Tag: lockdown
COVID Diary: The Beginning of the End?
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With COVID cases, deaths, and hospital admissions down and falling every day in the UK, lockdown measures being relaxed, and vaccine appointments booked, is this really the beginning of the end? Today felt like a big day. It’s been a couple of weeks since my age group qualified for the vaccine, but a local centre…
10 Positives of COVID and Lockdown
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For far too many, the past year of COVID and lockdowns has been the most heartbreaking in living memory. For that, I am truly sorry. Nevertheless, there have been some positives which we shouldn’t forget about. 1. Lockdowns have had a positive impact on emissions and air-quality. Before COVID, there were grave concerns over the…
COVID Diary: Christmas Chaos
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2020’s been a chance to wind down in a lot of ways, but with Christmas now just around the corner, things look to be hitting fever pitch again. With the infection rate coming down and the vaccine on its way I was hopeful for 2021….. Until the UK Government decided to allow everyone to spend…
In Our Hands (For all those we’ve lost)
Here’s my new song: In Our Hands, with it’s accompanying video. Written, produced, and performed by Adam Harkus. In Our Hands was written almost nine months ago now, right at the start of the first lockdown when I was still in shock and basically living in fear over the COVID pandemic. Around that time I’d…
COVID Diary: Failure of Government
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How UK Government policy and Boris Johnson, in particular, have mishandled the COVID epidemic. Failure of Government 1. Death Rate As I write this, COVID has claimed 52,745 lives in the United Kingdom, which’s the highest in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world behind only the USA, Brazil, India, and Mexico. At least two…
COVID Diary: Perspective
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How to biggest threat to public health in 100 years has put things into perspective. Remember the news pre-2020, pre-COVID? The beast from the east, flooding, Brexit, plastic bags, politics. In other words, we never had it so good. We didn’t really have any problems. Every day, it seemed, was a slow news day. Those…
COVID Diary: The dangers of wearing a mask
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I never thought I’d say this, but after yesterday it’s my view that the wearing of masks could be doing us more harm than good. Here’s why… First of all, a disclaimer, I’m not one of the flat-earth brigade that denies the COVID risks or the impact it’s having. I get it. It’s real and…
COVID Diary: Stop Living in Fear
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The mood in the UK at the moment is changing. We’ve gone from strictly adhering to full lock-downs, to actively ignoring much lighter restrictions. Here’s a friend’s take on the COVID situation which I don’t necessarily agree with, but I think expresses genuine concerns that families in similar situations would empathise with. Said this from…
COVID Diary: Reasons to be Optimistic
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As we approach the end of 2020, I can’t help but feel optimistic about the COVID situation in the New Year. We’re about to go through the peak, right? For me, there are many reasons to be optimistic about the current situation. Take the quadruple whammy of Halloween, Guy Fawkes, Our 6-year-old son’s birthday, and…