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
So, as expected, from 26th Dec we go into Tier 4. Sheesh. Two reasons apparently, one is the new strain thats been spreading through the South East, the other is a second new strain, previously seen in South Africa. Its… Read more23rd December
I had hoped by December we’d be getting through this. Far from it. As I write, the UK is cut off from the rest of the world, because a new strain of covid-19 is on the loose. Rates in southern… Read more22nd December
So I’m on the mend. I was quite ill for a week or so, not bad enough to go to hospital thank goodness but still very rough. I started to feel better around the 1st of Dec and am slowly… Read more10th Dec 2020
Last weekend i felt rubbish which is why I booked a test. During the week I felt ok though so i assumed it’d be negative. The positive result was a surprise. Mary is upset, she feels sure she must have… Read more22nd November
So today i tested positive for Covid19. I was feeling dodgy at the weekend, and reported my symptoms as normal through the ZOE app. On monday i got asked to get a test, which arrived on Tuesday and was sent… Read more19th November