Whilst my walking has not returned to its former glory, I am at least managing to get out most days if the weather doesn’t defeat me. This morning I witnessed the most glorious sunrise. From the merest horizontal light on the horizon I watched as the sun rose from behind the clouds lighting up the shoreline as if it was a diamond necklace. It seem to rise quite quickly and then it seems like the whole world was flooded with sunlight. I took a photograph. But it really doesn’t do it justice.
But it really was most uplifting. I returned home feeling a sense of purpose. Sadly that didn’t last as long into the day as I might have hoped. But it did at least permit me to sort the laundry fairly efficiently!
The news is full of this vaccine and that vaccine. It’s filling people with such hope and such optimism. But it’s scaring me. When vaccines take between 5 and 10 years to get right how can they be rolling these out so quickly? I remain sceptical about being injected with the genetic code of a virus. There is no way that the long-term effects of this have been properly studied. Could we be headed for another thalidomide type crisis? Out of the frying pan into the fire? And what if it renders are immune system capable only of recognising and dealing with coronavirus? What if it reprograms our genetics? Maybe I read way too many conspiracy and thriller books. But let’s not forget the pharmaceutical companies stand to make an absolute fortune out of this. And I don’t know how moral they might be. We live in a world where it’s profits before people.
According to the BBC News infection rates are still rising. This lockdown is due to end in a couple of weeks. I don’t see how it’s had any effect whatsoever. That seems to be because people really don’t seem to have paid it much heed.Obviously they’ve not been able to go into pubs and bars and restaurants and gyms.but it doesn’t seem to stop them doing anything else. I’ve noticed little difference just looking at the world around me.
Boris Johnson is self isolating because he was pinged by track and trace as he’d been in contact with an MP who has subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. Of course he had the virus some months ago so he reckons he’s full of antibodies and feels fine. But as he says “rules are rules“. There is a nasty suspicious mean-spirited side of me that thinks he’s doing it to try and promote the whole self-isolation thing which again people aren’t following. Or rather I don’t think they fully understand what it means. It’s like social distancing. People just don’t seem to understand what they’re supposed to do.
It’s my friends birthday tomorrow. I won’t be able to actually spend any time with her. But I am going to take some gifts down, just knock on the door and leave them there. It’s tinged with sadness because the funeral of her niece is on Thursday.
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