We are now in the third national lockdown (which “may last for months” and whilst restrictions may be lifted for the warmer summer months of 2021, some may be re-imposed for winter). The same businesses that had support before are going to get support again, the same businesses that were #ExcludedUK before are excluded again.
It sucks, there are no two ways about it, but I don’t see what the options are either. My Dad is an extremely vulnerable person (85, triple heart bypass, Parkinson’s disease), and checking with the NHS, my wife has been told to contact the GP today. I suspect it is ‘flu as the symptoms are fairly typical and I’m probably fine because I had a shot last October. On the other hand, if it is COVID, that may now make me an asymptomatic carrier.
The BBC is, harking to my younger days, going to start broadcasting educational programmes. CBBC for primary school children and BBC Two for secondary school children, starting next Monday. Anyway, this is diverging from politics.
Yesterday, I said that border traffic was low and that the Brexit queues had yet to materialise at the ports. That’s not to say there haven’t been problems. Reuters reports that Paris M&S shops have little to no stock of fresh food.
Meanwhile, there have been multiple occurrences of problems travelling abroad, whether the destination is Sweden, Spain, Netherlands or Germany. Some of those are because of COVID regulations now that we are outside the EU.