All-purpose outdoors type hoping we come to our senses and #StopBrexit. Jogger, allotmenteer, hack, Christian, and as it turns out, member of the liberal elite.
Feb 1, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
So... I arrived for carer's vaccine appointment this morning, fully in line with rules as I have a contract arranged via the council themselves. I was told the rules had changed over the weekend and anyone looking after only one person was no longer eligible.
"You're joking me, right?" I say. No, sympathetically she says she has been told this very morning (it's 0805) that the rules had changed at the weekend and I cannot have the vaccine. I'm not usually lost for words. I manage not to swear (v impressive for me).
Jan 29, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I didn't think after Brexit I could feel any more disgusted by my country. The failure to vaccinate housebound people with disabilities while 8 million other people get theirs has achieved it. In both cases the majority are happy as they perceive it to work for them. #SelfishGene
Following on from the appalling early scandal whereby hospital patients with Covid were knowingly moved to nursing homes, with catastrophic results, we now have a second scandal whereby the less vulnerable are leapfrogging the most vulnerable.
Apr 4, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@andwarn@KarenOMahony5 Having done a lot of reading of sensible articles, the answer seems to be: 1. They will offer a certain level of protection from certain aspects (eg maybe from bigger droplets but not necessarily from the finest "aerosol" transmission which is thought to be happening.
@andwarn@KarenOMahony5 2. They may be as effective at changing behaviour eg encouraging social distancing, signalling that this is to be taken seriiously. 3. They have to be worn "intelligently" ie don't fiddle with them, don't touch the outsides afterwards, don't assume they give you magic immunity.
Jan 12, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Am in tears. Neighbours have tried to call the police over a "suspicious black chap" with a white woman at a property in the village. This was me and my partner, leaving our home, putting the neighbour's bin away, before going for a run. F***ing racism f***ing Brexit.
Just for the record. Black men are residents, neighbours and fellow citizens, yes even in villages. It is not a crime to leave your home to go for a run. Nor to put your neighbour's bin away, as he does every week. These are not crimes. I've never been so angry or upset.
