Starving To Live 3: O Corona All Ye Faithful!

 Deaths have now crested 300 a day. We're on course for half a million infections a month the way things have been this last month or so. Yet where is the action? Bristol has been put into Tier 1 and a half, or "1+". What on earth does this even mean? Why are our politicians so incapable of addressing this? Three tiers were bad enough, clearly a system that wasn't working, so now we have half tiers? Apparently it means the city gets some money for local tracing and can organise Covid Marshals. Good luck with that, you can imagine how popular they are going to be! Not!

We are at the end of October (no need to check). Two months until Christmas. I have to believe it will be the death knell of this government if they allow this to continue over the Christmas period. We can't have O Corona All Ye Faithful; mince pies while grandma dies. Imagine the public mood when hundreds are dying during the Queen's speech! Is the levity appropriate? We will never have seen the like quite possible since the war. This is dark and uncharted territory, dead in winter's grasp. Beat the reaper!

But can the government institute a lockdown over Christmas? Clearly that's preferable and, clearly also, it now seems inevitable. The longer the leave it the more likely that will take place over Christmas. They've got November, basically. They've left themselves no breathing room at all. Yet another bloody bookmark in the biography of misery that is 2020. All written with our blood and their pen.

A Christmas lockdown will of course be met with the sternest resistance. Shops will be crying out for a retail break; just the sort that happens over Christmas. They will want rampant consumerism, and I've no doubt there's enough people willing to oblige. More than willing! If they can't, this country could explode - they will have a very difficult time enforcing people staying away from traditional family get together. Turkeys may well be the only ones getting a breather this year!

This is a godawful mess, and it's one entirely of the government's making. We must never let that be forgotten, certainly not in the next few years when the Covid free Waterstones shelves will be littered with books written by money grubbers and politicians, seeking to salve their conciseness, following this deadly debcale. For now all we have is all we have.