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Yesterday was quite a busy day for Dominic Cummings the former chief aide whilst he gave evidence in a seven hour hearing regarding the governments handling of the Covid 19 pandemic.
Cummings particulally took aim at Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock, depicting the chaos and failing of the government’s handling of the Covid 19 crisis, saying that the failure, incompetence at the top of government stating that Covid 19 had killed thousands that didn’t need to die.
Whilst many people had already realised that Prime Minister Johnson anti lockdown, ignored scientists advice and failed to introduce lockdowns in adequate time. This is the same prime minister that openly said that he didn’t care about people dying, saying ‘Let the bodies pile high’.
For myself and others it comes as no shock. Johnson and his ilk have no sympathy or care for working class people, even less sympathy is given to disabled and elderly people, you can see this in their policies and their attitude.
What people need to realise is that Johnson and co come from and live in a totally different world than most people. They come from a place of great privilege and they like to flaunt this whenever possible.
Their handling of the pandemic is a good example of this. for example whilst thousands of people were dying, Carrie Symonds, Johnsons girlfriend was shown to be more concerned about her dog than the pandemic and the death toll. Symonds also saw this as a perfect opportunity to try and find her friends jobs within the government.
Johnson knew exactly what he was doing though, he was warned by officials that a lockdown was needed but failed to act, taking him a further ten days to agree to a lockdown.
There was no plan for the government to use in the event of a pandemic, despite many in government believing that there was. This has undoubtedly has resulted in thousands of deaths. Ironically a plan had been created by the Labour Party which would have undoubtably helped thousands of people and would have prevented thousands of deaths.
Johnson also described Covid 19 as ‘the swine flu’ and stated that he was going to get Chris Whitty to inject him with Covid 19 live on television to prove that its nothing to be scared of.
Mark Sedwill the then Cabinet Secretary suggested that people should have Covid 19 parties like chicken pox parties, believing that herd immunity would then be reached by September. Meanwhile the government were drawing on a whiteboard asking who they can’t save with no regard for their safety nor regard for them at all.
Its very clear that the government doesn’t care and never will care. We only have to look at the way that the government treats disabled and working class people. Their policies have resulted in the deaths thousands before the pandemic and not one care has been given about this either.
It is completely normal for the government to treat people like this, we mean nothing to them. If they can’t make any use of us financially through exploitation such as their Workfare schemes, they punish people by making it extremely hard to claim benefits such as Universal Credit, ESA and PIP.
Such cruelty will continue for as long as they’re able to do so, with no effective opposition at the moment I can see such cruelty continuing for a long time to come.
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Dear readers this week’s blog is going to be rather short and I apologize for this.
The other week my daughter brought a virus home from school. This in itself wouldn’t be problematic but combine this with my long covid and respitory problems because of this it’s been a nightmare.
I was prescribed some meds which have worked to an extent but I still feel terrible. As a result it’s impacted my life dramatically this week and all that I’ve been able to do is nothing. A flat nothing except essential tasks.
I know that I should probably go back to the hospital but I’m putting it off because they’ve got much sicker people than me to deal with.
The reality is that long covid sufferers like myself are left to it with very little or no support. If you haven’t been admitted to hospital then it’s extremely hard to get someone to listen and to help you.
Unluckily I was admitted to hospital so I have been able to access some very basic tests and have been allocated a respiratory specialist that I’m still waiting to see.
I’ve tried all of the alternative remedies out there and none of them work. Some slightly ease the symptoms but the only things that really work are time, antibiotics for any infection lurking and a nebuliser on bad days.
To access any of these you either have to have access to a decent doctor and a local hospital. By decent I mean a doctor that actually recognises that long covid and related problems are an actual thing.
This sadly isn’t as easy as you might think. Often when you get covid 19 you also can get some really strange symptoms that there’s no explanation for.
My strange symptoms have been high temperature but not skyrocketing high, hallucinations in the early stages, really strange aches and pains, fatigue, breathlessness and a crappy immune system that can be set off by the slightest thing.
When the decision to have another so called lockdown not once were people with illnesses, disabilities and long covid taken into account.
