A little tired and hungover!

 Hi,

So....I just read back over my last blog - which I forgot to post - maybe I hadn't finished? anyway it is mainly talking about Trump....he has left now thankfully...and his impeachment trial is ongoing - but he wont get found guilty....

So England went into the 3rd Lockdown on 6th Jan 2021 (I think that was the date) and it is now 6th Feb 2021 and I down think the lockdown will be lifted until March.  We still have high daily death rates and people in hospital.  The vaccine is being rolled out - think they have moved from the over 80's to the over 70's.  People in care homes have had the vaccination too.  My mum and Andy's parents have had it, as well as Helen and Paul because they work for the NHS....don't think me and Andy will get it until May - and because i am not 50 until May - I could miss out on the over 50's if it comes to us before then.  I'm a bit nervous about it - hate needles! Also some people get quite ill - but I don't really care, I'd rather feel a little safer having had it!

The UK is now at 111,264 - so well over 100,000 cases - the new variant didn't help being so much more contagious. We have been over 1,000 cases a day and too many days.... Hopefully the vaccines will start to have an effect soon.  People have been living with this for almost a year now and life has just changed so very much.  Seems like such a distant memory being able to just get together with people - go out shopping, go for a meal or a night out.  How we took it all for granted!

Last Friday, I decided to get dressed up - by that I mean - but actual normal clothes on rather than lounge wear! I did my hair and put some make-up on and got Connor and Andy to make an effort too - they were more than happy to join in - then we had a games night - we called it our night out, in.  We did the same again last night - hence why I'm a bit delicate today!  We have a really good time with Connor - we all have a good laugh and play pool!  Everything has been a lot more fun lately, partly, or maybe mostly, because Connor moved in, but partly I think, because I am enjoying work a lot more - I've changed my hours and am working Mon/Tues Thurs/Fri and work longer days so I get Wednesday's off.  Also - Andy has started to get interviews and the market seems to be improving.

I still can't wait though until we can start to get back to 'normal' or at least having the kids come around with all the babies!!  They wont be babies when I see them though they are all growing up so fast!!

Doesn't look like 2021 is going to be better than the infamous 2020!

 

Hi again!

So today there have been the most deaths reported in a 24 hour period than any other day since the pandemic began - with 1,325 deaths.  To think we were over the worst of in the summer - and we actually went out once or twice too!

Well the other day I posted figures for the first time in months - this was on Tuesday and it is now Friday - here is a comparison:

Tuesday 6th Jan 2021

Total world cases: 86,549,352

Total fatalities: 1,871,620

UK total cases: 2,774,479

UK fatalities: 76,305

Friday 8th Jan 2021

Total world cases: 88,902,065 - difference of 2,352,713

Total fatalities: 1,915,338 - difference of 43,718

UK total cases: 2,957,472 - difference of 182,993

UK fatalities: 79,833 - difference of 3,528

Over 1,000 deaths a day in the UK since Tuesday!  I don't mind admitting I don't want to leave the house - it is very scary!

In other news - after talking about the madness of president Trump - it all went to crap in America!!

So, Congress convened to validate Joe Biden’s presidential win, Trump addressed the crowd just outside the White House for more than an hour, urging them to march on the Capitol building. “We will not take it any more,” he said.  “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong … I know everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building. To peacefully, patriotically make your voices heard.”  The crowd followed his instructions and began marching on the Capitol.

Many of these people had guns on them!  They forced their way into the capital building - and senators were terrified and hiding - this was all on TV - we sat there amazed watching it on the news (so many times in the last year we have watched TV news in disbelief over one thing or another!).

In the end 4 people died and one police officer....

When all those people were inside the building - Trump was called upon to do/say something - eventually he released a recording which started with the RUBBISH that he had been cheated - he told the rioters - we love you, but you need to go home!  NOT you are criminals causing criminal damage and threat to lives, leave or be shot or arrested - lots of people are saying if it was the Black Lives Matter protestors it would have been very different!

Since then there have been calls for him to be impeached (again) or to use the 25th amendment to remove him.  I don't think either of these will happen as he has less than 2 weeks left as president - but I wish they would do it!

He later came out and condemned the rioters - but it did not seem genuine - and it was edited so somebody took his stupid rants out to make it look better.  he is now saying he is not going to attend Biden's inauguration...CNN said:

President Donald Trump said he would not attend his successor's swearing-in, a day after his top aides cajoled him into releasing a video conceding he would soon be departing office.

"To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th," Trump tweeted, making formal what many had long assumed: that Trump would eschew the traditional step of personally demonstrating the peaceful hand-off of power to President-elect Joe Biden. He'll be the first outgoing president to skip his replacement's inauguration in more than 150 years.

It came as Trump faces an uncertain final stretch in office. His top aides delivered a blunt warning to him Thursday as he sat sullenly in the West Wing and watched as his Republican allies, Cabinet secretaries and former senior staffers criticized or denounced him one by one.

It is crazy that he was voted in, in the first place - as he's an egotistical idiot on a huge power trip who cannot take/accept losing and has to sulk and blame everybody else - wow he makes me so annoyed!!!  Most of the people breaking into the Capitol building were not wearing masks and we are in the worst part of this pandemic with evidence of a new much more contagious variant - so there will be a massive spike in the virus amongst the people that were there (typical Trump supporters because he has led ppl to believe that it is nothing to be scared of).