We got in on the mass testing programme, and all got coronavirus tested this morning. We've had no info from the school, and we thought the schools were supposed to be disseminating this info about the mass testing programme. So we followed the details that had been sent out by a friends school. You apply for a coronavirus test 1, new slots seem to be opened up each day, and choose the "I'm part of the testing programme option". We went to the pop-up testing centre this morning, it's just up the road. It's quite a cool building, you can see it is really just a trailer but it expands out both sides like some sort of transforming robot. Inside it doesn't seem to be run by medical staff, I hope it was legit. No-one is doing the tests, they are just giving you the home testing kit and collecting them again, so I don't think I'd do this again. Might as well get a kit sent in the post. Clare had to do one of the boys tests and I did the other, then we did our own. Very unpleasant poking the little stick down your throat, very hard work, I gagged and gagged, thought I was going to be sick. The boys did slightly better than I did. We should get the results in forty-eight hours.
Despite all our best efforts it sounds like Kent is going into the new tier four today. It's basically lockdown again but they don't want to call it that.
We got our new car this morning too, that should have been the headline news I suppose. It is very nice, a Hyundai I20. It has all sorts of fancy features including parking camera, it uses our phones to provide on screen info like sat nav and that. It has cameras in it and gives little warnings if you stray out of your lane (I seemingly do this a lot) or go over the speed limit. We must remember to put petrol in it and not diesel.
Now to sell the Peugeot, how is that going to be affected if I am in lockdown again? I got it cleaned this morning, so it's looking good.
Popular day for gig anniversaries, though no pleasingly round numbers. The Prodigy gig I went to with Clare where I met her brothers for the first time was this day in 1997. This day in 1992 was the Extreme concert where Andy, Dave, Al and I stood head and shoulders above the rest of the young crowd, and this day in 1991 saw Neds Atomic Dustbin in Portsmouth.
On Portsmouth, good and lucky result yesterday sees them go top of league one.
I think our coronavirus death numbers might top 100,000 by the end of the year if it's really going crazy like they say. I see we have slipped behind Italy, we must try harder.
| Country | cases | deaths |
|---|---|---|
| USA | 17633673 | 318051 |
| Brazil | 7111527 | 184876 |
| India | 9977834 | 144829 |
| Mexico | 1277499 | 115769 |
| Italy | 1903786 | 67220 |
| UK | 1948660 | 66052 |
| France | 2427316 | 59855 |
| Iran | 1138530 | 53095 |
| Russia | 2762668 | 49151 |
| Spain | 1805633 | 48777 |
Coronavirus weekly death graph for USA + Brazil + India + Mexico + Italy + UK
⬅️ Health stats 19/12/20 :: The game that failed to win the hack day ➡️
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