Containing COVID-19
millions are being wrongly put back into lockdown
because mass testing gives too many false results
The entire effort to contain the coronavirus is a massive waste of time and money. The greatest impact of all these efforts has been to destroy the global economy, take away our civil liberties, and to hand unimaginable powers to politicians and unelected officials. Here, the government is even talking about putting the army on the streets of England to enforce lockdown ~ that will end social cohesion for a generation.
- Closing borders does not work. Australia had some of the strictest entry rules for visitors and returning Australians, and yet the coronavirus is allegedly rampant in that country. You cannot stop aircraft from landing with mail and essential imports, you cannot stop ships docking with essential imports and to load exports, and there are always some people who are exempt from the entry restrictions. (Doctors, Politicians, and Unelected Officials.)
- The money spent on mass testing has been thrown away. Here in England the mass testing centres were mostly ignored by the public, there are far too many incorrect results, either producing false positives or false negatives, and people can catch the virus from the testers themselves. Testing offers no benefit to the person being tested.
- Recently President Trump stated categorically that lockdown doesn’t work, (at least not when it comes to containing the coronavirus). A study in New York confirmed that the infection rate was just about the same for those in lockdown as for those still walking the streets and travelling on the subway.
- The vast millions spent on ‘track and trace’ have been wasted. Here, one fifth of potentially infected people are never traced, one in four of those traced could not be contacted, and there are no numbers to say how many of those reached actually went into self-isolation ~ not very many I suspect. Most of the staff in the test and trace centres have so little to do that they play games and surf the web on their official computers all day.
- Scientific studies from the Netherlands state that face coverings are worse than useless. Face coverings may be beneficial for short periods indoors where there is a risk of close contact with people you do not normally meet.
- It takes decades to even partially contain a virus; the common cold, ebola, epstein barr, flu, HIV/AIDS, rabies, smallpox, West Nile Virus….. are all still out there. Vaccines have serious side effects.
- Vaccines have limited effect. Millions are vaccinated against the flu, but you have to get a vaccine every year because the virus mutates, and you can still get sick from flu viruses that you weren’t vaccinated against.
If you want to know what a real pandemic looks like, as opposed to the coronavirus hysteria, then read about the influenza epidemic of 1918 ~ especially how it affected the USA. Everything that is being tried now to contain COVID-19, was tried back then, and none of it worked worth a damn.
Some say the people in white coats will save us all, all those under 50 years old anyway. And that the mad scientists should take over the world. All I know is that any ‘expert’ who says there is a way to contain a virus once it is in the general population is either a charlatan or a liar.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
bar your doors and become a hermit
you will get lots of peace and quiet
you can still get the coronavirus
Looking Better after Lockdown
it could have been worse, the liquor stores might have been closed
Now that I’m regularly out and about again after a period of government imposed solitary confinement at home, I’ve noticed just how manky some people are looking. It’s not their fault, being subject to lockdown and being made to work from home does bad things to your health, your looks, and your well-being. It’s a lack of sunshine, fresh air, exercise ~ and too much junk food, processed food, comfort eating, too much booze, too many cigarettes, and for some too much reliance on drugs. Add to that the lack of proper sleep, irregular hours, lazing around most of the day in sweats or night-attire, not being able to get to a hairdresser…..
Face it after a period of lockdown, and while we are working at home, it’s possible that we don’t feel or look at our very best. I know I didn’t, and I know just how much weight I put on.
It’s pretty simple to get back to looking and feeling great;
- Get out in the sunshine and fresh air as much as you can.
- Get some exercise. Walk the 10,000 steps a day. Learn some yoga. Use free exercises such as squats, push ups. Look here’s a link to a 20 minute home workout video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKfNUOWuZV8
- Stop drinking so much every day and every night. Have two or three totally booze-free days every week.
- Stop smoking all together, forever. Smoking makes you look old, you stink, it ruins your health. Smoking will kill you.
- Stop comfort eating. Don’t eat just because you’re bored, stressed, lonely, or sad.
- Stop eating processed food, or eat much less processed food if you can’t get to a good store as often as you’d like.
- Stop shoveling your food in with both hands, eat mindfully and slowly, chew your food properly.
- Eat more fresh fruit and vegetables. Salads are brilliant at this time of year.
- Drink more cool, clear, cleansing water. (Fruit juice counts too.)
I am back on a health and fitness programme again, after letting myself go during lockdown. It’s so depressing being in solitary confinement that I found it hard to keep up good habits. But you know what? It doesn’t take more than a week or so to turn things around to a better life.
Some say that just one bottle of wine won’t hurt. And, that potato chips go so well with wine. All I know is that the dictum of a healthy mind in a healthy body is the real truth.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
yoga is bloody good for you
Home Alone
for many, the greatest fear is abandonment
I am pretty certain that over the past couple of months there have been more people living mostly at home, alone and isolated, than ever before. All of the reasons for people being abandoned at home and alone are related to the COVID-19 virus. At best they could be working from home, and / or suffering lockdown, quarantine, self isolation. Many will have lost their jobs, or in the UK have been furloughed, or been unable to work at their business because of the lockdown. There may be more tragic reasons such as a severe illness or death.