The government shuts pubs, restaurants, gyms etc but they refuse to shut the schools, colleges and universities.
It’s a total misconception that children are being adequately socially distanced. The covid 19 and other viruses are running through these establishments at a high rate. This then returns home with the pupils, teachers, teaching staff and school staff and is passed onto any person living with them.
It’s extremely dangerous but so many people are failing to see this. We aren’t even an afterthought we aren’t thought of at all.
It’s also extremely frustrating to see that so many people in my area at least don’t believe that this virus exists or if it does it’s not harmful.
It’s all a conspiracy they say, wearing a mask takes away our freedom! They fail to see that wearing a mask actually does help to give them the freedom that they crave.
Then we have the news of a vaccine that’s on the way. It’s supposedly around 90% effective and it should be welcomed. But it isn’t by many.
Like anything new it’s ok to be suspicious but this vaccination has been tested adequately. I can’t however comment on any side effects but to be honest I’d give anything to feel well again.
Whilst the schools etc are still open the virus will still be spread amongst our communities. Add into this the people that refuse to wear a mask etc and so many more people are going to become ill or much worse die.
This week saw the death total for UK hit 50 thousand. Yes these people died from Covid 19 related illnesses but people still insult the dead and their families by saying that its all a lie.
It isn’t a lie, people are dying and they need to take this seriously.
I’m sorry for repeating myself again but people do need to hear this. It’s extremely important.
As for me, I’ve not been able to go out anywhere except for my local post office which isn’t far.
I struggle walking there and back, breathing isn’t easy when your mobile but it is what it is.
I wear a mask whenever I do go to the post office and I’m very strict about using anti bacterial hand creams etc.
I stay away from any crowds of people because I realize the risk of catching something else.
I’m not contagious anymore but so many people are vulnerable and we all need to look after each other.
What I do want is a proper lockdown with the full support of the government for workers and self employed people.
I want people to realise that long covid is a serious thing as is having a weakened immune system thanks to covid 19.
I want people to realise that we don’t get well overnight. It takes a long time and its a struggle to do so.
For some catching covid 19 is the only way that they’ll start to realise how awful it is.
As for the vaccine. It’s going to take quite a while for it to be rolled out to the general public. It’s being offered to vulnerable groups of people first and quiet rightly so.
Please don’t become complacent because a vaccine is on the way.
Please keep safe. I know that as a single parent it’s doubly hard to do so but it’s so important.
Continue to look out for each other, help and support each other.
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Dear readers I’m writing this blog post from my bed, I’m trying to put off the inevitable hospital visit that will have to happen if I get any worse.
I thought that I was getting better but sadly my daughter unknowingly has brought home a virus from school. The said virus is now having a good time rampaging through my body whilst making me feel dreadful.
I haven’t stopped coughing for two days now, my whole body hurts and I’m not capable of doing much. But I am trying to get better.
Covid 19 and other viruses are rife in my daughters school, children have tested positive and the school remains open.
There’s no way that any type of virus can be controlled in a school environment. It’s impossible, an endless task of trying to make the best out of a very bad situation.
I realise that all children need and deserve an education but it comes with a huge risk to other family members.
For anyone with a weakened immune system like mine and a compromised immune system regardless of the cause are being put at a huge risk of becoming ill with Covid 19 and other viruses.
It’s not a case of if we catch it, it’s more like when we will catch it.
I’m knackered, fed up and my body feels like it’s been in battle for a long time now.
I can’t stop coughing, my temperature is high again and I have to admit that I’m a tad scared.
You see I don’t know if I’ve caught covid again or if this is another evil virus piggy backing on top of my weakened immune system. I don’t want to be admitted to hospital again either. I just can’t win.
I have sent off another covid test and I should get the results soon. Sadly the tests aren’t reliable and have only a 70% rate of accuracy.
The area where I live will be being put in the level three category later today. Whilst I agree that this is needed it isn’t enough.
The government have so far offered no support to any of the businesses that will be affected by this. There’s zero real life support.
I agree that health comes before business, but people have to survive.
I also agree that the whole country should be put into an at least two week lockdown and real life working track and trace systems put in place locally to monitor the situation.
