A funny week

It’s been a funny week; not funny ha-ha, funny peculiar… including a trip to a National Trust place for a socially distanced walk (sterile and a bit surreal), a Grandson back at school (he’s very happy), a trip to the dentist for some emergency antibiotics (ouch!) and some very bad news about a relative’s health (sigh).

None of these things are remotely connected, but they do have one thing in common… they’ve all been made much more complicated than necessary by the Covid19 situation or, more correctly, by the Govt’s shambolic handling of it. I wonder where or when all this crap will end. How much more can we take?

The final straw (until the next ‘final’ straw… there’s a never-ending stream of them!) was hearing today that people will be required to wear facemasks on public transport. The BMA, however, wants masks to be mandatory in all public places. Jesus bloody Christ! 

It makes no sense – if masks weren't necessary at the beginning when cases and deaths were much higher... why are they necessary now when trends for both are heading steadily downwards? Answers on a postcard to the House of Commons please, because no-one in Govt has a bloody clue.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… there is no way on this earth that I will be seen in public looking like a bank robber in a mask. 

It’s all beginning to sound very Monty Pythonesque…. “And on tonight’s show we have Fish Slapping, the Ministry of Silly Walks and… Let’s all Wear Ridiculous Masks!!” (cue raucous laughter). Eric Idle and Michael Palin would have made a great job of it.

I can’t wait to see what next week will bring forth. One thing’s for sure – there won’t be anything sensible coming from the people who are allegedly in charge.

In charge... now, that is funny! Who are they kidding?