Swallowing Lies

The great British nation adopted a lie,

I don't know why we adopted a lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

The great British nation, we followed a twat,

Well, fancy that? We followed a twat.

We followed the twat who told us the lie,

I don't know why we adopted the lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

The great British nation, we believed in a bus,

I don't know why; that's not like us.

We believed in the bus that was owned by the twat,

I don't know why the fuck we did that.

We followed the twat who told us the lie,

I don't know why we adopted the lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

The great British nation, we wanted blue passes,

I don't know when we became such arses.

We wanted blue passes because of the bus,

It's too bloody late now to kick up a fuss.

We believed in the bus that was owned by the twat,

I don't know why the fuck we did that.

We followed the twat who told us the lie,

I don't know why we adopted the lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

The great British nation, we yearned to be free,

To throw off the shackles of EU tyranny.

We needed our freedom to manage the virus,

Which helped us ignore the way they betrayed us.

The freedom we won bought us shiney new passes,

Please explain once again how we became such arses.

We wanted blue passes because of the bus,

It's too bloody late now to kick up a fuss.

We believed in the bus that was owned by the twat,

I don't know why the fuck we did that.

We followed the twat who told us the lie,

I don't know why we adopted the lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

The great British public, we salute Freedom Day!

That's the day that the virus can really make hay.

We needed the virus to kill off the old,

The sick, the frail and the stupidly bold.

This plague island nation now stands on its own,

An outcast the civilised world must disown.

The freedom we won to get shiny new passports,

Hasn't helped much in the way of getting food transports.

We wanted blue passes because of the bus,

Maybe the bus will feed all of us?

We believed in the bus that was owned by the twat,

I don't know why the fuck we did that.

We followed the twat who told us the lie,

I don't know why we adopted the lie,

Perhaps we'll die.

One hundred and fifty thousand lives gambled to date,

While the government stokes up the fires of hate.

One hundred and fifty thousand lives, and they show no remorse.

They're dead, of course.

(Andy Steven)

Medalling

 From the Graun

Vaccine Efficacy

 Basic, but helpful, I think

App

 

If You Can Keep Your Job...

 

A View from King's

I'm sure the great majority of the many followers of The Trees require no convincing. But in some ways this was more telling than all the national stats and figures.

I was at King's Colllege Hospital last Thursday for a scheduled appointment, and got chatting to one of the respiratory consultants there. He told me that most of the inpatients currently in hospital with Covid were unvaccinated.

They were either:

- Too young to have been able to get a vaccine until recently, or

- Were older, and could have been vaccinated, but for some reason hadn't had it.

Further, cross infection within the hospital dropped massively once the hospital staff had had both doses.

For him, all this demonstrated that the vaccines were a good thing.

At the same time, it was also clear that the outpatients he saw from essentially middle-class or more educated backgrounds were almost all eager for the jab, for themselves and for their familires. Those who showed most hesitancy and doubt were often economically poorer or otherwise deprived, and also, often, from ethnic minority groups.

He was spending something like twice the expected lenght of time in clinic when seeing patients from the second group, simply to try and get over the importance of getting the vaccine.

An uphill struggle, albeit worthwhile.

Masks

Perhaps a little obvious...

 

Spying on my movements...?

 My FitBit first thing this morning...

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Garden from above

 

Testing

 

Another Mistake

 As wearing a face-covering is chiefly about helping to protect others from Covid, to make it a matter of 'personal choice' is a particularly callous proposal, even for this particularly callous Government.

Football

 "In taking the knee against racism and injustice, the England football team embraced one of the basic principles of Marxism – solidarity. Their 2-0 victory over Germany (Report, 29 June) suggests they have now progressed further and understand that success in the struggle is not about heroic individuals but the collective action of the team. If Gareth Southgate can address remaining contradictions in the side, this could be their year."

Keith Flett

Tottenham, London

(Guardian 1/7/21)

Refugees