We can’t rely upon the government to devise any system that would work properly in the best interests of the public. All that they’re interested in are making their friends rich.
I also believe that schools should be shut for a short period of time and all schools should be given a deep clean to get rid of any viruses etc.
When our children return stricter measures should be put in place and more home schooling implemented temporarily.
We need to keep out teachers safe as well.
None of what I say is easy but we can’t continue like we have been doing. I’m ill because of a virus brought home from school.. Can you imagine how many people could die as a result of this?
Not one decision is going to make everyone happy but we need to control this virus. It’s the government’s lack of taking correct action is why we are in this situation now.
Please keep safe, I’ll update my blog and social media as soon as I get my results or if I have to go to hospital.
It’s been a struggle for me and thousands of other people but we need to get rid of this virus.
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Dear readers its Thursday and I’ve just returned home from the hospital. I managed to get a cancellation appointment for a CT scan for my lungs.
Anyway you can imagine my disgust when I saw this article in The Guardian.
I don’t need to tell you that the DWP and government are disgustingly selfish people that care nothing about the working classes health and wellbeing.
This was no surprise to me.
I knew that the government would try and shaft these people for having the nerve to lose their jobs. In their eyes a pandemic is no excuse for not working and is certainly not an excuse for not looking for none existent jobs.
We’ve seen this before and no matter how much we tell people that this could happen to them we were still ignored.
Their futures are looking very different from last years. No one could plan for the pandemic because we didn’t know that this was coming.
Some of us knew that this was going to happen way back in December but theres no way that we could save up just incase. We have no spare money.
No savings allowed.
The DWP and the government’s reasoning for this is because these people ‘they have savings’.
They don’t care that it takes around six weeks for a universal credit claim to be processed. By then their savings will have gone to pay their rent, mortgage and food.
They could become homeless.
It’s extremely unreasonable to believe that these people lost their jobs through any fault of their own. But still the government will punish them because its what they do best.
The DWP has forgotten that there’s a pandemic.
Hello DWP, we are in the middle of a pandemic.
There are very few jobs out there so stop putting people under pressure to find work.
Lets not forget that thousands of people, probably many of those that lost their jobs are recovering from Covid 19. They’re unable to work.
There are very few jobs to find and there’s certainly not enough to look for work for 35 hours a week.
If you refuse to do this then they’ll sanction you. It’s all about punishing innocent people.
Their aim is to bully us until we give up altogether.
Where’s the safety net?
There is hardly any safety net left to help people. It’s extremely hard to make a claim for any type of social security.
When you manage it the DWP lie and make it extremely hard to continue to do so.
Claimants are given unrealistic goals that they have to attain and are spoken to like shit.
The sad fact is that many of these newly unemployed people that have been refused help believed that the government would help them.
They didn’t realise how cruel and callous the system can be.
The DWP certainly aren’t there to help anymore.
How very dare anyone make a claim for the help that they’re entitled to.
My heart does go out to them though. They’ve been thrown very abruptly into the lions den. I hope that none of them vote for the Tories again.
There are no jobs.
I’m certain that many of these people that have been refused help thought that they could find a job. I’ve heard this thousands of times when talking to people outside the Jobcentre.
In the first few weeks people have hope for a better future but that soon wears off.
The reality that there are no jobs kicks in pretty soon. People sell or pawn their possessions and many loose their homes because they can’t afford to pay their rent or mortgage.
Don’t expect local councils to be sympathetic either. It’s all bloody wrong.
We aren’t criminals and shouldn’t be treated like this. But we are.
You are left on your own to cope and this is very scary for many that thought that the safety net would be there for them.
A foodbank reliant society.
We are quickly becoming a food bank reliant society. Most of the people that have lost their jobs will become reliant on them.
Talking from experience I know just how humiliating it is.
Some foodbanks have reintroduced the three bag limit. So people are only allowed to eat three times a year?
Thanks for that.
I’m a firm believer that anyone that needs the help from a foodbank should be able to do so freely without judgement and for as long as they need them.
More and more people are becoming reliant upon food parcels to survive and many food banks are already struggling to cope with the demand.
