When we were trained about a pandemic we were told to expect a lockdown of six weeks. The reasoning behind this was not some magic length of time that would be needed to get rid of the problem, but more about the ability of people to live in quarantine. That would put it two weeks away on the 4th May. However, I get the impression that we may well have moved to eight weeks these days, suggesting people will be able to cope until 18th May.
I’m not so sure about the eight weeks. Today I could see from my window two groups of people that were getting together in multiple household groups. Only four weeks in and cracks are starting to appear. Similarly there are rumblings in the USA. European nations are coming out of lockdown (after about six weeks).
Quite sad that our society has such lack of control. Irrespective of the number of amazing examples, like the nurses and doctors, or like Captain Tom (currently over £25M – or 50p for every person in the UK), there are people at the other end of the spectrum who seem to live their life based on the “I want” principle.
So my suggestion is that you take the 5 pillars for ending lockdown with a pinch of salt – my suggestion is that you watch the transport graph in the daily briefings – how many people are moving around – because that will tell you when we have decided to stop being locked down.
Today I took time to put together two plastic bottle plant pots with different designs. I’ll see which works best. I have set up one with a tomato plant, and in the other I am going to try to grow an onion. It will be interesting seeing how they work. The advantages are that the environment inside the bottle is warmer and the moisture stays in the bottle, it needs a lot less watering. My guess is that it will also be a good way to grow things outside the main growing season.
I decided to cook a bread based pizza today – still cam’t go to bed – must remember to halve the amounts next tine I try one.