I have to admit to not watching the daily Covid update on TV. Apart from depressing, irritating and inconclusive, it’s actually quite boring. I can put on the news at 6 o’clock and get all the highlights or lowlights by 6.10 pm. Job done. BoJo’s government is talking of quarantining travellers arriving in the UK. Of course Australia has had these rules in place for a long time and their numbers have been controlled with new cases becoming almost non existent. There have been less than a thousand deaths in total. Now the big question here is, do we quarantine visitors and if so where do we put them. Hotels say it will take a good three weeks to prepare for quarantine and that providing three meals a day and enhanced cleaning will mean that visitors will have to pay at least £100 per day per person. I can’t help wondering what meals would be served to their rooms three times a day. Airport hotels are not renowned for their cuisine.
If you’re a parent wondering when your kids can go back to school you’ll have to wait and see. At this moment in time no one knows. The PM said that the R number is down below 1 again across the whole of the country and he doesn’t want to jeopardise the progress made during the latest lockdown. Fair point but parents and all the children are beginning to feel the strain.
Now I know that the Trump has disappeared into some Mar el Lago bunker but his old lawyer Michael Cohen has suggested that he might have given himself and his children pardons before the end of his tenure. It appears that pardons do not necessarily have to be made public so it could have happened in secret. However it’s not clear if a sitting President can actually pardon himself as it’s never been done before. If it is allowed, will it stop him being impeached? These questions and many others will be answered in the next episode of Soap.
Donald owes £400 million which will need to be repaid in the next few years. The rumour on Wall Street is that he will try to convince his 74.2 million voter supporters to pay him $100 each per year to receive his musings in a newsletter. He’s still banned from social media of course so he’s hoping they’ll be so desperate to know what their hero is thinking that they might just cough up. If only 25 million people signed up he would net $2.5 billion. It doesn’t bare thinking about.
Have you been watching Finding Alice on ITV? I’ve seen two episodes and can’t make up my mind if I like it or not. There’s a supply of good actors and Joanna Lumley and Nigel Havers are great as Alice’s parents who come out with endless unhelpful questions and statements. Anyway having now seen episode 2 where Alice and her daughter are arranging the funeral , I think a more suitable title might have been Losing Harry. That’s it for today, don’t forget people, let’s be careful out there.