DENIERS

What is wrong with these people? Raiding hospital wards and abusing NHS staff?

Freedom of speech and beliefs versus freedom to life a healthy life free from others calculated actions. The government should enact a law which states that ignorance is not a defence to a charge of knowingly putting a life at risk by ignoring Covid restrictions.

VACCINE AND THE EU.

Well the EU seems to have screwed this up! However before we get too jingoistic Astra-Zeneca may have over estimated their ability to meet orders as well. However it is sort of gratifying to know other countries governments are just as awful as our own!

THE MAGIC MONEY TREE OF INCOMPETENCE

Anyone who has suffered from austerity of the past decade should be troubled by the way a conservative government has suddenly found billions to squander. Once upon a time we were astounded by the closure of public facilities, libraries, schools with class sizes above 35 etc. Not now. Test and trace has cost £12bn and has made little difference to the virus although many peoples bank balances must have benefited. Contracts handed out for PPE that were fraudulent are now being investigated.

WHAT NEXT?

Please Bozo do not relax rules yet. We need to bring down the infection levels to low levels let seen in the summer. How vaccines will affect the country is yet to be seen. As the jab is administered to younger age groups the % take up will be reduced (wrongly I believe).

TOMATOES

I have been given a few kg of tomatoes. Recently I made some ‘ketchup’ or sauce like thing that was great, but thought I would try a new one. Any suggestions welcome.

REWILDING BRITAIN

I just received an email from this organisation, and I wish them the very best. But for the concept of rewilding to work it needs a fundamental change in the psychology of large numbers of the public. Nice books about rich people rewinding their land is great, but I would rather not leave it to the wealthy philanthropists!

QR CODES

QR codes were invented in Japan in the mid-90s to track components in car production.

They can hold a massive amount of data compared to standard barcodes – up to 2,500 numeric characters compared to a barcode’s 43.