Another Day….

Hi everyone, hope you’ve had a nice, restful weekend. The days are getting longer, there’s occasional sighting of a bright yellow ball in the sky and wretched Plan B restrictions are gone, hurrah, huzzah! Now people can exercise their own choice, hopefully without harrassment. If they feel safer wearing a mask, go for it. If they don’t want to wear a mask, have at it. It’s nice being treated as an adult once again.

As for the Boris must go shenanigans, that soon melted away. One minute it was ‘Sue Gray is bringing her report in HOURS and the govt must respond AT ONCE’. As soon as Boris uttered the magical, ‘No, I won’t resign’, it was game over. The last thing the nation needs is to put some other lunatic in place to turn everything upside down and lead us into yet another lockdown. And no, I cannot see any circumstance in which I would ever vote for Boris, but 2 days away from restrictions being lifted, he’s going nowhere. Now we’re being told the report might be weeks, months, years, and will not mention the words lockdown or party, but apart from that it’ll be totally transparent and comprehensive. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh.

Meanwhile in Clownworld, NZ has instituted 24-day isolation for anyone who so much as has contact with someone who is covid-positive. Why so hasty? Why not 7 months, or even better, 4 years. If they haven’t died by then, they’re probably negative. But do a lateral flow test just to be sure. Number of Omicron cases at the time: 84. I’ve tried to find the data for Omicron deaths worldwide and it’s like searching for gold, even on the WHO website. All I can find is that there are omicron-related deaths in the UK, which is a bit vague – did they die from Omicron, or from faling out of a tree and testing positive for Omicron? Your guess is as good as mine. The lower the number of deaths from any cause, the better, that’s what I say. The sooner hospitals start booking in patients en masse for long-ovedue treatment, the better.

Apropos which, another bold prediction- the NHS mandate will be cancelled. Two reasons- 1) It’s illegal to mandate treatment that is undergoing clinical trials, and in the UK at least, the vaccines are being used under emergency approval. Even in the USA where the FDA licensed the Pfizer vaccine, the Supreme Court overruled the mandate,

and 2) the Coronavirus Act which allows for the mandate automatically lapses on March 25th. The deadline for the second vaccine is April 1st. The NHS cannot mandate the vaccine for any new employee from March 26th onward so what’s the point? However, the law allowing the mandate was passed on 6th Jan this year but the government can look forward to spending the next few years in court, arguing about whether the law holds when the Act allowing it has lapsed. Not to mention 100,000 whistleblowers who have nothing to lose. Strap in boys and girls, it could get interesting.

Won’t it be nice to stop wrangling and fighting one another, to stop the finger-pointing and anxiety and anger? I’m sure you’re all as exhausted as I am. But this is AlaraApothecary: we cheer you up. The freebies going out to all who purchased from us in 2021 are going out from this week. Thank you very much for your custom. If you haven’t received yours by end of Feb, feel free to send us a heavily censorious, condemnatory email with the purchase details. Have a fabulous, healthy week and I leave you with some old-world eye candy. Who doesn’t like an arch or two, plus a dome here and there? Exactly, no one.