Tuesday
Total world cases: 3,710,445------------------- 69,630 increase
Total fatalities: 256,994-------------------------5,178 increase
UK total: 194,990------------------------------- 4,406 increase
UK Fatalities: 29,427--------------------------- 693 increase
Wednesday
Total world cases: 3,807,554------------------- 97,109 increase
Total fatalities: 264,006-------------------------7,012 increase
UK total: 201,101------------------------------- 6,111 increase
UK Fatalities: 30,076--------------------------- 649 increase
So - as you can see we hit the 30,000 mark. That is a massive amount of people. Figures just keep going up and up....who knows where this will end, when it will end - if it will ever end.
News - Bank of England warn of deep UK recession. No shit Sherlock! There is speculation that some lock down measures could be eased on Monday....really? because we are doing so well? I don't think so! I guess some people just can't survive, pay the bills, buy food? We live in fear of Andy losing his job, in fact his role has already gone and his team are gradually leaving and finding other roles - so the fear is finding a new job - and if it all goes wrong we would lose the house etc. However, at the moment salaries are still being paid - so I guess we are lucky and would want the lock down measures to continue for our safety, but other people haven't been that lucky. But - if the measures are reduced, more people WILL die...the government seem to simply be concerned about the NHS coping - not people losing actual lives. It's tricky - because people are desperate to get some normality back, but a price will be paid until we get a vaccine...
Anyway - yesterday - Wednesday - I decided that I wasn't going to sit and do nothing all day like many days! So I went out into the nice weather and cut the grass. It takes about an hour and a half as there is so much lawn area, I do about 11,000 steps - which is more than our 5km walks - closer to 10km. So I guess it was exercise too. However, there ends up a lot of thinking time, as walking up and down with a mower doesn't keep you mentally distracted - so I kept thinking about my dad which made me obviously very sad. During this time, Andy was studying, for want of a better word, ready for an interview on Friday - he has been looking for another job but as you might imagine - not many people are hiring right now... Once the mowing was done - and I got cleaned up - we went and sat in the garden with a beer and just chatted, chilled out. We are both trying our best to keep our spirits up in the middle of the global catastrophe but it is not all that easy. When the sun started to hide behind the house - we came indoors - made food and got ready to go online with Helen and Paul.
It was about 7.30pm when we all got virtually together. I started off asking Helen how she was - and she'd had a chat with a colleague who is a mental health something-or-other. She mentioned post traumatic stress disorder - and I asked if she thought she had that (which wouldn't surprise me because what we went through in Manchester with Dad was pretty horrendous). But she said no - PTSD is something that appears at a later date when you haven't processed something - whereas she is struggling mentally now - she then had to go off screen for a minute because she got upset. I really felt for her - because she is doing what I keep doing - breaking down, remembering, hurting - it's not good. She pulled herself together and we all tried to change the subject - and started chatting about other stuff for a while - before playing a game. Me and Helen won - jointly - so we had a tie-breaker - and I lost lol. It had been a very nice distraction for a while - and I think I said it on Tuesday when we were online with the kids - it's the new way of getting together with people - and although its all online, it is the closest thing we have to social interaction. It was quite late when we got off this call - so we watched something briefly on TV then got to bed.