11 December - Lockdown sceptics
We learned today that Bexley is a little over the 200 Covid cases (positive
tests) per 100,000 of population marker or as I prefer to say two in a thousand.
That sounds much less scary doesnְ’t it?
I still only know of one person who has gone down with Covid symptoms since last
April and he is a man I met just once three years ago in far flung Wiltshire.
His wife and two daughters remained healthy. I know I don’t meet many people in
lockdown times but my score of one case known to me seems to be on the high side of normal
among friends and family.
The testing procedure is widely reported to be massively inaccurate and on radio
news this afternoon I heard that a double test regime conducted by Cambridge University in
conjunction with a pharmaceutical company led to the conclusion that tests on
students were 100% false positives; and Boris Johnson is busy wrecking the
country based on such dodgy figures.
Yesterday I found myself in a coffee shop, the first such visit this year.
Actually one visit per year might be an above average score for me, I tend to
regard drinking coffee away from home as an expensive bad habit. I wore a mask at the
counter but had to lower it when the lady the other side of a Perspex screen
couldn’t make out what I was saying.
I sat on a stool by a high bench style table looking out on the interesting
scene below (report later probably) and struck up a conversation with two fellow
drinkers. We weren’t squashed close but there would not have been room to get
two more people into the spaces between us. I am probably going to die, one came from Northampton
which has been suffering worse than Bexley has.
If I don’t die the hospitality industry will. Statistically pubs and restaurants
have not given a deadly dose of Covid19 to anyone; hospitals have killed
thousands due to inadequate infection control.
Yesterday an 83 year old friend had his Pfizer injection at Princess Royal
University Hospital in Lock’s Bottom. He was still alive when I phoned earlier this evening.