Saturday Morning

Hi - so I went to bed last night without writing the blog - but I did manage to get the figures for yesterday....

Thursday
Total world cases: 2,714,736------------------- 81,504 increase
Total fatalities:  190,293-------------------------6,468 increase
UK total: 138,078-------------------------------4,583 increase
UK Fatalities: 18,738---------------------------638 increase

Friday
Total world cases: 2,826,032-------------------111,296  increase
Total fatalities:  197,034-------------------------6,741 increase
UK total: 143,464-------------------------------5,386 increase
UK Fatalities: 19,506---------------------------768 increase

It was reported that the death rate figures in the UK are reducing.  Hard to see really when it is always so many still....

Also in the news - thousands of home testing kits were made available to essential workers and their families - you had to apply online and they were gone within an hour.  It only tests if you have it - not the anti-body test like I assumed, so not sure how helpful that will be - better than nothing I assume with people finding out they have it when they had no idea as there are supposedly so many people with no symptoms.

President Trump seems to be a complete ass.  On Thursday he spoke about injecting disinfectant into the body to cure coronavirus (which would actually kill you!) he asked medical experts to look into it.  Then on Friday he claimed that he "was asking a question sarcastically to reporters like you just to see what would happen."  Who does that? People with the virus who were scared may have done this and killed themselves!  He is such an idiot.

Here's what Trump said Thursday while looking in the direction of coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx and Department of Homeland Security science official Bill Bryan: "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs. So it would be interesting to check that. So, that, you're going to have to use medical doctors with. But it sounds -- it sounds interesting to me."

So - yesterday - same as usual really, went walking with the dogs in the sun, had lunch outside - I am having so much trouble with Airbnb - we have had a guest for a week now - who hasn't manage to book or pay yet because Airbnb have blocked my calendar and they are supposed to unblock for the medical profession - and they can't seem to do it, so I wasted a lot of time on chat to them and nothing was achieved.  This morning our guest tried to book later dates where it is not unblocked but airbnb want to charge her a £100 service fee.  If they sorted it out properly, with our guest as a key worker they would waive their fees.  It makes me wonder if it is the loss of their fees that is making it so difficult to sort it out.  So its an ongoing very annoying problem.  If they don't sort it out today I am going to tweet about how they are letting health workers and host down....

So - yesterday we discussed getting online with Andy and Paul - for a 'get together' and I was really tired and Helen wasn't in the mood - but in the end I had a kip and Helen bucked up and we got online together and played Family Fortunes lol.  It was a good night actually - although we lost!  Mum watched a film as she didn't fancy it.  We had a drink but didn't get drunk so we were not feeling rough this morning which is awesome!

Last night Helen broke my mum's clipboard - she just lent on it - she claimed that she was going to blame me - and this morning - she actually did blame me!! Very convincingly!  I get in trouble for everything already as it is! Luckily she admitted it was her - although only after mum said it was cracked already!