Feest Isolation Days –18 December
What’s our Tier? The government met and decided and Bristol is now moving down to Tier Two! The number of cases in Bristol has gone from 432 per 100,000 to 121 and case numbers are still falling. This means that restaurants will be able to open if they serve main meals. Pubs can open if a meal is eaten but must close at 22:00.
Seems to me that the NHS and Scientists have a different view than the boys in the government..and they are mostly boys. We will see what difference this makes to the rate of infection, but for us, not much changes. We won’t be taking advantage of the restaurant openings, we still can’t have people in the house, but at least the garden is no longer off limits. IF the weather holds we might have a drink in the garden over the Holiday with our “bubble” friends! In fact, we will most likely have bubbles with our bubbles!
In Paris, the city government has been fined for having too many women in senior positions. This breaks the gender equality rules from 2019 which require 40% of new posts in government be allocated to each gender. However, when Mayor Anne Hidalgo became the mayor for the second term, 69% of the team she appointed were women. Anne told a meeting of the city council this week that the appointments helped give women a louder voice in government in France. She said she was delighted to pay the 90,000 Euro fine. “In Paris, we are doing everything to make it (equality) a success, and I am very proud of a large team of women and men who together carry this fight for equality.”
Economists at Reading University and the University of Liverpool surveyed 194 countries and discovered that by mid-May, those countries with women leaders locked down sooner and their residents only had half the number of deaths by those countries led by women. Take note gentlemen of the world. And listen up.
In America, Trump told his advisors he didn’t plan to leave the White House on the 20th of January, the day of the inauguration. He still doesn’t believe he lost. Poor baby. Despite losing all the law suits, he’s hanging on. And pardoning everyone who could hurt him in the future. Can he pardon himself for crimes we don’t yet know about? That remains to be seen.
Have a look at his possible last day in office….
Enjoy!
With love,
Kathy x