Well to my amazement it’s Monday. The days are lost on me at the moment – as they are to many. Pottering around Boots I was informed they were closing early as “its a bank holiday”. Double take! Shock! Do they still exist? It had occurred to me as Boxing Day was a Saturday but still… that reasoning seems like a distant dream now…
The rain was dreary and heavy – even noisy hailstones out of nowhere. The few shops open had 50% off plastered everywhere. They had built it but still the people did not come. The streets were empty. Dreariness ruled. Boots told me yesterday was a big day… Hmmm – define “big” I thought, sadly.
In a supermarket food was being rapidly marked down. No big queues to snap it up. Working from home destroys so much, including spontaneity. I bought a few things – why not? Who knows when this drudge will end. I guess it’s ok for those living in luxury, ordering online and attending private parties. The rest of us just drag ourselves through it. Winter does indeed change the experience of lockdown – aka tier 4.
As I walked round the shopping centre a voice over told me to wear a mask, keep to the left, social distance – but from who? The nearest person was like a dot halfway across the centre. Post Christmas sales on a bank holiday used to be fun…
Once outside it was worse – zombies seemed to loom in the distance. The town was empty. Shops shut – old, out of date adverts on the windows. Rain dripping down. Christmas trees and decorations with no admirers. Post Christmas can be dire but this was hopeless.
As I passed McDonald’s I saw movement. A couple of people tapping on screens to order. A masked security guard making sure they stayed in line. A bell rang – a lone man had ventured into Costa to order a takeaway coffee – the bright lights inside offering a deceptive view of a welcome that did not exist. Once you have your drink you must leave immediately!
I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t want people to die unnecessarily. I don’t want hospitals overloaded. But the virus has been here for 15 months. No death seems important unless it’s “with” Covid. People used to die of other things long before we heard of Covid. As far as I know they still do…
Have we gone completely insane? After all our country has achieved do we have a government paralysed with fear? We lock our nation down but don’t shut our borders. We shut our pubs with no proof of infection. People who make (up) the rules break them. The pub where Nicola Sturgeon broke her own rules is now being bullied and trolled.
I put up my umbrella and start the walk home. On the way I spot some Ivy that might go with my vase of holly – maybe tomorrow. The full(ish) moon makes the road look sleepy hollow like.
On reaching home I scroll the internet for news – Tier 5 looming… great!
Nothing ‘will end’…..IT is evolving changing…….it was inevitable that if we ‘got a deal’ we would have to give up something.
And we have. Some will gain, some will suffer……that is the way of the world.
This must be viewed as a golden opportunity to reduce our dependence on imports…..this is vital. To build with enthusiasm our own power sources – to depend too much on Europe will be a major error………because Europe itself is tied to…….Russia, and they too can be held to ransnom…just as China can, and may well, hold America, and the world, to ransom once it achieves its aim of being the foremost power in the world…both industrially an militarily…….more especially with those strategically important Rare Earth Metals, which are an essential to industry and the military.
America is, aided and abetted by its militant immigrant population, due for a massive devaluation in all of its lifestyle, because it is now a massively split nation…………
None of this has happened by accident……it is part of the Xi Jinping’s FIFTY YEAR PLAN.
America, nor any other country in the world has such a plan……..nothing comes near to that plan.
It would take, if Trump were at the helm, around fifteen years for America to catch up……..but I’m afraid without him…….?
they will NEVER recover their position in the world……too much has been ‘stolen’ from them. The weaknesses in the Governments of the past thirty or so years has handed to China a massive lead……and this will not be recovered by any Democratic led USA.
And what America does today…..the U.K. does tomorrow…..we are inextricably tied (even more so now we have left the EU) to America, more than any country in the world.
I say again…if we are to change for the better?
gird your loins,
Stiffen the sinews,
Cry, God for England and Farage!
Thanks everyone. I have no idea what to believe any more. I’m just sick of it.,
Our local town (Ledbury) in contrast was bustling on Tues (29th), Hard to find a place to park. Many shops however still closed.
Lots of clubs and associations also closed for many months now.
Oh yeah its Harryagain. I am scratching my head, the point is………….
Janice, you said that the virus has been here for fifteen months. I don’t mean to upset you, but it was found in wastewater at sewage works in Spain in March 2019. So it’s been around for twenty two months now.
The average age of people who die from Covid-19 is over eighty years old, so it’s easy to guess who needs sheltering from the virus. Apart from the aged, it kills those with dangerous medical conditions. Very rarely does it kill healthy people under eighty, about four hundred in the UK so far.
You can listen to the news on the radio and you never hear that the pre-Covid death rate in the UK was about six hundred thousand a year. For some reason the ONS only gives monthly totals when I have a look, not the total of UK deaths so far in 2020. It will be revealing if the total of UK deaths this year is less than seventy thousand above six hundred thousand, when seventy thousand are supposed to have died from Covid-19.
And the pharmaceutical companies, salivating over the profits they will make from compulsory vaccination, have been granted legal immunity from prosecution if their vaccines harm people. Let’s hope their vaccines kill less people than Covid-19. One thing is certain, it will be hushed up if they do.
(I meant “it will be hushed up if they don’t” )
Someone tell Colin , I wish I was half way up my Ben Cruachan, by Crianlarich. And a cousin in Berneray, with 50 on a small island is probably a hotbed of mask denial and congregregation., it seems probbly more cheerful.
TG Spokes……….you can say what you like now and repeat it everyday if you wish. I’ve done with it now and also probably done it to death, to the point whereby Lisa told me off for being ever so tiresome……….
Well Janice, you have probably described most town centres around the country, mine included. When and where is it all going to end?
i really do feel sorry for Janice and Lisa, here in the countryside we are used to our own company so do not notice the imprisonment that a lot of the population have endured.
Now we are preparing for the busy and long nights of lambing where all the family have to muck in, eating and sleeping is dictated by nature. But watching the mothers and lambs sometimes start me thinking of how a lot of life has changed for the worse and occasionally for the better. We must not accept every thing but be very selective. I do like mobile phones, they have an on and off switch, but I do not like msm as they try to force the agenda , switch your tv OFF and start reading again. Much better then?
More importantly Lisa how is it intended to end? (or not)