Who do you believe, your government, your local MP, your eminent scientist (or bunch of), your award winning journalists? I don't know any more, I think my next door neighbour's cat would have as good a chance of not lying to me than any of them. And scores of others unmentioned. Benjamin Disraeli once said: “There are three kinds of lies......lies, damned lies, and statistics."
I really don't know what to make of the latest UK lockdown, it seems illogical and poorly thought out and is, in my husband's view, disingenuous, a lie too many issued to placate a nation already fed up of being treated like idiots. P is unhappy because we can no longer have a meal out in spite of being in a very low infection risk locality, I'm unhappy about the Christmas 'respite' which might have huge consequences a few weeks later. We both agree that a full lockdown for everyone, with no let-up until a vaccination programme is successfully and measurably under way, would be the safest solution but of course we also know that for some that would be unbearable.
P said people would break the law if they made things that severe, adding that he would too. I told him I wouldn't but he just shrugged and said I'd have to if he decided to. Talk about waving a red rag to a bull, he does have a way of pissing me off sometimes, I bit back sharply that I didn't 'have to' just because he decided. He said we'd see about that at the time, if it happened. I thought he might engage me but he didn't, he just went upstairs to listen to some webinar. Bastard, he could at least have threatened to spank me. Maybe he will later, I thought.
He didn't.
Stay safe.
Have a good week.
Ronnie
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