Omicron: yep, a new variant, and so we’re back to square one. It originated in South Africa, one of the least vaccinated countries, and is an inevitable consequence of that. We keep blethering on about how great our vacination programme… Read more11th December 2021

What to say? The govt shows no sign of improving its approach. Every week over 1000 people are dying, including on average three children. If we don’t even look after the children, what sort of society have we become? Outside… Read more23rd November 2021

Where to start? Its been a while. Since i last posted in July, things have continued to get more and more ridiculous. Precautions have been thrown to the wind, most people are taking little or none, and as a consequence… Read more21s October 2021

I don’t know where to start. Despite the rapid rise in daily new cases, from 2000 a month ago to 28,000 today, the govt is determined to scrap all safety measures in less than two weeks. No masks, no social… Read more6th July 2021

Its been a while since i wrote in this blog! What has happened? Between March and the end of May, cases continued to fall. Things looked fairly good in fact, with daily cases falling to around 1500, and deaths to… Read more14th June

Since i last posted, we have turned a corner. Cases and deaths have been falling, and vaccinations have been rolling out rapidly. The priority groups were indeed ‘hit’ by mid Feb, and now they’re into groups 5 and 6. I… Read more2nd March 2021

1800 deaths today, and 38000 new cases. It does seem that lockdown3 is having an impact on cases, but deaths, well they just keep on rising. The shading below shows the approximate timings of the three lockdowns that have so… Read more20th January 2021

The UK’s covid situation gets worse and worse. Today there were 1564 deaths from covid. Since Christmas there have now been 15,000, nearly 20% of all deaths since last January. Thats in just 20 days. Its possible that new cases… Read more13th Jan 2021

What an extraordinary week this has been. On Wednesday the 6th, supporters of losing presidential candidate Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, in an attempt to prevent his rival Joe Biden being confirmed as the winner of the election. The… Read more11th January 2021

Well, things keep getting “better”. Since Christmas we’ve had more cases, and more deaths, than at any time in the whole Pandemic. And govt strategy continues to be rudderless, reactive and clueless. Till literally Sunday, the govt was insisting schools… Read more5th Jan 2021