The Covid snake now stretches for 160 of my steps. It’s reached the Bermuda Triangle (read the entry for day 100 if you’re puzzled by that reference!). And I imagine they’re now going to curl it backwards because they can’t let it cross over a much used pathway.
In other walking news I had another conversation today. The lady who I was concerned maybe had been ill or had an immune condition because she always wore a hat and always wears dark glasses no matter what the weather has not been in evidence for the past few days. Another person I was concerned about. I saw her today. So I stopped and said I was glad to see her because I’ve been worried. And she said it was very sweet of me, like the other lady said. (Maybe I am sweet?!?) But we had quite a good conversation. Her name is Sue. She lives alone and like me is managing to fill her time more than adequately. She thinks there are a lot of positives that have come from lockdown including meeting up with people in the way we’ve just met up. She said she’s found lockdown very restful. She’s not missed her car at all. In fact it broke down at the beginning of lockdown and she hasn’t had it mended and doesn’t miss it. Maybe a whole new social circle will be developed and perhaps we can meet up for coffee on the cliffs in the future! The lockdown girls!
But another curious situation has arisen. I’ve seen this guy walking his dog sporadically throughout the whole of lockdown. And I noticed that he often carries a supermarket carrier bag. Usually Sainsbury’s. Easily identifiable because of the orange. But a few times I’ve noticed that he walks along with the dog, with the bag. He goes down the road to the station then he emerges later without the carrier bag. This has happened more than once. I saw him yesterday, this time with a co-op bag, easily identifiable by the blue bag and white lettering. Again he emerged later without the carrier bag. So what does he have in the back that he can’t dispose of at home? And where does he dispose of it when he passes several litter bins on the way? Of course my crime reading habits have prompted me to consider that it might be some of drugs drop off. I'm going to try and follow him next time, discreetly of course, I’m not gonna put myself in danger in anyway but I wanna see what he does with that bag. It can't be dog poo unless his dog has some kind of bowel condition. I've seen him come from the street onto the cliff path's so he's come from a residence. He hasn't stopped to let the dog poo. And besides there are plenty of poo bins along the way.
This today from The Guardian -
'Parts of Kent, London, north Wales and Scotland are still battling significant Covid-19 outbreaks, sparking fears from scientists and public health directors that Leicester’s return to lockdown is set to be repeated.
Bars and restaurants are preparing to reopen on Saturday in what the prime minister, Boris Johnson, has dubbed “Independence Day”.
But infections have risen in the Medway, the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing in London and Lanarkshire and Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, according to publicly available figures relating to tests by NHS and Public Health England laboratories. All areas have seen increases of 10 or more weekly infections between 18 and 25 June.
“I am expecting there to be a number of Leicesters,” said Prof Deenan Pillay, a virologist at UCL and member of Independent Sage, the shadow government scientific advisory group. “The base level of infections going on in the UK is still much higher than it was in other countries in Europe when they started to release their lockdowns.”
“We need to be cautious on easing lockdown because we are not out of the woods yet,” said Jeanelle de Gruchy, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health. “Leicester is a sobering example of that. It should make us cautious about being too gung-ho in easing different measures.”'
I rest my case.
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