Six months on

Six months ago today I went to the dentist and we popped into Sainsbury's on the way back... it was like a war zone! There'd been plenty of reports in the news about the looming Covid situation and, clearly, people had a pretty good idea of what was about to happen next. That evening Boris was on TV telling everybody over 70 not to go out and avoid all social contact because of Covid. A week later he imposed lockdown for everyone.

Since that day, March 16th, the one and only shop I've been into (once a week) is an M&S Food store. That's how it'll be for the foreseeable for me, unless the requirement for masks is removed.

I had no idea then that we'd still be enduring this nonsense now, nor that I'd still be sitting here talking/typing to myself like a bloody idiot. Probably just as well I can''t see into the future.

Life is still far from normal, nor will it be if Boris has his way.

Working from home, GP telephone appts and ordering almost everything online have all been fast-forwarded by Covid. Thank god for delivery drivers! Of course those things would have happened anyway eventually, day-to-day life obviously evolves and changes, but it would have been spread over a much longer period. There's no going back now, these things have changed forever. 

I talked about the Rule of Six, well apparently you can't even 'mingle' in groups of more than six now according to our deranged Home Secretary. Go outside and give your head a wobble, luv - you're clearly not yourself. I think there must be something in the water at the House of Commons, it's doing them no good.

One day this will all be history - how will it be recorded? I think it'll be spoken about as "The year Govt lost its mind". God knows, I don't expect much sense to come out of Westminster, but what we've seen over the last six months is insane. The size of the national debt is enough to make your eyes water; the cost to individuals, in terms of job losses, personal debt, health, stress and anxiety is incalculable. Don't even get me started on what all this has done to people's mental health. 

So much has been cast aside by Govt in its stated aim to "Protect the NHS". This was never about the threat of Covid, it was a cover up for the state of "our wonderful Health Service" and all the "heroes" who work there. Boris has dug himself into a very deep hole and he has no idea how to get out.

Plenty of good people work for the NHS but the organisation itself is a disgrace... an overblown monolith, full of its own importance and stuffed with managers who aren't fit to run a whelk stall. It's the new religion... saying anything critical about our sainted NHS is akin to blasphemy.

Now we've all saved the NHS, maybe they could get back to work and start actually seeing patients... well, those who haven't already died through lack of medical care! GPs and many consultants are still hiding behind locked doors and people are still falling ill, they're just not getting any proper care. All hail our wonderful NHS....!!!

I wonder if I'll still be sitting here in another six months wittering to myself? I wouldn't bet against it...