Monday, 27 April 2020
DIARY DAY 3
Doom and gloom are inescapable as every day, every hour, brings worse news and more stringent measures to keep the Coronavirus from spreading. Coronavirus? Maybe three weeks ago, I thought that was something to do with the heart.
More recently, we have been told that if we get the bug, we will suffer from Covid-19. That sounds like a herbicide to me.
Why can’t the people who invent the names for these things come up with something more appropriate? Doctors who provided the defining information about specific diseases, rather surprisingly, gave their names to their chosen Illness. Like Drs Alzheimer, Parkinson and Huntington. Other illnesses have learned Greek or Latin names. Why could they not have called Clovis, Public Enemy no.1, PE1 for short or Keep Off?
What’s in a word? Quite a lot.
Keep safe, keep well
Carola x
Diary Day 2
I am the very model of effective social distancing!
I listen to the experts on the topic of resistance-ing;
I know that brunch and yoga class aren’t nearly as imperative
As doing what I can to change the nation’s viral narrative.
I’m very well acquainted, too, with living solitarily
And confident that everyone can do it temporarily:
Go take a walk, or ride a bike, or dig into an unread book;
Avoid the bars and restaurants and carry out, or learn to cook.
There’s lots of stuff to watch online while keeping safe from sinus ills
(In this case, it’s far better to enjoy your Netflix MINUS chills)!
Adopt a pet, compose a ballad, write some earnest doggerel,
And help demolish Trump before our next event inaugural.
Pandemics are alarming, but they aren’t insurmountable
If everybody pitches in to hold ourselves accountable.
In short, please do your part to practice prudent co-existence-ing,
And be the very model of effective social distancing!
Carola (who did not write it)
DIARY
Day 1
As of yesterday, Boris tells us to keep away from people and bang goes a lifetime of enjoying the company of others, not to mention the real need to see and embrace our nearest and dearest.
Of course, we have actually been ahead of Boris : we have kept away from other people and not set foot in a restaurant for over a week. And to think that when we crossed over to France just two weeks ago, Coronavirus was just something which had hit China and Italy and seemed to be of minor importance elsewhere. A week later, the significance of what one heard was inescapable. Batten your hatches!
Join the queue at the Euroshuttle terminal at Calais to come home on Sunday.
Three months of isolation is a difficult concept. We will have to reinvent ourselves, have a plan of action. Learn something new, write something new, cook something different, play scrabble. We’ll see. Keep you posted.
As of yesterday, Boris tells us to keep away from people and bang goes a lifetime of enjoying the company of others, not to mention the real need to see and embrace our nearest and dearest.
Of course, we have actually been ahead of Boris : we have kept away from other people and not set foot in a restaurant for over a week. And to think that when we crossed over to France just two weeks ago, Coronavirus was just something which had hit China and Italy and seemed to be of minor importance elsewhere. A week later, the significance of what one heard was inescapable. Batten your hatches!
Join the queue at the Euroshuttle terminal at Calais to come home on Sunday.
Three months of isolation is a difficult concept. We will have to reinvent ourselves, have a plan of action. Learn something new, write something new, cook something different, play scrabble. We’ll see. Keep you posted.
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