What an awful year 2020 has been and i don't think we're out of the woods yet as over Christmas I think people will mix in households and we'll see a 3rd spike even though the 2nd hasn't reached its peak yet.
I think I've dressed about 8 times in 2020 the last time on Wednesday last week and that's me done for 2020 hoping for a better opportunity to unwind as "Davina" in 2021
Really disappointing with the people of Wales that we've done so well and then went to the top of the covid positive charts and now it seems worse than ever here at around 700/100k infection rate which i expect to be 1000/100000 which can only mean ignorance and complacency and a belief in the conspiracy that this isn't as bad as people make out.
I have friends and colleagues who have had covid and they've said you don't want it you live in fear as you start to find your having difficulty breathing that you may have to go to hospital (especially those with kids wondering who will look after them if you have to go into hospital) and weeks later still suffering with fatigue and breathing and months later.. and yet some say it doesn't affect us we're young and others criticise government.
I've also had 2 that I know of who are no longer with us one a fit 35 year old.
I too will criticise government but not for the lockdowns as they are for our own good and when i say our own good i don't mean mine and my family as we're abiding by the rules held in captivity by those who aren't abiding by the rules. They're simple rules and if we all follow them for a period of time we drive the virus down by denying it hosts to keep spreading. I guess we have a lot of selfish ignorant people in Britain but i wont go further with that into politics.
Everyone here stay safe, I hope like me you're avoiding chances of covid, working from home where you can, making sure your family is safe and also following the rules to avoid contact with others and hope you have a good and safe Christmas and lets hope for a better 2021.
Davina
Horrible year glad to see the back of it. Worked from home both of us and its been so repetitive.
Kept to ourselves in our own bubble and need things to change in 2021.
Rebecca (wife)
We have become too polarised.
Katie x
I do t know what's happened to Britain over the last decade especially. We as a Nation of little Britainers somehow think we can look down on other nations based on some silly notion we're still Great Britain and an Empire. I despair in Wales that it would seem thousands of people have flouted simple social distancing rules and have spread the virus. 2021 can't come soon enough and a vaccine. The world needs to learn from this.
I bumped into an old friend at football in September. He'd had covid and had been in hospital on oxygen for 5 days. He's the same age as me and relatively fit and healthy. He thought he may have caught it skiing in March. Worst was his Dad caught covid around the same time - he wasn't sure if he'd given it to his dad or not - and he died. Imagine thinking that you may have given covid to one of your parents and killed them.
It makes me so angry that people are os selfish about this whole thing. The British public by and large can be trusted to obey the rules but there is always a minority who don't think they apply.
I still think that Govt has lurched from mistake to mistake in trying to tackle this virus. We have made errors, as have many countries, but those used to dealing with these sorts of viruses (SARS) have coped a lot better (Far East). Sometime I think it is British exceptionalism that prevents us from learning and taking advice. It seems to be all those 'best in the world' countries (USA) who have been decimated through the arrogance of their leaders.
God I hope 2021 is better.
Katie x
We've lost friends to this awful virus i hate hearing the 97% survival rate thats great for someone whos lost someone in that 3% to hear.
So many people breaking the rules 2020 is marked down as the worst year ever for me.
Firends who have had this have been rough ones been into hospital and glad to say back out but not in a good way still.
I hope 2021 is a better year but can't see it and now europe has locked us in
Hannah (wife)