Bluster Again

Another blustery day. Like Dominic Cummings (ha, more on that tomorrow I suspect) I took an essential family related trip, except mine was just along to Porty. And I don’t have “the covid." A confirmation. No surprise, but saddening and something I foolishly hoped could be avoided. I’m off the case.
Later a double bill of films, The $50 Million Art Swindle, which was tremendously entertaining, as well as being a joy to watch, being most skilfully and artily put together, and later The County, an Icelandic film set amongst the diary farmers in some remote area. A bit of a disappointment, in truth. Just a bit … dull.
So, what’s the latest? 

Just this, about children and covid-19. I won’t mention the source in case it prejudices your enjoyment of it:

At yesterday's Downing Street press briefing, Sir Patrick Vallance, was asked what risk COVID-19 poses to children. He replied: "They are very low risk, but not zero risk. And there have been some serious cases in children, of course, but very few compared to adults and older age groups."
So, very few…  up to the the week ending May 8th, there were two deaths of children aged 14 or under. There were no such deaths in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Two in total for the whole of the UK. There are 11.91 million children aged 14 and under in the UK. So that means the chances of a child under the age of 15 dying from COVID-19 are one in 5,955,000. 
An average of 49 people are injured by lightning in the UK each year and if we assume those strikes are distributed equally across different age groups that means about eight children aged 14 or under are struck by lightning each year (my note: suspect logic here - the taller you are, the more likely you are to be struck, ha).
So the chances of a child under the age of 15 being struck by lightning are four times higher than them dying of COVID-19.


Disclaimer: added here for future reference. Not necessarily to illicit responses.