CORNAVIRUS WEEK 33: HAIRDRESSERS STILL ABLE TO OPERATE BUT FOR HOW LONG?!

Another week with rising numbers of people getting coronavirus.  I suppose it has a lot to do with the fact that there is a Track and Trace system in place.   Apparently we are at the same level as when Lockdown was imposed back in March. However with no Track and Trace at that time it makes me think there were actually a lot more cases. (In March the level was taken to be the number admitted to hospital, and eventually, those in care homes.)  This would be yet  another example of  a type of 'science' where it is only expressing that which is measured. Or put it another way: if it is not measured, then it doesn't exist.

An interesting point relating to the history of epidemiology: there have been some very good studies, for example, James Lind's demonstration in 1747 that a diet which included citrus fruit prevented and cured survey; Ignaz Semmelweis's evidence in 1845 that cleanliness prevented puerperal fever and John Snow in 1854 identified that the local water supply (in Soho, London) was the source of cholera infection (known as the Broad Street Pump study - below).

Back to life's simple pleasures:

Autumn colours - our garden this week

The grandchildren, at lease 2 of the 4 of them: Harriet and Ellie in the park.  Apparently there is a case of Covid in the secondary school that Ish and Alastair attend, but it is not in their year. The affected child had a university student sibling and that particular class has to self-isolate. I guess this is how things are going to be now.

I got my hair cut this week. Having had to wait 6 months to be able to get my hair cut earlier this year I made sure I wasn't going to risk the same thing happening again.  

Then we managed to get out a bit this week... to have coffee, socially distanced, of course, with friends.

These photos were taken in Drymen, in the village square.  Iain is in the second photo.

Restaurants are closed but some tea-rooms are open. However I am now seeing shops boarded up (possibly temporarily?) and  For Sale signs on property.   

At the end of October:  Government furlough payments stop in 2 weeks' time.

The clocks go back so we will be heading into shorter days and longer nights ... alas darker days in more ways than one.