Extra Time 1: The Quarantine Cross Code

So there's a tentative plan to ease us out of lockdown, apparently it meets the approval of the idiot in chief. No doubt belched out from his opulent sickbed in Chequers, like taking a dump in Harrods. (About the most exciting thing you can in that ridiculous place.)

The idea is there will be three stages: red, amber, and green.

In the "red phase" some shops will open and people will be able to visit friends and family. Not entirely sure what that means as travel is still discouraged. All that will mean is peole will just travel around under the pretext of visiting friends and family. The minute you relax restrictions on personal movement, you might as well give up surely?

Later, it says, we move to amber. At this point, idiots will ignore pedestrian crossings and just drive straight through. Oh wait, that's everyday life anyway. Herein people can go to restaurants that, like Sweden, manage to efecitvely police social distancing. That means they will only be able to cater for half their normal capacity and so what's the point? Public transport will become available for people who have masks, excpet there aren't any masks. In Taiwan families are given masks. Can't see that happening under this shower.

In the subsequent green phase churches pubs and gyms become available. But the vulnerable will still need to be sheltered, meaning everyone will still need to be sheltered.

Now, if I'm sounding cynical it's because it's perfectly clear this is all haphazard guesswork. Whether or not you agree with the need for a lockdown, and it seems thanks to governmental stupidity they left themselves out of options, there's no way back down from shit creek. At least not one without a shit covered ladder constructed from wishful thinking. We are in uncharted territory, sent there aboard a leaking boat crewed by people who don't understand starboard from port (except the liquid kind).

Unfortunately, while I admit to early scepticism about the lockdown, I think really there is no alternative. Even Sweden has restrictions it's just they so far appear to be sensible about it. But they are sheltering the vulnerable and broadly encouraging people not to go out and about. I have no idea if that would work over here, but then we've got nothing on the absolute disaster in parts of the US with morons calling social distancing "communism"!

Here's today's daily dose of sweary anarchism. In this case read it and weep, this is the reality for our carers. A word that's just a platitude for the safely isolated elite being subsidised to do so (now I read the Lords are getting in on the act, demanding money). Our system is bankrupt and bereft.