Waiting for the wave

Clouds and sunshine again to day but still not so warm. Good walking weather anyway. I took a turn in cooking lunch today. Clare had fish but I had chicken, and succeeded in cooking a separate sauce for each of us starting with shared cooked ingredients. It meant lots of washing up afterwards but we were both pleased with the result.

Meanwhile in the world beyond the home, restrictions are being lifted to allow more shops to re-open, and workers encouraged to return to their city workplaces to help revive the small business economy that orbits around the big corporate office blocks. Many seem to be in no rush to do this as they have found working from home a positive experience which they'd be happy to continue. This includes Owain. The DVLA office where he works normally is still closed, but not for much longer as Civil Service agencies are being urged to open again soon.  

The trouble is, anxiety is increasing over the possibility of a second spike in infection rates in the autumn if not sooner. People are reluctant to use public transport to get to work. I wonder if that's reflected in the increase of traffic to and from town this past week during working hours? At the same time, we're seeing the imposition of local mobility and business restrictions where the infection rate has gone against the general trend. The USA leads the world in terms of the number of infections and deaths, and the infection rate there is not yet under control. The 'land of the free' is paying the price for inadequate leadership and dangerous ignorance. 

Tragic that a 30 year old man died having contracted covid-19 after attending a party hosted by an infected man for people foolish enough to believe the pandemic is a hoax, fake news. How often Trump uses those terms to dismiss any news or information he can't or won't accept. A Mexican epidemiologist, reflecting on the increasingly rapid spread of the pandemic in third world countries, was less of threat to the world as a whole than the chaotic response to the pandemic in the States.

In the evening I watched a couple of episodes of Swedish crimmie 'Stockholm Requiem'. I sets out to show the impact which dealing with violent evil crimes has on the police working on them, so we get to see inside the lives of several time members. Not sure yet whether this is going to work.