Day 250
Wendy was not feeling to well and a Doctor client of hers advised her to go for a Covid test. Naturally I had to get one as well. We had to go to Wellingborough because it is impossible to get one in Northampton. They advise that you cannot travel by bus or taxi, so if it is further than a reasonable walk or bicycle ride your stuffed if you don’t have a car. The test itself is easy take no longer than 5 minutes. Now we await the results. I felt rough yesterday but today I am okay so far.
I have over this year and previous ones written about many subjects and voiced an opinion on all of them. Not withstanding my campaign against the removal of Trump (finally won) or Johnson (still ongoing), I have ranted and hopefully been reasonable about, prejudice, freedom, wealth, health, commercialism, democracy, politics and much more besides. On some subjects I am well informed on others I am more ignorant but will voice my take anyway! I do try to take a devils advocates stance but that is not always possible. It has never been my intention to upset anyone (with some exceptions) or deny their right to express their view, no matter how diametrically opposed to it I might be. I have criticised social media platforms and the access they give to people to say that which is abhorrent and hurtful, whilst being fully aware that I am using them myself. The world is a very complicated and dangerous place and far from becoming more integrated and peaceful it sometimes seems that the opposite is true. We have been tested this year (no pun intended) like no other and the pandemic has coincided with many crucial world events that have often been overshadowed by the all consuming news and daily fear of the virus. There is a general feeling of despair and fear for our future but we should remember that in the UK we are far better off than many parts of the world and whilst we are governed by a bunch of inept fools at least we are not in a dictatorship or a country where death and poverty are normal irrespective of the Covid. There is much wrong with out country and little prospect of it changing quickly if at all but we still have much to be thankful for and by far the best of those is our NHS, what ever we think no other country has a health system that is free at the point of entry no matter who you are or how poor you might be.
We will get through this and I can only hope that we do so with a better perspective and a more inclusive and kind society?
Stay well
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