I do what I can to help but its only a drop in the ocean.
Support your local independent foodbank.
Fuel poverty.
Winter is on its way and thousands of people are going to be extremely cold this year. Heat or eat will be a choice that they will have to make.
Fuel poverty is very real.
No one should be forced to live in a cold house without hot water. But hey, the government doesn’t care about this either.
Having to live in the cold like this is very dangerous for both body and spirit.
Does the government realise this?
Yes they do but they don’t give it a thought. They’re resentful of us being here, alive.
The pandemic is still here.
So many organisations and supermarkets are returning back to normal. Very soon they’ll be very little support for anyone shielding or recovering from Covid 19.
It’s not as if there was a lot of help out there in the first place.
What are we supposed to do? Risk catching covid to go for appointments and to run errands?
This is exactly what we are having to do. It’s shocking.
Unemployment.
As we face more people becoming unemployed since the 1980s don’t expect the government to help.
The government are still intent on taking the extra £20 a week extra payment away from Universal Credit and Tax Credit claimants in April.
I bet they’ve got a countdown click counting down the days until so many of us are thrown into even worse poverty than we are now.
So many people are relying on this money to survive. But once again the government doesn’t give a stuff.
£20 is a lot of money to us. For the Tories it doesn’t even cover the cost of their breakfast.
They don’t want us to survive.
They don’t want the working class person to have any decent quality of life. Its even worse for people with disabilities and illnesses. They’ve been suffering for many years now.
Their actions say that they don’t care, will never care so stuff you.
What can we do?
Like I said last week we need to continue to support each other because no one else will.
A kind word can make such a big difference.
As for myself it’s been a bad long covid week for me. I haven’t been able to do much except advise people and signpost them for help.
I’m also one of those people that doesn’t qualify for any help from the government even though I badly need lt.
So many of us are struggling to get through this and your not on your own.
We can and will get through this. We need to.
Dear readers its Thursday once again and once again I’m unwell.
After my last admission to hospital I’ve now got another dose of pleurisy thanks to long covid.
I really want to be well again I hate feeling like this.
In other news fellow blogger Frank Zola has published his blog stating that the DWP have been nudging claimants into finding none existent jobs.
Read it here
If this link doesn’t work I’ll try and sort it out.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to be putting such pressure upon claimants whilst we are in the middle of a pandemic.
There’s hardly any jobs out there at the moment.
It’s also extremely worrying that many of these people will be recovering from covid 19.
Where are people going to find these none existent jobs? Zero hour contracts? Self employment?
Believe me when I say that the demand for employment is far higher than the actual jobs available.
You can also bet that the DWP will sanction people for not finding non existent work even though they claim to be using a ‘light touch’ admin at the moment.
I predict thousands more people becoming homeless in the near future.
The government isn’t offering and substantial help either. They just don’t care.
It’s extremely worrying. You’d think that the DWP would understand this but it appears that they don’t.
The demand upon food banks and outside help is going to become much higher and independent food banks and organisations are really going to struggle to survive.
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School uniforms once again.
I can guess that you’re fed up with me talking about school uniforms now but I have an update.
This morning I was interviewed by ITV about the cost of expensive school uniforms.
Having to pay for these expensive uniforms puts immense pressure upon parents and children.
All parents want the best for their children but they just can’t keep up with the ever increasing cost of school uniforms.
I’m in the fortunate position to be able to campaign against the need for these expensive school uniforms.
As I’ve said before they don’t make a child learn more, it’s just an added burden upon parents and children.
Whilst I think that it’s brilliant that charities are doing their best to support parents with school uniform costs, I want to challenge the need for them in the first place.
Charities and organisations are already under immense pressure to help people.
I prefer to end the need for expensive uniform in the first place which will in turn help the charities and organisations.
That said if you know of any charities that are helping parents with the cost of uniforms and uniform pieces please comment below. I want every parent that are struggling to get the help that they need.
I’ll have to sign off now because I feel awful but I will be back again next week.
Please keep safe and wear a mask etc when going out.
For everyone struggling, I hear you, I’m in the same position as you. We can get through this.
