Riding the second wave

Yesterday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that for the preriod from 4th to 11th September, the number of recorded infections in the UK was at least 6,000 for ech of those seven days, and not between 2 to 3 thousand as per the official figures.

Dido Harding stated in a select committee, after she had been found, that no one could have foreseen a second wave of infections after schools repopened, the return to work and month of encouraging people to eat out in crowded restaurants.

I mean, who could have forecasted that?

Oh yes, just about everybody, and the hostorical record of the Spanish Flu of 1918.

So, as infections surge, nine football games are to have some fans today, while the Prime Minister warned of a national lockdown of at least two weeks is inevitable.

Lockdowns are a crude tool, usually something to use while you set up testing and track and trace. So the return to a national lockdown will be a signal that the five months since the end of May have been wasted, and hundreds of millions of pounds of quick fixes or the worl leading kind, which saw Dom's mates given wads of cash to produce apps that failed to work.

We will reap a very bitter harvest in the coming months.

Matt Hancock announced that there will be a movement of at risk people from hospitals to care homes, including those with COVID, but don't worry he will deploy his "protective ring" once again, a ring that allowed 20,000 people to die before their time last spring.

But not to worry, bold announcements trump atual plans and actions every time with this bunch of clowns.

Thing is, I don't think they really care. The trevalis of ordinary working people doesn't register on their radars. JRM's nanny, who has looked after him since birth is still employed to tend his needs. JRM is 51 years old. He knows all about the worries and fears of ordinary working people.

The Chancellor is not going to renew the furlough scheme, with at least two weeks of lockdown coming, people will run out of money and food.

But don't worry, they understand.