It’s been announced today that there will be massive Covid-19 testing for people aged 65+ and those leaving their homes for work and their family members if they show symptoms. More importantly all NHS and social care frontline workers, hospital patients & care home residents will be able to get tested whether or not they have symptoms. Seems a bit like shutting the gate after the horse has bolted but I suppose it’s better than nothing.
British Airways will make 12,000 staff redundant, SAS (Scandinavian airways will cut their personnel by half. John Lewis said it’s unlikely they will open all their stores after lockdown and this is the tip of the iceberg as far as redundancies go. Let’s hope that British entrepreneurs will find a few new initiatives here at home and create a few new jobs.
We are now going to be allowed to visit our local dump with garden waste. Social distancing will need to be maintained and you will need to be the proud owner of a garden – supposedly. People will definitely be excited about having this outing on their agenda, bet you never expected that to happen. Meanwhile a church in Florida remains open during lockdown because the pastor believes that faith will cure coronavirus. Other churches remain open because the pastors have convinced their followers that it is their right to have religious freedom. I hope they stay alive long enough to enjoy it.
Under EU smoking regulations menthol cigarettes are to be banned in the UK. In fact any flavoured smoking product will be banned from May 20th. I’m really glad I stopped smoking.
I keep thinking about cooking different things and today for some reason I was considering meatloaf. Not something I’ve made a lot of in my life and not something I even like very much but there I was looking up the recipe. I realised that I didn’t need details of how to make it as I already knew. Now I don’t know whether to give it a go or not. Am I the only person doing this in lockdown? I’ve also been updating my nannyjune.com website, with the help of my son of course. I’ve now got different sections apart from the blog. There should be, recipes, short stories, artwork and that’s for starters. Except I haven’t started to add anything yet, it’s on my todo list. There is talk of lockdown beginning to open up in two to three weeks so if I don’t get a move on with my todos I’ll have to stay at home while you’re all out enjoying freedom.
I think all of Britain who was able to stopped today for the one minute silence. Well done everyone, together we can do this. Good night