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Dear readers it’s Thursday yet again. I hope that you are as well as you can be and also hope that you are safe.
I’m rather annoyed with myself because it appears that the pleurisy is back. Yesterday I went for tests and hopefully I will know what antibiotic will be successful in getting rid of the damned thing.
I’m writing this in the midst of a migraine so I apologise for any spelling mistakes etc.
This week has been a particularly bad week for me. Like so many parents I’ve been worrying about my daughters return to school and buying her uniform.
Thousands of families are also worrying about this though. So many people have become unemployed as a result of the pandemic.
I also suspect that thousands of parents have been ill with Covid 19 like I have as well.
My frustration lies with the schools. They know that their pupils parents will be struggling yet they still demand that all pupils wear a school uniform.
I have no argument with the idea of school uniform though. My argument is with the extortionate cost of school uniform.
Back in the day when my older children were at secondary school I was able to purchase their uniform items quite cheaply at Asda or suchlike. I could also buy a school patch to put on the supermarket uniform.
I’m sure that many of you remember being able to do this.
Sadly it’s not the same now. Schools and uniform shops have cottoned on to the idea that there’s money to be made from this.
It was then that embroidered school logos on specific school uniform pieces bought at specific uniform shops would be accepted.
I know at my daughters school everything bar the school shirts have to have this embroidered logo on them.
I was surprised that the girls had to have a specifically embroidered skirt with a choice of two designs. The boys can wear any type of black school pants, bought from any shop and they don’t have to be embroidered either.
I see this as blatent discrimination, but the school is an academy so they do exactly what they want to do.
Anyway, what I’m trying to say is this. I believe that all schools should take into account the cost of uniform and the massive loss of employment and income due to the pandemic.
From my experience it was far easier when my daughter was in primary school. They did a uniform swap there. It’s far more difficult to do this in secondary school though.
Like I’ve already mentioned in my previous blog, I’m also worried about pupil, teacher and classroom assistant safety.
Why can’t schools return to the old way of doing things? It was less discriminatory and a whole lot cheaper.
They won’t though because there’s money to be had from this.
Personally I think that this cost is too much for many of us to bear. I can imagine that thousands of parents will be going without food, trying to patch up old uniform pieces up or taking loans out from dubious money lenders.
Thousands of parents will be trying to manage on meagre Universal Credit payments, some will be sanctioned and living on a reduced income, many will be homeless and living in temporary accommodation, many will be awaiting the decisions of their ESA and PIP medicals and appeals.
No parent or carer should have to go through this though, it’s morally wrong. An embroidered logo doesn’t enable a child to learn more or to achieve higher grades does it.
Surely our children deserve a better quality of life.
Like I said earlier I’m not against school uniforms but I am against the high cost of them.
We are living in unprecedented times, no one could have predicted the suffering caused by the pandemic.
I do know that organisations such as schools should be more understanding and they should offer cheaper uniform alternatives for pupils but they certainly aren’t rushing to do this are they.
It’s much harder to find second hand secondary school uniforms that fit than it is for primary school uniform.
Good luck to all parents and carers trying to get ready for their children ready for the return to school. Maybe one day it will become easier.
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It’s Thursday yet again, it appears to creep up on me far too quickly. I really hope that you are OK, well and safe.
This week has been a mixed bag for me, some good days mixed with some awful ones. I bet that you can relate to this.
Being poor and recovering from Covid 19 is no joke. Suffering from long covid is no joke either, especially when the highlight of the day is beans on toast when you can muster up the strength to make it.
We struggle on though. There are some fantastic Long Covid groups on Facebook and we support each other. It’s a good job that we do because not many other organisations do.
I am worried about a second wave coming in September when we have been told that we have to send our children back to school.
So many people still believe that children can’t catch Covid 19. They can and they do. Many unknowingly will be symptom free and will be at risk of passing the virus onto their loved ones.
Are our children going to be used as some type of sick experiment by the government?
My daughter attends a secondary school, her school has decided to keep lesson time to the very basics therfore her hours at school will now be from 10 until 2.40pm.
This won’t stop the spread of covid 19 though. Her school is a new school but they don’t turn the air conditioning on and many of the teachers don’t open the windows either.
