The Maiden Voyage

Without the maiden, it must be said. Though she did give me a bit of a shearing before I went out.

*stop reading here*

What else is happening in the world? Nothing quite so important, I imagine. We have to wear facemarks in shops now. Delightful.

In the wider world, there are a record number of new cases. Places like India where there was a brief lockdown have thrown in the towel. We’ve picked it up and put in on our faces. 

*definitely stop reading here*

I note that in the far away NY Times, Ms Sridhar is frankly spinning simple untruths - she states that England and Scotland, "took radically different approaches from the start: England’s priority was to prevent its hospitals from being overrun, while Scotland’s was to drive cases down to zero.” That is total rot.
She does have form for "misspeaking" of course, having already been caught out on more than one occasion and being forced to delete her tweets. Cassandra, I say.

*actually, read this*

What does Mark Woolhouse say? He’s on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group and Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, so he might be worth listening to. 


"Covid-19 is not going away any time soon, if at all, so we need to devise alternative solutions. It’s concerning that lockdown is still the WHO’s recommended public health response six months into the pandemic. No Plan B is being offered to countries such as Brazil or India that can’t or won’t inflict such a damaging policy on their peoples….. 

I fear that history will judge lockdown as a monumental mistake on a truly global scale."



Oops sorry. Must get on. More musings to follow...