#114.20 - Sunday #30: Time is bending and breaking

The prettiest Cherry Tree

It has been three days since I tried doing this entry. So much has happened since. I made some terrible pasta. I had to prep for the new term. I have been trying to get my head round Google Classroom. There has been a lot of learning.

We have settled into some kind of normalcy. Working from home is the new normal now. I have gotten used to it. Well sort of. I am still trying to find a routine that works for me. It seems a bit haphazzard. If I am honest the first two weeks were the best. Then came the holidays and then I've found the rest of the time a bit all over the place again.

MONEY is weird. I spent almost nothing at all in the last two weeks. The first two weeks, loads, the last two weeks close to nothing. I have also stopped looking at the news and wondering when the lockdown will be over. There is now an almighty bun fight about a few things in the news is what I can gather. First, the PPE - the equipment which the hospitals can't give staff to attend to people with the virus. And then, basically how deadly is the virus, really. Truth be told not deadly at all in Northern Ireland thus far, with social distancing measures - apparently Irish people are more or less immune to the virus. I kid you not. The death toll here is really quite low. I don't know why this is. Possibly because they are so spread out? They have a younger population in general? Who knows?

I mean between Ireland and Northern Ireland, it is just under 900 deaths. Maybe even less. I mean 900 deaths in the space of one month? That's just over 200 deaths in a week. How many died from flu? Were these deaths caused by the virus or complicated by the virus? So many questions.

But the long and short of it all is that Ireland has gotten away very lightly. And no one knows why.

So the other argument is about the lockdown and how much longer it is going to go on for. Everyday ministers go on TV and look pained and upset and sorry but the truth is that the number of deaths and so much lower than everyone expected. So now the question is - if we lift it, are we going to end up being reinfected. I am so pissed off with this vaccine. I am not taking it.

It is mental. I hate the health system. I hate the stupid backward lazy pill for every problem way in which disease is treated. It is ludicrous.