Children will be stuck in this hot, sweaty environment at a very close proximity to their friends.
The school hasn’t suggested that children should wear a mask, but I’d challenge anyone to get all of the pupils to wear a mask all day. It’d be a challenge to say the least.
I am very concerned though. I don’t think that the government has thought this through, just like they didn’t put enough thought into pubs reopening.
As we’ve seen in the news lots of people have contracted Covid 19 from a visit to a pub. I’ve no doubt that it’ll be the same when our schools reopen.
I, like most parents want the best for my daughter. I want her to be able to have all of her lessons, to he educated and to do well in life.
Sadly, it looks like she doesn’t stand a chance of that the way that things are planned at the moment.
Educating children online isn’t the answer either. Thousands of families don’t have the Internet or don’t have a device to watch the online lessons on.
So what’s the solution then?
I do think that having a dedicated television channel for lessons would be beneficial. Children can often learn more visualy and some good results could come from this.
We could also learn alot from the parents of home educated children. They’ve been doing it for years, and so many home educated children go to college and university.
They rock this!
But I’m aware that I’m missing one important point.
I’m sure that my daughters school isn’t the only one that will be reducing their teaching hours and lessons.
What will the parents of these children do when they have to go to work? You can’t just leave children to their own devices, to rely on them to go to school without prompting.
I know for a fact that I wouldn’t have gone into school if my parents weren’t there to make sure that I did.
This puts parents in a very difficult situation. Childcare is expensive and not everyone has family members that they can ask to help.
People are desperately trying to hold onto their jobs if they’re lucky enough to still be employed. They can’t rely upon their employers to be sympathetic either.
What I do know is that if their children are absent from school, their school will soon be chasing them up and threatening them with legal action.
This isn’t at all fair though. Those making these decisions have absolutely no idea about what life is really like.
Then we have school uniforms to buy.
School uniforms are very expensive,
I know that I can’t afford to buy my daughter a new uniform this year. Thousands of parents will be in the same position as me.
My daughter has sensory issues so buying her school uniform is difficult at best.
To say that it’s humiliating and depressing to not being able to provide necessities for our children is an understatement.
Hopefully my daughter will never experience this when she has children.
When you’re left with no choice but to have beans on toast once a day how on earth can they demand that you buy a school uniform as well?
In my area there are no school uniform grants available which is shocking.
My daughters school, and most secondary schools send home pupils that aren’t wearing the correct uniform.
Once again discriminating against children living in poverty.
We will try but it’s not going to be easy.
So whilst it’s easy to congratulate the fact that schools are re opening on September, please consider the above.
I don’t want my daughter to catch Covid 19, I don’t want her friends to either. I also don’t want to catch it again.
I want my daughter to have a good education, but the very idea of that is seemingly impossible at the moment.
Will the government give out children time to catch up with what they’ve missed? I doubt it. Working class children aren’t high on their priority list, if at all.
Will the government give parents free access to online and in print learning materials?
Will the government push to dedicate a TV channel in the daytime for the visual education of children?
I doubt this very much.
Once again it’s left to us, as parents and carers to do the best that we can under very tough circumstances.
I do think that schools are re opening too early.
It’s easier to distance primary school age children from each other than it is a group of teenagers.
This is also going to be very tough and challenging for teachers.
Teachers in America have been advised to make a will just incase they catch covid 19 and die.
I’m certain that many teachers here in the uk will be doing the same thing.
I can’t imagine what could be worse than stuck in a hot, sweaty classroom with children for hours knowing that viruses, germs and bacteria thrive in environments like this.
How many teachers and children will become ill or worse because of the government’s decision to re open schools?
Will the government make the decision to shut the schools again if mortality rates from Covid 19 increase?
I doubt it, once that open they’ll be expected to stay open.
We have a government incapable of putting any positive plans into action. They blatently show their hatred of the working classes by the actions that they’ve taken and not taken.
The government has blood on its hands for more than one reason. They’re up to their necks in it.
It’s up to us to keep reminding them that we are important, that our life’s do matter and our children are valuable.
