Not looking great right now. But a national lockdown is better than a slow frog boil, which was what we were looking at.
These things though have a habit of extending. And losing the run up to Christmas probably kills every retailer you know, in every sector, in every industry. Every restaurant. Staff potentially furloughed on 66% of salary - not enough to make ends meet at a time when it is harder to make ends meet and October 31st is the end of the moratorium on domestic tenant evictions.
Again, one cannot help but feel that this is a reaction to the prospect of London heading into Tier 3 in two weeks. No doubt more information tomorrow, in the pages of the Tory Press because why the fuck does anyone in local government need to know these things in advance when you can brief them via what they read on their twitter feed.
US daily death total is 1000. They are five times our population. Our daily death total is 280. Per capita ours is worse.
Everyone in the US knows whose fault it is. But in the UK we still blame each other.
Currently the number one strain in the UK is the Spanish one, brought back by holidaymakers who were assured that the air corridor was safe until it wasn't.
Our government pout in air corridors to protect the package tour industry. If it seemed at the time like a stupid idea, it was. But hey - better than paying those firms to furlough, right?
I refuse to blame you for your choices. Faced with losing your job, losing your house, losing your family, losing a relative, losing your business - humans were not designed to process these big questions and mitigate these large risks.
That's why mental illness is running at twice the usual rate. And when you check into the usual rate, you'll be shocked it is so high.
If you don't have to make hard choices, if you can ride it out and work from home, count yourself lucky. Because the next six months are going to be almost impossibly tough for some of us, both physically and mentally.