Clap for the NHS. As if things weren’t bad enough!

A week last Thursday the entire United Kingdom clapped and cheered the NHS workers at 8PM. That’s what TV and radio reported, and I’m sure this happened. I’ve heard reports and first hand accounts, but I didn’t hear anything. Nor did I attemp to make an effort to see if anything local was happening. I didn’t join in.

I started this in 4th April 2020:

Today is Friday 13th 2020, time: 21:31 and quite a lot has happened. If you want to know what, read a few books, papers, and websites. There’s too much news! But here’s a few highlights:

1. Nurses aren’t getting any more pay.
2. Captain Tom was knighted.
3. Nurses didn’t get more pay.
4. £12,000,000,000 was spent on a Track and Trace system that didn’t work. Thanks Serco!
5. The NHS Track and Trace app was deployed – and didn’t work.
6. Yesterday, the UK recorded 50,000 Covid deaths based on the 28 day since a positive test measurement. This is the highest death toll in Europe.
7. The head of the UK vaccine taskforce shared Official Sensitive documents on a $200/head Zoom call.
8. The same head of the UK vaccine taskforce spent £670,000 on a boutique PR firm with links Dominic Cumming’s father in-law
9. You get the idea.

The clapping lasted for ten weeks and raised the spirits of the nation – apparently – for a while, to distract them from incompetence.

This subject is miserable, and at the same time I’m enjoying blogging again. All I can say is that it helps, and it will help in the future. I’m doing this for the sake of doing this. And this isn’t a bad thing. Just doing stuff is fine. But this is miserable. My hope is that we will get over the pandemic without too many scars, but I doubt it. Although, these may well be the good old days. The old days always end up being the good days. We need to re-frame them that way. After all, how else could we have modelled ourselves so much on WWI and WWII? We turned these wars in to good things. We’ve reached the point where laying a wreath that warns about future wars at the Cenotaph on Nov 11th is disrespectful. After 100 years of Poppy Day, I’m not outraged.

So, clap if you like. Wear a poppy if you like. Look righteous if you want/need to. Spirits were raised for a while, but nothing will change.