Does it know it’s Christmas?

So Boris Johnson has reminded everyone: “The virus doesn’t know it’s Christmas.”

You don’t say Boris, you don’t say...

If the virus is not going to suspend its spread for the winter season, with flu on the way: why are we suddenly allowed bubbling of three households of any number?

Are you perhaps suggesting that not allowing households to mix was a mistake?

Is someone whining they can’t see their extended friends and family at Christmas?

Is this the number of households your mates want to bring together?

We’ve gone through Eid with this virus, we’ve been through Diwali, we’re coming up to Hannakkah, but the virus rules are only being suspended for Christmas.

The lockdown is plaguing everyone at the moment, not just the Christian faith, perhaps you think Christians are extra specially stupid.

Silly Christian, viruses don’t believe in Jesus.

Tough new restrictions to hit London

London is entering “a short” tier two lockdown.

This means bars and restaurants for larger groups will be severely restricted, as households can’t mix in them.

Journeys should be reduced and indoor exercising is only allowed if household mixing can be avoided.

Single person households can bubble.

Schools, universities and places of worship can stay open.

So we can learn and we can pray, but we can’t socialise.

This really should be short, we don’t all pray.

However, Liverpool and Scotland have been enduring restrictions worse than this for longer.

Restrictions come into place tonight at midnight.

Sombre Times

The Guardian has reported that one-third of British professional musicians are considering giving up their careers because of the pandemic.

This information was based on a survey of 2,000 members of the Musicians Union.

The pandemic has been a crippling time for the arts, with many musicians forced to work for free to sustain a profile online as live venues are still closed.

This is not the most tragic news from a pandemic that has caused misery and economic fears for many.

However, it is still deeply saddening.

Surviving in the arts has always been tough, many musicians struggle in good times despite their talent.

Music lightens the load in many people's lives, so losing musicians to supermarket work - as the Guardian reports - is bad for a cross section of society in the end.

We are lucky in Britain to have such a diversity of music on offer, but with the pandemic we can no longer even support venues.

Policing Fun

The new regulation for gatherings have been further restricted to six.

This smacks of hypocrisy.

You can be surrounded by up to 40 people in a cafe or bar, where you spend money.

However, you can not gather that many people together for a birthday party, though they make exceptions for weddings and funerals.

Cases are going up.

However, we are still sending people back to schools and universities with restrictions.

These are admittedly more essential, but fun is important too.

This comment has been revised for accuracy.

Avoiding people

So now we wear face masks in shops, on buses, on trains and in beauty parlours. 

But we’re not wearing them all the time and so social distancing is still necessary.

So when you walk past someone in the street you have to swerve to avoid them.

This feels so unnatural and anti-social.

When is it going to stop?

How long do we have to act like everyone’s got the lurgy?

Don’t get me wrong, this virus is best avoided.

But acting like I’m wary of everyone is getting upsetting.

Businessman spit

Keep your spit to yourself people, there's a virus going round.

This lunch time while walking down the high road I saw a man spit on the pavement.

The man was dressed in a business suit and jeans with, get this, a surgical mask round his chin.

He was with two other men with no mask, but as he effectively wasn't wearing his I see them as silly as each other.

There is a virus going round, you have a mask and you spit...

I've seen spitting before in pandemic times, but this has got to be the silliest.

Be careful, there are some silly people out there. 

A thought for waiting staff

While it will become compulsory for you to wear a mask in shops, waiting and bar staff aren’t so lucky.

Even though they will be easily coming into contact with comparable numbers in their working lives wearing a mask for them will be optional.

If you are attending these establishments please make sure you are without Covid 19 symptoms and you register with anything they have set up.

Britain really needs track and trace.

Successful Lent

You remember before all this Covid 19 madness started I said I was going to observe Lent.

Well I have kept to it.

No fizzy drinks have passed my lips since Shrove Tuesday and I’m nearly there.

Question is will I go back to my old ways quickly after Easter after I’ve done so well.

Probably, but it’s been a good fast, now I have to put up with social distancing for the foreseeable future.

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready.

Nile Wilson Body Bible for free

Nile Wilson is a legend.

Not only is he a bronze medal Olympiad, but he’s lovely.

Recently he has been promoting his fitness regime the Body Bible, but he doesn’t want to make huge profits on the back of Covid 19, so he’s giving it away for free.

That’s right folks, train with an Olympian for free.

And hope the Olympics is only postponed, so we can see him perform again.