I was hoping that I would get to stay longer as it was on a road where people drove fast past it, which meant that I just needed to ensure that it could survive one battle. But alas, the long stay abroad for that Pokémon has ended.
Yes, Labour should be more ahead in the polls, but they are doing better than they did in the last election under Jeremy Corbyn. And the Conservatives would love someone like Jeremy Corbyn to be in charge of Labour, which is why so many joined Labour to vote for Corbyn, some voting three times!
There is an argument that Keir Starmer should be more vocal about his opposition to Conservative policies, but I think that he is right in being cautious about opposition for oppositions sake. In PMQ's, the Prime Minister has repeatedly misrepresented his past positions in matters and these, in the build up to an election will gain the Conservatives votes. When Keir Starmer has made mistakes about past positions, the media rightly hold him to scrutiny on this, but much of the media ignore the way Boris Johnson lies, or "inadvertently" misrepresents the truth on many occasions in PMQ's.
For just £3 you can help destroy the Labour Party... vote Corbyn #ToriesForCorbyn
— Michael Green (@ToryForBritain) June 15, 2015
The bottom line is that Labour is better in the polls than they would be under Jeremy Corbyn. As to if this will be enough in the next general election, only time will tell.
I was talking to someone about COVID-19 vaccination this week. They had side effects of fatigue since they were vaccinated and were advising people not to be vaccinated.
Needless today, I got quite emotional about this. Vaccines save lives. Vaccination against COVID has helped to reduce rates of COVID-19 after the two weeks it takes to start to offer protection. Telling someone not to be vaccinated against, what is in effect, the plague is not only increasing the risk of death and disability to the person not vaccinated, but also carries a risk that they will go on to infect others.
Yes, this vaccine has side effects. My arm still aches on occasion from where I had my vaccine late last year. My wife felt unwell for a day and took to bed but has no issues at all now. But COVID-19, if it does not kill, has longer lasting side effects which are more frequent, hence the new disease of Long COVID.
We do not know how effective the current vaccines are to be against other variants, but we do know that the current vaccines offer protection to original strain of COVID-19 as well as the UK variant that is present in our great nation. And yes, the vaccine is not 100% effective, I have already spoken to people who have caught COVID despite being vaccinated, catching it after the two weeks it takes to become effective. But the outcome data for at least one of the vaccines is a reduction in those going to hospital rather than preventing all infections.
We are not protected, until we are all protected, both by remembering hands, face, space, as well the need for as many people as possible to be vaccinated.
I know that this is a bit late to blog about this, but I have to mention this. Meghan Markle has been discussed in the media again thanks to the way that Prince Harry and her have split from the Royal Family.
There are two sides to every story, and we are never going to know the truth about what has happened to result in the couple taking their son and leaving for the USA. What I do know though is that too many in our media have treated them appallingly. Fortunately, there are some who are willing to speak up for the truth and discuss the double standards that exist as well as how some of the views that people have about the couple have no rational justification.
However, almost all would agree that the inappropriate and unwanted body contact that occurred in this episode is wrong. I am sure that there are a few morons who will disagree. Watching this with my daughter a few years ago allowed me to broach the topic of how some men will wrongly view attire as permission giving. We agree that women should not be subject to harassment and since then, she has been more aware of what she has worn, though we agreed that some men will find any excuse to assault women.
I do not know who he will identify with in this series. Myself, I now am one of the parents, but as a child, looking at the first series, I would have been a much less cool mix of Clay Jensen and Tyler Down. In fact, I would not have featured in it due to be being such a socially inept nerd.
He was upset that we were not going onto watch the next episode, but it was time for bed.
Just a reminder, COVID-19 exists. It has killed loads. I have treated patients during the Swine Flu pandemic as well as other bad years of influenza, and this is worse. I help care for a nursing home which was devastated when COVID managed to get in. Many died quickly and thanks to planning, peacefully. However, the surgery I work in has had many patients admitted to hospital. None who we have sent in have affected by the shortness of breath that this condition causes compares this to influenza as those patients have already had to ring 999 to get there.
Our local hospital now has less people affected by COVID-19 in it. The children's ward at one time had adult patients on it and there was a time that emergency operations were not being carried out, instead the only operations taking place being life or death ones. When people talk about the death rates of COVID and compare it to influenza, they forget that for many, death does not come quickly. Patients who die, and those who survive, often are given help to breathe. This can be oxygen, CPAP, or ventilation, and the amount of people requiring this has overwhelmed the NHS in our area. Such support can require stays in hospital of weeks, again, something that was not seen on such a large scale in any of the years that Flu has caused strain to the NHS.
But onto the claims of this tweeter, stating that vaccinations are causing side effects that are being covered up. They are wrong. There is no way of knowing for certain if there are going to be long term consequences of the vaccine, but we do know that there are long term consequences from surviving COVID infections. People spreading scare stories about vaccinations that can save lives when we know that there are both short and long term consequences of COVID are, to put it politely, silly.
Yesterday, I surprised my wife. It is our anniversary weekend (we started to go out together may years ago) and she had wanted something special. She actually wanted a themed night much like last weekend, but instead I tried to surprise her by getting afternoon tea.
Sadly, I had left it too late to sort this out. I had postponed this on Wednesday when after working at the vaccination hub, I fell as asleep on getting home and had to sort out a flat tyre. On Thursday, I found that I had left things too late, but after searching the internet, I found an afternoon tea delivery service.
Sadly, when it came, it was not up to the standards of last weekend. It was still nice, but nothing as spectacular that my wife had arranged. My wife did get a surprise present though which she loved later in the day.
As for the children, my son appears to be content playing on the Nintendo Switch and talking to his friends. My daughter had a socially distanced walk with a friend of hers. I had met her mother working at the vaccination hub and I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed to say anything to the friend due to fears of embarrassing her!
