During our daily walk we have to cross the main road twice.
Not so long ago we could wander across and see no approaching vehicles in
either direction. Now we have to wait for a gap in the traffic and nip across.
Traffic isn’t back to normal but there has been an obvious and significant increase. Lorries,
vans and private cars - people are beginning to move on.
This is merely an additional sniffing the air kind of
observation, but Mrs H and I think the coronavirus debacle has entered a phase
where it has become politically expedient to big up the lethal nature of the
virus to save face by keeping the current police state strategy going.
Not that bigging it up hasn’t been the case from the beginning, but
now the aroma of strategic exaggeration becomes stronger on an almost daily
basis. There isn’t much to add to that because it is merely speculation
distilled from weeks of intense propaganda, but the tone of the narrative does
appear to have changed.
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I have noticed that the BBC like to present dramatic accounts of surviving the virus, or people losing relatives, or undergoing some articulately tough aspect of the lockdown. The implication is that sickness, death and hardship have only just arrived here in the UK, and present a collective challenge. Obviously, something drastic needs to be done to restore us to the trouble-free life we used to have here.
And yes, there's definitely more traffic about. Possibly more pantomime backing away and glaring over improvised facemasks to demonstrate virtue in social interaction, but plenty of evidence of normal stuff like blokes transporting furniture and whole families on their way to somewhere.
The motorways near me seem a bit busier than they were a couple of weeks ago, but still well down on normal.
Definitely an increase in traffic, as others have said not a surge but you notice the difference, we also live next to a playing field/community center, the center is closed and so is the car park so apart from dog walkers very little has been seen on there, but today whilst in the garden a few family groups have appeared for the first time, going to be interesting how the government play this from now on.
I had a blood test this morning, like getting into a speak easy, ring bell, 'colleague' appears with mask, gives mask to me, I await and am them escorted to clinic where the nurse is kitted out as though she was receiving in a baseball game, but even she said the hospitals have got to get back to treating other patients soon or the back log will be impossible.
We haven't noticed an increase in traffic, mainly because we just don't see them as the morons are now belting away down the road like Stirling Moss, which they will be if they carry on like that for much longer...
A great local chum, together with a group of us, has told the Kent Crime Commissioner to get his finger out and actually do something about all this...
Sorry, forgot to say to Sam, that the BBC are no longer able to be trusted with any news these days, their autocue-readers are just told what to say, which is usually boring, wrong and biased against most true British principles!
Sam - yes it's a pity about the BBC and its addiction to drama. Accounts of people undergoing some articulately tough aspect of the lockdown are standard BBC fare and have been for decades. It's what the tabloids do and always faintly surprising that the BBC plays the same game.
Mark - our main roads are down on normal but much busier than they were. Saw our first bus with a reasonable number of passengers today.
Wiggia - yes the hospitals have got to get back to treating other patients. From an A&E insider we hear that A&E has gone fairly quiet.
Scrobs - whenever we go to see a play I often think that there must be hundreds or even thousands of actors who could do those autocue-reader jobs at a fraction of the money dished out by the BBC. Probably do it better too.
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