Darling hugs of May.... Jesus Wept. That has to be the WORSE EVER headline I’ve seen on a newspaper front page.
This beats all the annoying Covid phrases and gimmicky stories of nurses dancing let alone families/couples recording “lockdown songs”, let alone all past headlines. It beats it on being so frickin’ AWFUL and total utter cringe.
Based on a TV show nobody cares about anymore, were too young to remember or simply forgotten, so they won’t get the reference either.
Still, that’s Metro for you. They say the best things in life are free, but that’s a lie when you realise that newspaper is also free. I cannot believe that people think that headline is clever, it isn’t and a certain red top did the same sentence in March last year. At least that red top are confident about June 21st, unlike the scaremongering “i”, who always get it wrong and you need to read beyond their scary banner headlines to understand why.
If they (all media) come up with another “Super Saturday” media slogan being the first day of the weekend of the week when the pubs reopen indoors, I’ll scream.
If they are not giving our mental health a thrashing by quoting scientists who get their predictions all wrong (Ferguson for one), they are writing stupid gimicky “uplifting morale booting” stories such as a man building a train station in his back garden during lockdown, an awards ceremony taking place on Zoom, Getty Images stock photos of a bunch of people clinking pints together in a pub, photos of clapfests being held on a hospital helipad, a photo of someone walking past a boarded up shop wearing a facemask (“Lockdown 3” pizza restaurant I’m also angrily looking at you), or coming up overnight with annoying phrases/banner headline slogans, like everything else I’ve mentioned to drive us up and down the wall.
I’ll leave you with the figures and three fun things to do during lockdown.
1. Cooking banana bread or pasta
2. Watch a film
3. Make a billionaire fat cat richer by buying everything on Amazon. Then read in the papers or online how all this has made him richer, only to realise that he has no intent to spend his ill gotten gains on so-called “Big Pharma” to help struggling countries.
Anyways, here are the latest figures at the end of last week and the week so far.
As for this “Indian variant” rubbish, they’ll spend weeks scaring us about it, only for the usual “The vaccines are effective” line to roll out. When the “Kentish” one started, we had no vaccines and with this one we do. In Bolton where this is hitting worse, it’s more a Casedemic over there; very little are admitted to hospital and nobody has died of it in a very long time. The majority catching it are young people who have yet to be vaccinated.
Anyhow, watch sales of curries go down the pan, just like Chinese food and Corona Beer. Utterly childish behaviour from people who possess the brains of frogs.
Weekly deaths
8-14 March:- 1,015
15-21 March:- 640 (65, 110, 141, 94, 101, 96, 33)
22-28 March:- 437 (17, 112, 98, 63, 70, 58, 19)
29 March-4 April:- 245 (23, 56, 43, 51, 52, 10, 10)
5 April-11 April:- 251 (26, 20, 45, 53, 60, 40, 7)
12 April-18 April:- 183 (13, 23, 38, 30, 34, 35, 10)
19 April-25 April- 160 (4, 33, 22, 18, 40, 32, 11)
26 April-2 May- 110 (6, 17, 29, 22, 15, 7, 14)
3 May-9 May- 67 (1, 4, 27, 13, 15, 5, 2)
10 May-16 May (4*, 20, 11, 11, ?, ?).
At this same stage, we are one death higher than the same stage last week (After Thursday’s figures are included, so we are doing well especially since 67 is very hard to beat).
*All were in Wales reported after a weekend lag; Wales no longer reports at weekends. All other devolved nations reported 0 deaths.
