Well, it looks as if Spain (see below) and Italy have pretty much fallen to coronavirus, and since we are likely to be in much the same position, my siblings must be peeing their pants! Far be it from me to remind them of their behaviour when it was their parents in the same position.

Saying that people over 60 will not be intubated means they will not get access to a ventilator, since you will inevitably need this explained to you.

Iain Duncan Smith falls into this category, so I propose that he goes first with a demonstration of leadership in our Logan’s Run future.  We can all decide whether we want to do it based upon his results. Until that time, we look forward to his demonstration of living on 94 quid a week, but only after 5 weeks of living on nothing at all.

Likewise, I imagine all conservative voters might also want to demonstrate to us how mild their symptoms are by turning down any potential treatment in order to establish their belief in survival of the fittest and herd immunity. Wouldn’t want the country to waste any money.

I imagine workers in the NHS, so keen to follow orders and finish off people’s relatives as they are in my experience, must be quite shocked to discover that they are not automatically immune from decisions from the top, further that scientific advice is not always pleasant or correct.

I may return to work this week, as I have a lot more freedom if I do, but I will see how I feel.  I am lucky to have many options in our changing landscape.

Expect an increase in recruitment for replacement police and NHS very shortly, and those of you who are out of work need not worry, as the crops will need to be tended to come the spring.

Again, please review the figures for Japan and South Korea for the error which has still not been dealt with to resolve this as quickly as possible.

TELL THE BUSINESSES TO PROTECT THEIR STAFF BORIS. MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT THEY ARE ALL FUCKING STUPID.

as predicted – Spain

https://youtu.be/aJM-TD4SaBc

Give up meat, wheat, cheese, potatoes, milk products and sugar. If you must have them at all, make it every second day and focus on maximum bang for the buck.  Black pudding is good, supermarket chicken is not.  You get the idea.  Fish is also fine.

Replace anything you have given up with fruit and vegetables.  A whole pineapple is not difficult if you put it in a smoothie or dream up whatever suits you as ways of consuming it.  Coconut cream you may have, cream or milk you may not.

If you want to invest in some amla, raw chocolate and blueberries, do that, they are also good.

No coffee but white tea is fine.  You want as much fibre and antioxidants as you can get.

Get a chewable vitamin c, and if you are able to, chew at least one every three hours.  You will go through a lot.

Make some friars balsam, if you cannot find it, with storax and benzoin.  Put it in a pan and use it as an expectorant.  You want to get the temperature in your nose and throat up a few degrees, so take your time and use a towel over your head.

Sleep a lot.  And now some more. Eat something of the above when you wake up as your lymphatic system will be working very hard.

Avoid stress as the headaches will come back and you will be less physically able to cope.

Use protective wear for at least forty days after you feel well enough to return to the public as you are still infectious.

I am sick of telling people to cover their hands, nose, eyes and mouth.  Sick of it.  Why are people so fucking stupid?

Ok, so I have been chatting with some other people who aren’t stupid, and we all smell some pretty major rats with the way this is being handled, for many reasons:

The information being given to the public does not relate to the anecdotal information.  Whilst this is common in situations where some of the people involved suffer from ‘science’ snobbery – as in they believe that their epistomology is superior to everybody else’s – we don’t quite understand how this could be mishandled to the degree it appears to have been.

According to the information most people seem to have, there is no point in wearing a mask because it is ineffective.  This is a bit like saying condoms are ineffective.  Clearly a virus originating in the nose and mouth should be prevented by covering your nose and mouth.  Why nobody that is not Victorian or Korean accepts this I do not know.  I would have thought that it would make sense to even the stupidest person, but apparently not. It is also far easier to effectively clean a nice smooth glove than it is to get into every crevice of your hand, so whilst washing them is nice, wash them and then put them in a glove and wash them again.

Coronavirus also has an incubation period, which varies according to your immune system.  Whilst your average Joe incubates it for five days, a healthy person can incubate it for far longer.  (I once delayed the onset of shingles by three weeks because of my knowledge of nutritional health, for an example of delaying the onset of a full blown virus)  This means in the case of coronavirus that you could be cheerfully spreading it for up to forty or so days without knowing it.   Clearly the only answer to this issue is to mask and glove up to protect others rather than messing about with training yourself not to touch anything.

The official line is that you are looking out for a fever and dry cough.  This is far too late.  All the available anecdotal information that I looked at indicates that you are actually looking out for a sore throat, tiredness and travelling headaches.  This is approximately a week earlier than any potential fever and dry cough.  So are we to understand that you actually want people to spread this disease and recover from it without knowing that you had it?

Why is Sir Patrick Vallance still Chief Scientific adviser when he induced the Prime Minister to make a speech which would normally add up to career suicide?  Why would you still listen to someone who appears to be delibarately misunderstanding the nature of a virus which is known to repeatedly infect the same person?  You would have to be a complete numpty to suggest any herd immunity solutions to this, or perhaps a hardline Tory who has never experienced any real difficulties in his life and who does not value ‘useless eaters.’

I also question this lockdown idea.  This would seem to be a lethally stupid economic idea and a trigger for a number of changes to civil liberties which are entirely undesirable and which neither I, nor any far sighted individual would countenance for a second. This may be a novel virus, but the practical solutions to it are all well documented by the Victorians, who had thousands of respiratory infections and oodles of experience with pneumonia. Why is this not being entertained?  It is not even possible to question anyone about it, far less propose an alternative.

I also wonder why the public are being discouraged from boosting their immune system, since this affects immunocompromised people.  Why would you do this? This ought to be a golden opportunity to remind people that their diet ought to be of huge concern.

Are we to assume that this is all a series of huge errors of judgement, not from our government, but from everyone’s?  If so, it is definitely time, dear reader, to join a political party or perhaps start a new one.