Blog2020 ≫ If it sounds too good to be true, then it's probably fine

That's what they say isn't it? Everyone being offered 80% of their pay from the government and not having to do any work for it, that all sounds fine doesn't it?

I went to Sainsburys today, for us, and for Jim, and so picked up a "is anyone going out" message from our neighbourhood whatsapp group too. I took something to the post office for a neighbour and the post office was crazy quiet. I went into Cheriton, past all the closed shops, and the big spaced out queue outside the Co-op. There was a small queue outside the post office too, but it was for the pharmacy half of the business. I breezed right into post office, no queue, never seen this before.

They were queueing right round the carpark to get into Sainsburys. We were queueing. Waited about half an hour to get in, as they were only letting a few in at a time. Inside it wasn't so bad, only a few things missing from the shelves. How did we get to this state though? It is still insane. The most insane thing is how quickly this is becoming normal.

Did a big group conference call with friends last night, like going to the pub but all in our own homes. As we live in five different towns across two countries we don't actually go to the pub very often anyway, so the old coronavirus has improved our lives a little here. Hoping to make it a regular feature of Thursday nights from now on.

Boris Johnson has coronavirus, Brighthouse is closing, and Sports Direct and Wetherspoons are facing huge backlashes.

UK climbs to number eight in the total coronavirus cases chart1:

Country casees deaths recovered
USA 93151 1382 2421
China 81340 3292 74588
Italy 80589 8215 10361
Spain 64059 4934 9357
Germany 49344 304 5673
Iran 32332 2378 11133
France 29155 1696 4948
UK 14543 759 135
Switzerland 12311 207 897
South Korea 9332 139 4528

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Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in A small town, Kent. Married to Clare + father to two, I am a full stack web developr, and I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages ect ect. I like pubs, running, eating, home-automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.