Robber Barons in Hospital

I'd like to make an appeal for a group of people who have been left behind in the support packages already announced for companies, employed people, the self-employed and those on zero hours contracts. I speak, of course, about that much-maligned and marginalised group - burglars.

Now that everyone is self-isolating or working from home, the poor burglars can no longer effect a break-and-entry into empty houses - they simple aren't ever empty and thus they don't have any work. Yes, they could target business premises, but they're far more protected with alarms than the simple household. Please spare a thought for them in their time of hardship...

Given that situations like this always have the potential to descend into civil unrest, I'm thinking of popping down to the Duke of Beaufort's place in Badminton and suggesting he create a local militia force - The Duke of Beaufort's Own Light Horse, or Beaufort's Marauders. There is, of course, the Prince of Wales, just outside Tetbury - he could raise The Prince of Wales' Rough Riders. We should all be looking to local warlords to protect us now, as we did in the distant past. It's about time the aristos started earning their keep...

Following on from the death yesterday of Eddie Large, who caught Covid while in hospital for a heart condition, a close friend of ours had a friend who also contracted Covid while in hospital for a totally unrelated injury and subsequently died. It would seem that hospitals, quite inevitably and sadly, are now the hubs for Covid, as they once were for MRSA, and you're best keeping yourself healthy so as to avoid them like the plague, if you'll forgive the expression. With hundreds of Covid infected patients, it must be almost impossible not to get infected and it's no wonder NHS staff are dropping like flies. We joined the NHS clapping once more last night.

Talking of the Coronavirus, each media outlet is using its own graphic of the virus. How the hell can I be expected to leave the house and recognise a genuine virus when the graphical representations are so varied? Some look like a WWII naval mine and others look like a bloody football. It's like giving WWII RAF pilots a Bourne and Hollingsworth department store catalogue and maintaining it's an enemy aircraft recognition chart..