Coronavirus Comes to Town

Oh well it had to happen sooner or later… Coronavirus is here.

The only surprise is that it didn’t come from the local secondary school: which during half term had trips to Italy (skiing) and to Spain.

But rather than dwell on that, and the utterly irresponsible…. no… no…. #bekind….

This story caught my eye in the local paper...

But what is this…

Wait… what?

No, it really does say she went on holiday to Hong Kong…. maybe she got too caught up watching Love Island to bother with the news of plague in China… and then having potentially become infected came back…

The article doesn’t say when this woman, and her four kids, went on this jaunt (or indeed how long she was there): only that she had the test last Wednesday.

And there is this…

But don’t worry because Boris Johnson was in Colindale today to see how the spiffing containment plans are going. He is clearly a bit worried, because he brushed his hair (in an effort to look responsible).

For those interested in those plans, you might like to read the statement by the local school, in relation to the said skiing trip, which was issued in response to a woman who rang a national radio station to express her concern at the lack of information….

Now we don’t need to get into facts, like the virus spreads asymptomatically, has an incubation period of between 3 and 14 days (and longer in extreme cases)… you know basic public health information… but it is relevant that the day after this statement was issued the government changed the criteria to include the area of northern Italy in which the half-term jolly had occurred. Therefore placing everyone on that trip inside the area, and still within the incubation period….

And funnily enough, the woman who it was revealed today as being infected, was also in Italy, at roughly same time…. it doesn’t say where… but if you cross your fingers, say ‘la,la,la’, then everything is fine…

So no, it will not be a shock if by midweek the UK goes the way of France.

But then neither will it be a shock if the local MP, Robbie Moore, is caught taking yet another selfie as locals battle for the last Dinkie Pie in Booths…

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