I don’t suppose you do, why would you? But it was quite a significant day. In a Berkshire hospital a woman’s death was recognised as covid related. She was the first. I gather from the snippets of news that leak through to me that we are approaching 110,000 now.
And from a newspaper headline I saw we are going to quarantine people in hotels when they arrive from abroad. Surely a year to late. Stable doors and bolting horses come to mind.
Also leaking through from change.org came the news that some people wanted a state funeral for Captain Tom. I saw him interviewed several times on tv and my opinion that he was a humble man was never diminished. I have to ask myself if he saw his garden trek as worthy of such recognition. If it was, why are we not holding state funerals for all the carers and NHS staff who have died in the line of duty.
They could have walked away from their jobs and be alive today, but they didn’t because they cared about their patients and the rest of us. Every day nurses and doctors took the chance that their ppe was enough to protect them. How will their sacrifice and bravery be recognised? Probably not in a pay rise.