I didn't see my daughter and grandchildren for four months earlier on in the year, but now I can look after them if my daughter has extra shifts and make the occasional social visit.
I'm sorry to hear you can't see yours, but this won't last forever.
Our own Boris dithered about herd immunity versus lockdown for long enough that covid became out of of control.
It was only a couple of weeks delay as I understand it, but were suffering the consequences of that with nearly 75,000 dead.
We're back to nearly 1,000 dying every day as we were during the first peak in April; about 1 in every 26 people have had a confirmed infection (not including those who self-isolated with symptoms without being tested, or those who were asymptomatic); we have this new variant spreading like wildfire; and most of the UK is back on Tier 4 restrictions (stay at home).
The whole of Wales is on Tier 4.
I also read somewhere that the new variant may have originated in the US, although it was the UK that called it.
Our protocols regarding contact/quarantine and restrictions are ever changing, complicated, seemingly illogical and chaotic. It seems like our government just dabs the brakes in a bid to keep our National Health Service at breaking point, rather than exceeding it. It surely takes advantage of the dedication and tenacity of our healthcare workers.
If it's true that Trump's intent was herd immunity through infection rather than incompetent handling, it begs questions of our government's strategy.
I believe the recommended distance to take a mouse after you've caught it in a humane trap is a mile.
I used to live near a river and get all sorts of creatures in my garage. I had to postpone a clear out one spring/summer so as not to disturb a dormouse. I thought it might nesting in a mattress I'd put in there in late winter.
I wasn't too happy abut having to keep the mattress for over a year, but frequent appearances from a protected species more than compensated for that.
When I eventually thought it was okay to move the mattress, there were no signs of a nest in it. In fact there were no signs of a nest anywhere in my garage. I kept dried dog food out there in a closed container, but maybe there were crumbs on the floor I couldn't see, or fully sweep up.
Chasing your guest into a chest of draws and then shoving the said piece of furniture out of the front door is taking social distancing a little too seriously, if you don't mind me saying.
Not testing for covid and then destroying potentially infected samples?
You are certain potentially infected samples are tested for covid, then secretly and illegally transported for storage, DNA profiling and data collection?
That doesn't strike you as being just a little far fetched?
Because taking samples for covid testing which incidentally contain our DNA and then destroying the samples, is not the same as collecting our DNA.
Both are nice natured dogs who require little exercise and take up little space. Even Greyhounds run round like eejits for half an hour twice a day then curl up like a turd in the softest, warmest place they can find for the remaining 23 hours. The only way their size is an issue is if they're reluctant t move from the middle of your bed.
I have a thing about Lurchers myself.
Lurchers came about when Henry VIII designated the New Forest (Hampshire, England) his private hunting ground. Poachers started crossing their hounds with fluffier dogs like Collies to disguise their distinctive shape. That way they would be less obviously poaching than they would with a traditional Sight Hound.
I should warn you that they are incorrigible thieves. Generally, they don't damage your property, but it might be three days before they tell you where they've kept your mobile phone, or wallet safe for you.
I remember him excited and agitated at having contact with someone behind the in curtain in the 70's.
I remember being sworn to infantile secrecy, as his contact risked his life simply to communicate with the outside world. I know my dad felt the honour of being trusted with such a communication and understood the significance of the rebellion: it was about the right to exist, to be present in the consciousness of another human being.
If aliens landed, my dad would be beeping Morse Code and waving semaphore like a good'un.
At the beginning there was one outrageous prediction that 60,000 people could die in the UK before it was all over.
At the time of the worst case scenario prediction, I worked out that in the US, the per capita equivalent would be 200,000.
We're at 66,00+, you're at 300,00+.
It is rife here. Three of my grandchildren are in quarantine due to outbreaks in their schools. Only the 2 year old can go out, although none of them are showing symptoms thankfully. In the beginning, it was thought children were more, or less immune.
I hope to visit and see all four of them one day next week to give them their Christmas gifts. I might have to leave the gifts by the front door and have a shouted conversation through a first floor window if any of them show signs of infection.
It might be my only opportunity too see them for at least a month. I'm going to miss my granddaughter's 10th birthday (my eldest grandchild, my first born) because we will be back on lockdown at 6pm n the 28th December.
We will likely have all been infected long before we get the opportunity to have a vaccine.
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