Yes I’m still here because like the virus I have not finished. I will try to continue to give a rational opinion of how the battle with the coronavirus unfolds with time.
Today was the day in Britain, well England where the target
of 100,000 tests for Covid-19 was due to be met. And fair enough it has been
with 122, 000 folk tested. This is both good and bad, certainly good as the
more people tested the better as there is a desperate need to find those who
have or are carriers of Covid-19. The less good side of this is the government
made the target of 100,000 tests a day a priority to be met by 1st
May. To me it felt like who is tested became something of a free for all in
the last couple of day in order to achieve it. So certain key workers such as doctor’s’
nurses and staff in care homes have found it very difficult to get tested in
the last few days.
The other issue here in Britain is that despite the large
increase in tests for Covid-19 there is still no real system to follow up on
contacts where a test proves to be positive. So the benefits that could be
achieved are not really happening. The result of this is that the state of
lockdown could last much longer because the rate at which folk are dying will
only drop slowly and those in high risk areas such as care homes will not
benefit quickly enough to save many lives.
I also feel that many are starting to feel the pressure of
continued Social Distancing under lockdown and even here in rural Shropshire there
were more cars about today. We will see how things progress.
And I may not be posting every day particularly as the sun is
due to emerge from the clouds again over the next couple of days and I still
have tasks to complete outside. . . . .
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