Don’t get me started on this idea. Covid 19 tests are very unreliable and weekly tests are just not doable. No doubt they’ll expect already hugely burdoned teachers to do this as well.
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Dear readers I hope that you are OK and well as is possible. I apologise for rambling on about my covid 19 experience but it’s been my reality for what seems like a long time now.
I had contracted bacterial pneumonia after starting with my covid symptoms and I’m now on my third lot of antibiotics because it just wasn’t shifting.
Last week I ended up having to go back to the covid clinic near me. It’s a strange place to have to go to and you have to attend by car which rules out anyone that doesn’t drive. Luckily I could ask my friend to take me.
After following all the instructions I eventually managed to see a doctor. She was very nice and she was very patient with me because I really didn’t feel well at all.
After examining me she told me that my lungs were still crackling, especially my right lung.
She prescribed some different antibiotics and they hopefully appear to be working.
Whilst the covid 19 clinic system does work its not without its faults.
To obtain an appointment at the clinics you have to phone 111 and then go through a couple of phone calls with their telephone operatives.
The first person that I spoke to wanted an ambulance to attend but luckily after speaking to a paramedic I was then directed to the covid clinic.
If you don’t have access to a telephone or you don’t have credit you can’t do this.
I then spoke to someone from the covid clinic who then informed me that they would be phoning me back with an appointment time.
They did phone me back after a hour to give me an appointment in twenty minutes time.
Luckily my friend lives nearby and could do this.
If you don’t have access to a car you can’t attend.
My recommendation if you don’t have a car to attend a covid 19 clinic would be to go to hospital if you feel really ill. Don’t mess around I wish that I had done this in the first place.
Upon attending you have to buzz in at the door. You are then answered and told to go and wait in the car for a phone call from them to go to the door to be seen.
I waited, received the phone call and was let in by a lovely nurse wearing full PPE. She asked me to put one of their masks on which I did.
I was then ushered into a room to wait for the doctor. Once she arrived she examined me and told me that my lungs were crackling, my heart was racing and my temperature as up again.
I explained to her what had happened and she told me to go and wait in the car for another phone call to discuss my treatment etc.
I then went to wait in the car and was prescribed a different course of antibiotics. She told me that if I become worse to either attend again or go to the hospital. 
Whilst this service is brilliant it’s not the easiest to access if you don’t drive. I doubt that a taxi driver would want to put themselves at risk from catching it and who can blame them.
It’s been a very long journey for me and thousands of others. Our stories are being largely ignored.
Recovering from covid 19 symptoms is extremely hard and it’s a very long journey.
I’ve been asked by lovely people if I was better after a few days of becoming ill. Of course I wasn’t but there is a distinct lack of education regarding covid 19 recovery and the complications that often occur.
Whilst everyone is saying that you must get a test these tests are very unreliable. So many people are getting false negative results.
Please don’t rely on these tests. If you have symptoms then self isolate yourself and everyone that lives with you. This is extremely important, it can save life’s.
Yesterday 324 people died as a result of contracting covid 19 and still the government is relaxing the quarantine restrictions.
The only reason that they’re doing this is to enable their friends to make money.
They worship at the feet or commerce and profit and care nothing about the risk to life.
Like my friend Keith Ordinary Guy says ‘Survival is an act of civil disobedience’.
When I say that they don’t care if we survive they really don’t. As long as some people remain for them to profit from their happy.
The irony is that alot of people that would have voted for them have died or are extremely ill.
You’d think that they’d care about this wouldn’t you.
I’ve been ill for that long that I’ve lost count of the days.
I’ve gone from a fairly active person, always out walking and doing something to being stuck at home reliant upon the kindness of friends and the delivery of a weekly food parcel.
Whilst food parcel food is keeping me going it is by no means really good for you and full of vitamins.
Maybe this is why I keep rebounding. Who knows?
I really don’t want this blog to turn into my weekly moan, but so many people are going through the same as I am.
I’ve tried to carry on and be productive. Yesterday I cut a few weeds down in the garden and today I’m exhausted.
It is what it is and I have to accept that. 
My thoughts and prayers are with everyone dying and suffering from covid 19 and their families.
