Feest Isolation Days –25 June
The hottest day of the year so far! It was a glorious day and we are promised lovely weather for a few more days. It does help. Sounds of children paddling in their pools in their back gardens has returned. Summer! Holidays will be mostly in the UK this year, staycations have become the new normal. Apparently, all Devon Air B and B’s are already booked! A combination of people hanging onto their bookings in hope, and speedy folks getting the first available dates as soon as the easing of lockdown was announced. Let’s just hope when the time comes, the weather is still with us.
We will not be heading out just yet. The plan is to wait and see what happens after the 4th of July when the big easing occurs. We hope it doesn’t make us uneasy!
The daily briefings have now stopped so we have to search a little bit more for the information that is coming out of Downing Street. Professor Chris Whitty has a twitter feed and he shares papers and other documents with his followers there. A man that can be trusted who will be followed!
This week is the fourth “anniversary” of the Brexit referendum. Britain has left the EU but there is still no answer to the question of will we have a hard Brexit or will there be a deal. The government has until the end of the year to finalise the plans with our former EU partners. Perhaps it is time to get a move on. While this household was firmly in the “remain in the EU” camp, now that we have left it would be good if the government organised a decent deal. We wait and see.
It’s a bit like waiting for the Coronavirus vaccine. The disease is still here, but when will the solution arrive? There does seem to be some good news from the UK on that front! Around the world, there are 120 different vaccine trials going on as I write. In Britain there are two groups already at Stage Two of clinical trials. The Oxford group has been working closely with Astra Zeneca and if their vaccine is successful, Alok Sharma the Business secretary said earlier this week that thirty million doses will be available for use in the UK by the end of September. Matt Hancock explained this earlier in the month and it seems that the plans for manufacture are still on track…if it works. The vaccine has a name… ZD1222 Vaccine. The Oxford team have said they will know in six weeks whether it will be effective.
The Imperial College vaccine is based on the genetic material of the disease itself. Clinical trials started on this today and if successful, the Imperial team will move to further trials by October.
All I want for Christmas this year is a Coronavirus Vaccine! Let’s hope the scientists who are working on this can act like Santa and deliver us all that much needed present by then! I have no idea how they do what they do but am SO glad they are doing it!
I don’t understand this one either…if you do please let me know!
With love,
Kathy x