Lockdown Day 3

• The NHS staff keeping our health service going deserve every bit of praise they get. They are risking their lives dealing with contagious patients without the PPE they need. True heroes.

• I’m extremely grateful that I live in a country with a single payer health system. I’d be terrified to be an ‘average American’ right now. 

• It’s good to show your appreciation. Even better would be to show your support at the ballot box and to stop voting into power a party that has systematically defunded the NHS over the last decade.

• The EU has sourced enough ventilators for the crisis. The UK were invited to join in the scheme, because we are in effect still EU members. We declined, because Brexit. We have scarcely a fraction of the ventilators we need. Brexit is more important that breathing.

• If you don’t laugh, you cry. The lockdown is helping bring the creative side out of plenty of people. It’s bringing the best out of most people. Of course, there will always be the odd wanker.

• I’ve gotten invited to take the assessments to be a train driver, providing I survive the pandemic. This has been the goal for several years. But I find that now more than ever, sitting alone in a cab, completely isolated from the outside world, has huge appeal.

• I remain astounded at how many simpletons inhabit our planet. The current death totals are nothing to be afraid of. It’s the potential growth in fatalities. The most basic maths seems to elude a sizeable section of the community.

• This country has sufficient housing stock, food supply and energy production for the people. Going forward, we just need a government who can take what we have and make it work. Universal income is worthy of being included in that conversation.

• Mrs P and I woke up well rested and symptom free once again. Which is excellent news.