Maybe itâs about time these bold, and credible-sounding, warnings surfaced in the real world? I await actual data or see-it-with-my-own-eyes evidence.
Based on the usual pattern, this yearâs wave of Freshers Flu is about to break. Apparently 90% of our students declared they had been vaccinated but even that short clause probably needs heavy qualification. Iâm sure the same is true of staff though I have the basic decency not to ask such things. Iâm still video conferencing with people from the office across the corridor, some of the time, while wandering around in an open plan room with seven or eight folks at other times, the Nursing Service offered me a blue paper talisman when I went to check an item of equipment, first hint in many weeks of anyone particularly giving a toss.
Death toll so far is relatively low, just like always, though I attended a âbench unveilingâ for a late colleague a few days back. (During lockdown, one of those deaths of despairâŚ)
⌠the rumours of a nasty cold going around are bound to kick off soon and I gather the same newspapers that shriek about twenty inches of snow on the way RIGHT NOW are already seeding this narrative.
Letâs watch and wait.
Reminds me of a glorious blooper committed by a woman presenter on âMidlands Todayâ ânewsâ one time:
The previous day, the young male weather presenter had said there was a forecast for eight inches of snow, which duly failed to appear. The woman introduced the next weather report by saying: âAnd by the way, Steve, what happened to that eight inches you promised me last night?â The best bit was immediately afterwards, when she realised what sheâd just said, and grabbed her mouth in comic dismay; what time the weatherman fell about⌠
PS: And most of the studio, cameramen and all, by the look and sound of it.