I’ve no idea what I will be doing over Christmas. But whatever I do, I will not be self isolating afterwards.
Anyone spending time with family members from outside their own household at Christmas may be required to self-isolate for two weeks afterwards, newly released official documents suggest.
The advice to ‘self-quarantine’ could be issued if festive gatherings of the wider family are allowed, a paper from the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) warns.
The experts advising the Government caution that contact with multiple people raises the risk of getting and spreading Covid for up to a fortnight.
I think it’s fair to say that I’ve been unimpressed by this whole fiasco from the outset. However as the authoritarian diktat becomes ever more deranged, my patience (what there was of it) has evaporated entirely.
So, if I see someone outside of my household, when I return, I will carry on as normal. I will not be wearing a mask and I will not go out of my way to socially distance (although, I’m not someone who gets over close anyway).
I’ve more than had enough of this scientifically illiterate bullshit and will make no effort to enable it.
There is a book called ‘Scared to Death’ which documents lots of health scares that have happened over the years. In every case the incompetent government reaction causes far more harm than the original problem. I suppose that it would be a surprise if this one was any different.
Just returned from a lovely three-hour walk around Islington, including 45 minutes or so sitting on a park bench in Highbury Fields. I can report that it looked absolutely no different from any other recent Saturday: lots of people about, walking dogs, playing football, picnicking and generally enjoying a delightful autumn afternoon in the sunshine. Lockdown 2.0 and Project Fear seemed a long way away, and for that I was very grateful. Whatever some people may be telling the pollsters, others are clearly trying to live their lives as normally as they can.
https://youtu.be/IX6p-dGcRdc This is good
Or this one.
https://youtu.be/2b0OFdW9Sds
Good to read that old Scottish retort:-
Awa an’ bile yer heid..
If you want to be bit more diplomatic:-
Aye, right.
Reference video posted by Scarface. I find it disturbing that party leaders are asking MPs to vote on something while deliberately withholding information that is pertinent to the matter in hand. This being information that might result in them voting the wrong way. Not only this, we have an MP who is seemingly ok with this and is also willing to vote based on data that she fully understands to be out of date and erroneous. Is it any wonder that we are in a mess.
The second video gives a glimmer of hope.
And she came within spitting distance of the leadership of the party.
On the subject of saving the NHS, according to the CEO, the biggest threat to the health of the public is not a virus but climate change.
“The NHS has today adopted a multiyear plan to become the world’s first carbon net zero national health system.”
A much more important priority than making sick people better, I’m sure we can all agree.
What on earth does “carbon net zero” even mean?
It is a bit like honest politicians. Its a pipe dream.
It basically means that whatever your carbon creation you also create negative carbon of the same amount, like plant a tree or something. Sounds good in theory but won’t ever work, just like honest politicians.