Covid’s back. Ok, it never went away, in any form of reality, however depressing that may be. Worse still ITS NEVVVEEERRRRR going away. So any ‘going away’ is purely an act of attitude, of consciousness, of… delusion. Which is, really, what I’m best at. Which is why I can say with assurance: “I’m over it!!!” Completely. Its done. It is an ex-virus (in my mind) and I’m on to the next one. Which is a rather pesky cold. Which looks like Covid, sounds like covid, is viewed by all my fellow tube-travellers as covid but, according to the lateral flow tests I take every (fucking) day, it is emphatically NOT covid.

Though new cases are still at 40,000 a day in England. That’s 1.2 million a week. Which is odd, when life appears so ‘back to normal’. Yet hospitalisations and ‘deaths’ remain quite low. There are many theories as to why this is so. Because the whole purpose of vaccinations is to stop the spread. And we’re all vaccinated, but its still spreading. Ok, the vaccines protect us from symptoms of a death-like nature, but really, they’re supposed to stop us getting it altogether, so we can’t share it.

Yet in many parts of Northern Europe, it is indeed back. With a vengeance. Austria is locking down properly (remember lockdowns, he says with something approaching nostalgia, ahhhh) much to the displeasure of the vast masses of Austrians who are opposed. Germany has introduced new measures. The Belgians are revolting and as for the Dutch!! Holy shit there’s been riots in Rotterdam, anger in Amsterdam, havoc in the Hague… ya get the idea. Basically because uptake rates of vaccinations are relatively low across that whole ‘low countries and other Germans’ area, they’re enjoying their 4th wave. Possibly 3rd. Maybe 5th. Who gives a shit, a wave’s a wave.

I’m vaccinated. So many times. Against so many things. And here’s what that’s taught me:

Vaccinations are not part of a global capitalist conspiracy
Vaccinations are not a way of culling the population, arguably the opposite.
Vaccinations don’t make you sterile, impotent, dyslexic, autistic, misogynistic or impressionistic.
Though NOT having a vaccination DOES make you a dipstick.

Lesson over. Happy Wednesday

A xxxx