Please can we all continue to talk about them, to remember their names and not forget them.
The reason why so many people are dying is because the government has totally and knowingly neglected to protect the public.
Their social distancing rules are extremely unclear and hard to follow.
Remember that they’re still practicing herd immunity by stealth in plain sight.
I can bet that you’ve all seen the queues for IKEA reopening the other day.
When I went to Asda to get my prescription dispensed I was the only person wearing a mask.
It’s sickening to see so many people gathering together like this wearing no face masks etc.
Maybe they think that they’re invincible and aren’t going to catch it.
It’s now become not of they catch it but when they catch it.
So many people are going to become very ill or die as a result of this. It worries me deeply.
Remember that the government is relaxing the rules not because its for our own good but because they want to profit from us.
Each and every person has a price over their heads and the government loves to exploit this.
Whilst the government has left a trail of death, distruction and failure behind them let us leave a trail of love, kindness and solidarity.
They can’t keep their power for forever and we must remember this.
Please keep safe, I think about you all each and every day.
Love to you all xxx.
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Dear readers I hope that you are well as you can be and I hope that you’re safe.
I thought that I was getting better but now I’ve developed a chest infection probably as a result of having covid 19 symptoms. I’m sick of struggling through this but I’m also angry, well very angry to be honest.
Why am I angry you might ask. I’m angry because the government is easing the lockdown conditions whilst giving not one ounce of clarity whilst doing so.
I’m also angry because he’s doing this whilst the mortality rates of covid 19 related deaths are rising. Indeed they’ll increase again and most likely will cause a second wave of this awful disease.
Thousands of people could die, many of them will be known to us, our friends and families.
We have a prime minister who appears to be unable to do his job properly, even turning up for work is a massive effort for him and I’m sure that he’s resentful for actually having to work.
When the Prime minister does turn up for work and attempts to give a speech he makes a complete mess of it and no one really knows what to do.
His guidance is abismal, even fellow politicians are left puzzled yet some people have had to return to work with little or no protection from catching covid 19.
The government issued a statement saying that public transport should be monitored to ensure that people adhere to the quarantine conditions. This isn’t happening though and the government doesn’t care.
The government also said that people shouldn’t use public transport but they failed to realise that many low paid workers don’t have cars because they can’t afford the upkeep.
But still the mortality rates are rising and the government doesn’t care.
Covid 19 is deadly, if you are lucky enough to survive from having it you are almost always left with the side effects that last for ages.
I can attest to this myself. I had all the symptoms of covid 19 at home. I self isolated, I thought that I was recovering well.
But I thought wrong. I had accepted that the breathlessness and tiredness would stay with me for a long while but what I didn’t count on was developing a chest infection. So I’m now once again unwell.
But I’m lucky, many people have had far worse side effects of contracting covid 19.
Pneumonia, heart problems, eye problems all sorts of health issues can develop as a result of developing covid 19.
It’s no joke but the government is guilty of not taking it seriously enough. They don’t appear to care as long as they’re OK.
Boris Johnson denied that he was pushing forward with his herd immunity plans, but here we have a prime minister easing lockdown conditions whilst the mortality rates are still rising. Any concerned prime minister certainly wouldn’t be doing this.
You see in his mind commerce comes first before the well being of the people of the UK. They regard working class people with enormous disdain and if we die it doesn’t really matter to them. The less of us the better.
Herd immunity is a very attractive option to them meanwhile in New Zealand they’ve done the exact opposite. Their prime minister actually cares about the people of New Zealand and I wish we had the same over here.
So what do we do now?
Well the best advice that I can give is to continue self isolating, if you have to go out wear a mask and use hand sanitizer etc. You can never be too careful.
Check in with friends and family, keep to the social distancing rules and keep safe.
As for me I’m much the same as I was last week. I’m taking each day as it comes but now with a chest infection I feel awful.
I’m hoping that soon I’ll be back to normal because I hate complaining about myself on here and I apologise for doing so.
I’ve been doing what I can at home but with limited health and funds I’m stuck waiting to get better.
Please keep safe everyone, I’m thinking of you all. We can get through this together supporting each other.
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