll than counties making headlines elsewhwere.
Even this has its great dangers. With so [relatively] few cases in Denmark. The disease hasn't yet had a chance to thin out the most vulnerable. There are far too few infected survivors [so far] to have built up resistant antibodies in society as a whole. Even if that were possible without horrendous loss of life.
Opening up now could be catastrophic if it occurs too quickly. Not only through an explosion of new cases and inevitable losses. But by providing a myriad of infection routes to the most vulnerable.
By flattening the curve of the numbers of infected, the Danish health system could still cope. While it geared up to a unique and extremely dangerous situation laid on top of all their normal services. There were inevitable and tragic losses to medical staff though a lack of protective equipment for front line personnel.
By flattening the curve of the numbers of infected, the Danish health system could still cope. While it geared up to a unique and extremely dangerous situation laid on top of all their normal services. There were inevitable and tragic losses to medical staff though a lack of protective equipment for front line personnel.
This situation of vital equipment shortages continues. As big name companies try to milk public opinion for future sales strategies. By promising to make vital equipment available, from scratch, using their supposedly advanced design and alien manufacturing facilities. The latter usually occurs in factories abroad in today's remote slavery, technological society.
Spending billions on producing a family of stylistically perfect, rounded corners on a mobile phone casing, is arguably not a vital technological skill. Certainly not one which can be transferred directly to mass producing ventilators in a global crisis! I'm still waiting to hear how Chump wants to limit exporting vital ventilator technology to its global, economic competitors!
Meanwhile, Boris@uk is in hospital being poked and prodded, but said to be recovering.
Update: Boris has been moved to intensive care. Let us hope for the best.
Meanwhile I have a late entry to The Jinping Pandemic Darwin Awards: Waitrose supermarkets management. You know who you are. You know exactly what you are doing. Inhumane behaviour is inhumane however you try to whitewash over it. Modern slavery is alive and well in the high streets of Britain. It can be found at your local branch of Waitrose.
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