I came across this beautiful and friendly chap on one of my recent expeditions to that dark and mysterious territory known as The Outside.
Prior to this pandemic, thanks to Brexit and the ensuing culture war, Britain has been engulfed in political turmoil for three years. Each day seemed to bring a new political calamity, which was then promptly forgotten when the next one happened 24 hours later. Weeks felt like months, months felt like years. I really regret not keeping a simple note of events as they happened, just so I could look back and try and make some sense of it all.
So during this period I’ve decided to sum up the weekly events that have struck me the most, from the deadly serious to the absurdly ridiculous. If my tone seems flippant at times…well, we all have our own way of getting through this horror.
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This week in The Coronapocalypse:
- Scottish Chief Medical Officer resigns for breaching her own social distancing rules after holiday home visits
- PM Boris Johnson admitted to hospital ‘as a precaution’, having suffered prolonged Covid-19 symptoms
- Queen gives rousing special address to the nation for only the fifth time in her 68 year reign. Nation heartened
- Boris Johnson admitted to intensive care as health worsens. Nation deflated
- Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab apparently now running Government
- Nobody is really sure who is running Government
- NHS Nightingale recieves first patients
- Daily deaths in Italy gradually decreasing
- Daily deaths in UK significantly increasing
- No new deaths recorded in China
- NHS workers put at risk due to lack of PPE. Some use plastic bags
- Airbnb halts bookings in UK following complaints that hosts have been advertising properties as Covid-19 retreats
- Chocolate giant Mondelēz (Cadbury and Oreo) repurposes 3D printing technology used for chocolate sculptures to make medical visiors for NHS staff
- Some NHS workers send children to live with relatives in bid to protect them from Covid-19. It’s the Blitz all over again
- PM transferred from intensive care to low dependency ward as health improves
- Massive advertising campaign launched to discourage Brits from going out during the long and sunny Easter weekend
- US becomes first country to record more than 2000 deaths in one day
- Images emerge of coffins being buried in mass grave in New York City
- Daily deaths in Spain gradually decreasing
- EU agrees €500bn rescue package
- PM improving and sitting up in bed
Worldwide cases: 1,784,331 (previous week 1,203,109)
Worldwide deaths: 108,962 (previous week 64,743)
UK cases: 78,991 (previous week 41,903)
UK deaths: 9,875 (previous week 4,313 )