Five million Britons over 70 years old will have received today or will be receiving a letter from the NHS inviting them to book for a free Covid vaccine. The government seems to be in a hurry to get everyone vaccinated with promises to put police, school staff and other key employees at the top of the list. It’s difficult to know who to leave out with bus drivers, supermarket workers and others in the service industry putting themselves at risk most days. I got my letter but as I already had my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine it says I can just ignore it. I wonder how many more people like me received one. Surely doctor’s surgeries are on a central database and people already vaccinated should have been identified. Another waste of tax payers money.
Also in the news is the unwelcome fact that over the last week the UK has the highest rate of Covid daily deaths in the world. 16 deaths in every million have died each day. We sadly top the list, this is nothing to be proud of. It can’t necessarily be because we were mixing too much over Christmas period. I spoke to a friend in Spain yesterday and their shops, restaurants and bars are open until 6 in the evening. She’s in Andalucia and I’m not sure about Madrid. Everything was closed a few days ago due to storm Filomena which brought the heaviest snow seen in the capital in forty years. I’ll have to see what I can find out.
The Trumps will be leaving The White House at first light tomorrow I believe. The POTUS and the FLOTUS have given their farewell speeches via video link and they will be gone in Airforce One to their Florida bolt hole. Then as I understand it, their goods and chattels are moved out before a team of cleaners move in to deep clean before the new President takes up residence with his missus. We can watch the inauguration ceremony on TV from 4 pm if we feel like it. I’m sure there’ll be plenty of useless chatter going on before that.
It will be interesting to see what the MAGA & QAnon will be up to but no doubt there will be heavy security in Washington DC tomorrow at least. There was one woman Trump supporter today who absolutely denied there was any violence in the Capitol the other day. She said she was there and it didn’t happen. Maybe it was a Hollywood film we all saw, it certainly looked like one with the horned beast rearing his ugly head.
And while all this has been going on in the capital, in Chicago a man has been living in O’Hare Airport for three months (and no, it wasn’t Tom Hanks). The man from California said he was afraid to get on his flight because of the coronavirus so he just hung around the airport. He was arrested for illegal trespass. The judge was shocked by the lack of security that allowed this to happen. Hey people, let’s be careful out there. š“š¤š“