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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

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