28th August 2022

I feel as if we’re living in a dystopian world, a society bereft of reason. More and more threats of doom from the media.  When, two years ago,  news of the virus broke, governments everywhere went crazy.  National leaders, flanked by senior scientific officers, were pictured nightly on our screens, fingers pointed - Lord-Kitchener-like - at the gullible public:  “You MUST stay home!”. But, how can you hide from an invisible virus?  And surely the virus would still be there when we poked our quivering noses outside the door?  Police everywhere were marshalled to arrest all who disobeyed. In France, everyone had to carry a document at all times, justifying why they’d had the temerity to venture out. We MUST get vaccinated every 3 months for ever more. OH has just received 6 sheets of hospital pre-op papers,  five of which detail stringent rules about Covid; hardly anything about his actual op. And now a different mayhem. No-one, on pain of death, can use a hosepipe, despite the rain now falling unceasingly, and soon we’ll have no fuel at all! And workers are all on strike demanding more money - not for what they ‘do’ but for what they ‘need’. Come back George Orwell. All is forgiven.