Hay decided to go out foraging for supplies yesterday at Morisson's, where she discovered that, while all the frozen foods were ravaged, there was plenty of raw meat and vegetables and she had no problem bringing home a veritable cornucopia of foodstuffs. It's almost as if everyone has forgotten how to cook a meal from scratch. There again, shoppers may just be obtaining frozen foods because they keep longer in the freezer and they can reduce the number of trips to the shops.
I do keep wondering how many of those who are dying from Covid would have died anyway from seasonal flu, which does take a heavy toll among those who are in the 'at risk' cohort. Following a bit of digging, I discovered that Public Health England estimates that the yearly deaths from flu vary widely, from a high of 28,330 in 2014/15 to a low of 1,692 in 2018/19. Compare that with Professor Neil Ferguson's worst case scenario, on the basis of current efforts to stem the epidemic, of 20,000 deaths. I reiterate that this is based on current containment strategies. From this, it would seem that the mortality is forecast to compare to a bad seasonal flu year and that the containment efforts equate, very roughly, to the availability of a vaccine.
With all the hand sanitising I'm doing, the skin on my hands is starting to look like parchment; however, there has been one benefit - for a number of months I've been suffering from dents in a couple of my nails that originate from some kind of infection in the quick. I was meaning to visit the doctor to see if I could be prescribed an ointment to cure it, but just didn't get round to it. The hand sanitising seems to have cured the problem and the dents are now moving down the nail, with normal, healthy growth now coming from the quick.
Must have been either a fungal or bacterial infection that the alcohol sanitiser has killed.
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