Category Archives: COVID

A lot of people have been calling for more regulations. Maybe even a curfew. Let me think – why would it stop virus spread if we stopped people going outside when hardly anybody is outside? Hmm. But I understand. There … Continue reading →

Watching a game show today the question was “What will you buy if you win?” In all my time I have never heard a response “I’ll be putting it in to my saving account”. Okay, that isn’t likely to be … Continue reading →

I’ve been watching the news recently. As the virus gets bad we seem to have been looking inward more and more. How many articles have there been about £5.20 worth of groceries (most of which were wrong BTW). How many … Continue reading →

A lot of people have been coming up with wonderful options for reducing virus transmission. So I crunched some numbers. According to the briefing today there are around 1 in 150 people asymptomatic. What does that mean for us – … Continue reading →

People use Facebook as a social media site – but it isn’t the only one. So Trump has been banned – people can discuss whether it is a good idea. There are questions about section 230. In short, social media … Continue reading →

I watched Auf Wiedersehen Pet as I worked this afternoon. There were several scenes shot in hotels. I suddenly thought “I remember hotels like that”. When did cheap common hotels become as good as they are? I can remember one … Continue reading →

or – Greenland calling. I went out for my post midnight walk tonight. The roads were quiet – there was nobody else out. Some places had a light frost – all I could hear was a light crunch as I … Continue reading →

So the woman that suggested clap for heroes has had to withdraw because of threats. Let that sink in. She wasn’t telling people not to do other things, she wasn’t telling people to vote for Arthur (or whoever). She wanted … Continue reading →

We are all hoping the vaccination will end this. But vaccination is only one way people are immunised – the other way is to get infected. Today we are looking at 60,000 people being infected a day (about 400,000 a … Continue reading →

I caught a part of an animation over Christmas. In it there were two animated animals getting married. It started my weird thinking about the way we give animals human characteristics in cartoons, or even in real life. Of course … Continue reading →