(Ask yer Grandparents about that hilarious play on words, if you didn’t get it)
Original Post: 16/4/2020
One Matt Hancock? There’s only one Matt Hancock. Government ministers on radio or TV apart from the Daily Service? There’s only one. Matt Hancock.
Well he’s taking a battering is our Minister for Health. Few weeks back, he said we were testing 12,500 people a day, we weren’t (it was 8,000). Then it was everyone has ample PPE (protective equipment). Nowhere near it. Then there’s the daily garbage verbosely avoided at the update things. Turns out we’re NOW very upset about the fact that there’s lots and lots of older people dying in Care Homes (but not included in the figures), and hardly any have been tested, so they die, i.e. don’t go into hospitals, don’t use the ventilators, hospital beds etc, so it’s hardly surprising that we have “plenty of capacity in the hospitals”.
Care Home staff haven’t got the equipment to protect themselves, so, like the Nurses, Doctors, Bus Drivers and all front line staff who ARE dying through lack of equipment, maybe bunches of these will die too. But AT LEAST, they’re getting given lapel badges saying CARE.
Unlike the Far East, and several European countries, thought are turning to the difficult decision to slowly end the Lockdown. Tricky as deaths are still so high in Europe, and the UK hasn’t seen the peak yet, it’s really going to be an incredibly dreadful call, if people get it wrong. In the UK, of course, we’re miles away from Hancock’s 100,000 test per day by the end of April (we’re doing about 13,000 ish). There’s no antibody tests yet (the Far East ones haven’t improved in effectivenessity, the Americans announced yesterday that General Motors has successfully come up with one, and they will start rolling these out, which has spurred the President on to start considering “Getting the US Back To Work”)….
Other UK Government ministers spew out almost identical rhetoric daily “We fully intend” “Every effort is being made” “We have to thank”…
Oh, and the PM went into Intensive Care, then was released, but it was touch and go.
This is a bugger of a Virus. The research scientists are daily arguing about whether there will be proper immunity to a vaccine, whenever it arrives, and the journalists are only asking one question this week…when are we out of lockdown here?
The charming story of a WW1 & 2 Veteran Captain Thomas Moore walking up and down his garden with Zimmer Frame to raise money for the NHS (£13 million at the mo!) has least “gripped the nation”. Well, the TV News channels have something different to film.
Still, locked away, I made my first ever Banana Loaf, and very good it still is….