COVID one year on

A year ago I drove from Dover to north Wales for an audit.

Once there I did a tour round a Holy Well at, well, Holywell, took shots before going back to the hotel I had booked.

The next day, the 12th, the world went mad. And the Government, UK Government, gave up on surpressing the virus.

Literally gave up.

Like many people, I did not understand the implcations, but I was aware of how pandemics can move through the population, and depending on how serious they are, and how easily transmissable they are will determine how many people in the population will get infected,hospitalised and die.

Only by surpressing the visrus transpission with track, trace and isolation until a vaccine came available, will numbers in all 3 catagories be kept down. A country can seal their borders, much easier if the country is an isalnd. Matt Hancock once sais the reason NZ had been so successful in virus supression was that it was an island. Whereas the UK is, checks notes, also an island.

Sigh.

Schools have gone back this week, although not much news on how that is going in regard to testing, but all eyes will be on infection rates from the end of next week as transmissions will begin to show up.

The totally pointless "Nightingale Hospitals" have been closed for the second time, costing hundreds of millions, £500,000,000 in fact, and had a very minimal effect as they had no new staff or equipment. But then conservatives like spending money on stuff that gets headlines, if only for a day, no matter if it has no real effects.

So it goes, so it goes.

The Government has refused a FoI request to see who Dido Harding met in the course of her spending £22 billion pounds. The Prime MInister yesterday claimed transparancy was important. A surprise to find that the FoI request was refused on cost grounds, costing more than £600 to comply. Remember she has the green light to spend £15 billion more this year, making thirty seven billion, enough for eight new aircraft carriers, but with no scrutiny or oversight.

Latest news is the Government is trying to force through a 300 page bill partly to surpress protest on noise grounds, least there be any actual opposition to Johnson's imperial rule.

It will hardly be reported on before it becomes law.