Day Three Hundred and Thirty-nine

Feest Isolation Days –16 February 2021

We’re having a heat wave!  This week we are promised temperatures up into the low teens!  As it’s been minus degree weather on and off for a few weeks this is indeed welcome news!  A day, or even two, without rain would be good too!  We will get into the country for a walk before the mud arrives.

Next week we hear what the plans are for unlocking.  Reading the Sunday papers, it would seem that everyone is fed up. Journalists who write columns as opposed to news are all moaning and feeling the irritation of the pandemic.  They seem to have collectively stopped being positive and started whinging.  It doesn’t help though does it?  I suppose if I had kids to home school as well as a job to do in a dinky flat I might feel like moaning a bit more though.  Still it really doesn’t help!

Our friends in Auckland are in three days of lockdown while the government tracks the three cases of Covid they have discovered. Other friends in Melbourne and Western Australia are also now locked down for five days.  I feel very sorry for them all. We want you to be Covid free and get back to moving about with restrictions! Let’s hope it doesn’t last long and they can soon go back to normal.  It’s good to think of people in cafes and restaurants and museums and the rest without restrictions.  Enjoying the sun and their summer.  And we hope by our summer that we can begin to carefully do some of these things again.  There are those here in parliament who want all restrictions lifted by the first of May.  Fortunately, Boris and his team do seem to be listening to the scientists.  Let’s hope so.  Of course we all want life to return for everyone, but we don’t want to have to lockdown again.   This third time, hopefully, will be the last!  

A mathematical modeller has done some fascinating work on the amount of virus in circulation.  He did some quite sophisticated maths which is beyond me, but you can read all the numbers here.  

https://theconversation.com/all-the-coronavirus-in-the-world-could-fit-inside-a-coke-can-with-plenty-of-room-to-spare-154226

Suffice to say, that all of the virus in the entire world, the cause of all of the deaths and destruction could all fit into a coke can.  The author chose that because he thinks it’s the most vile drink in the world.  Certainly is one of the most vile viruses. That’s for sure!

But tiny tiny tiny.  

Some times good things do not come in small packages.  

With the UK the third most vaccinated country in the world behind Israel and the United Arab Emirates, let’s hope we can kick this can far down the road sooner rather than later.  Then we can get back to the other issues the world faces.  

Whew. It never ends.  See? Might as well enjoy yourself!   

Take care, stay safe and enjoy!

With love,

Kathy x