Whatever the reason, being at home alone and isolated from physical social contact, is bad. It will make people very sick; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. People suffering solitary confinement, (and effectively having to be at home alone is solitary confinement), become depressed and distressed. They will suffer insomnia, either be unable to eat or eat far too much, they may drink too much, use drugs too much, and feel so exhausted they can’t or don’t want to do anything. People in that state stop looking after themselves, don’t wash, shower, shave, clean their teeth, or get properly dressed ~ maybe they wear the same dirty stuff day after day. They may have thoughts of hurting themselves or others, they might go out and kill someone, loot stores, set fire to cars…..
Being at home alone and isolated touches the greatest fear most people have ~ that of abandonment. It’s a deep childhood fear, an abandoned child will quickly and certainly die, and our innermost psyche remembers that visceral fear.
There are some solutions, but none of them are easy, particularly for someone who has already suffered serious physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual decline.
What we need to do is;
- Go outside. And I don’t give a flying fuck what the rules and guidelines and official advice says, we all need to get outside into the fresh air and natural daylight.
- Get some exercise. And I don’t care how bad you feel. You’ve got to walk, do yoga, find an exercise routine on YouTube…. but do something to get your muscles and blood moving.
- Have strict routine. Get up at the same reasonable time every fucking day, get clean and dressed, have breakfast, do something positive or your job maybe, have lunch at the same fucking time every day, do something positive then prepare dinner. Go to bed at the same time every night.
- Eat healthily, don’t drink, smoke, or indulge your other nasty habits too much. Take good nutritional supplements. Especially vitamins B, C and D, along with iron, magnesium, zinc, and a good fish oil.
- Stay away from depressing news, and keep well away from social media. Instead reach out to your family and friends. Telephone, Skype, email, chat, write a fucking blog….. But don’t be alone, even if you can’t be together.
Some say that lockdown and social distancing are there to keep us safe. And that they can start living again when all these restrictions are lifted. All I know is that life is not a dress rehearsal, this is it, make the most of it.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
refuse to be a prisoner
Monochrome Monday ~ Your Dystopian Future
it was a bright sunny day in June, the clocks were striking thirteen
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
some will not survive the dystopian society
Lockdown Discredited
you shouId always trust a man, just as far as you must
Two months, 63 days lost, for nothing.
Took my usual walk by the sea today, utterly in contravention of the laws, rules, and guidelines surrounding the lockdown for the supposed COVID-19 crisis.
There were the usual amount of cyclists, dog walkers, joggers, and people out and about enjoying the warm May sunshine. There is no sign whatsoever that self-isolation, lockdown, quarantine means anything here any more. Hardly surprising considering that nobody in or close to government believes in it anyway.
Nobody here trusts the prime minister, government, health officials, nor the BBC. Not since Nazi Germany has such a shit load of lies and propaganda been shovelled onto a people as the British government trying to feed us now.
And nobody believes any of it.
Boris Johnson’s career is over.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Finished, discredited, a footnote in history
ruined world
now is the long dark midnight of your soul’s despair
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and after lockdown
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it was so quiet in the ruins
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walking through this old town
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the dogs bark but no children play
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every child is kept safely locked away
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no bright shining voices to be heard today
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and the freedom to walk
has been taken away
Monochrome Monday ~ It’s So Quiet In the Ruins
and when the lockdown was over, the world lay in ruins
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
and all the colours had been stolen
I Need Help
nobody can be right all the time
It takes a lot for me to admit that I just don’t know ~ honestly saying to someone that I don’t have all the answers is difficult for me. Appearing to be less than perfectly in control is an uncomfortable feeling and it takes a lot of guts for me to go there. Admitting that I’m out of my depth, that I’m at a loss, that I haven’t got a clue what to do next, seems to me to show weakness. In the hard-knock schools I was brought up in, to show weakness was to invite ridicule, persecution, bullying. Even in my most senior roles in business, to be weak meant that you went to the wall.
To ask someone else for help, and genuinely mean that I needed help, has never been something that came easily to me. In all of my life I guess the only people I have ever asked for help have been doctors and….. nope, that’s it, doctors.
Well, now I need help, and the only thing I can think of to do is to pray, and sincerely mean my prayers. It’s day 42 of lockdown, and because I was sick before March 23rd this is actually the 48th day I have been in quarantine / self-isolation. I am emotionally and spiritually bereft. I have a serious mental / emotional / relationship problem to deal with, and I’ve got nothing. The well is fucking empty. And me, the guy who can do anything, hasn’t got a clue what to do.
It’s like I’ve been driving in a great car, along a good straight road, through cool countryside by the ocean ~ and suddenly I’m standing there in the desert. Alone. And it’s hot, harsh, brutal, empty, and silent.
Where do I go from here?
I don’t have a clue.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
some deserts are pretty
right now mine is just brutal
Lockdown Love
the long dark lonely hours of passionate thoughts
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he thought he saw a female shadow in the courtyard
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he thought he heard footsteps outside his cell
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he thought he saw the door-latch move
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he thought he heard the hinges creak
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he saw the door slowly opening
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
bound and tied
she was as much a prisoner as he
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