Always Better to Supervise!

I popped over to Blakeney for a bimble and to buy a picture I’d spotted in the gallery yesterday when it was closed. I ended up shopping rather than walking, I put my back out at the weekend and it’s still too delicate to walk far. I ended up getting a different one by the same artist of the coast path from Morston towards Blakeney. I’ve added an extra of the blue tit aliens chicks, at least 7 mouths to feed.

Day 423 /  Day 32 of Step 2 of Roadmap Easing (for my record only
The Indian variant has been spreading in the UK with 1,313 cases identified in total, double that a week ago. SAGE has been meeting today to discuss available options and Boris is ‘ruling nothing out’ to tackle its spread. Another example of the Govt being too slow, this time to put India on the Red List and to declare an Indian variant as being of concern (surely given what was happening in India, the prudent action would have been to declare all variants from there as being of concern and then change the decision if data supports it, same with the Red List). The WHO has declared another ‘variant of concern’ from India. One Professor on Independent SAGE has said that next week’s easing of restrictions should be pushed back. I did hear a report last night of some people in India repeatedly passing a PCR test even though they clearly had the virus, a variant evading testing would be a big problem if it happens. BA is doing a trial with its flight and cabin crew of a new saliva test called Pelican, which gives a result in 25 seconds. Results will be compared to a standard test taken at the same time. If successful this would be a big step forward. A paper published in the BMJ says delaying the 2nd dose like the UK did to give more people a jab might cut deaths by up to 20% overall and is particularly effective in under 65s. Unbelievably the Champions League final between two British clubs has been moved from Istanbul to Portugal, not the UK! At the end of March 4.95m in England are waiting to start their hospital treatment (c1 in 11), the highest since records began. 436,127 had been waiting 12 months or more, in March 2020 it was only 3,097. A peer reviewed paper on the NHS Covid app says it’s ‘prevented thousands of deaths’.