Too late with lockdown as more lives are lost
WE know that our buffoonish PM Bojo Johnson, is incompetent as his latest flipflopping decision to lockdown the country shows.
He must have been the only person in the country who didn’t see that the only way out of the mess that he had got us into was to close down the country. Still better late than never I suppose.
Yet while he wobbles and dithers, lives are lost and the NHS gets ever closer to collapse.
If you or I continually repeat the same mistakes we could lose our jobs.
He is a man way out of his depth!
When will we see him for what he is?
No place like home
I have lived in Huddersfield all my life (69 years) and wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
We’ve got a fantastic university and amazing colleges.
I agree that more could be done with regards the shops and less charity and pound shops and more upmarket shops needed. Need to lower the costs of leases/ground rents to attract more businesses.
We have two beautiful parks Greenhead and Beaumont park.
Huddersfield has got some beautiful countryside, fantastic walks, Huddersfield narrow canal and historic sites.
There are rough areas and crime but isn’t this the same in most towns and cities?
All I can say if people are not happy living here go and live somewhere else.
People should be proud of where they live.
What’s in a name?
WHEN my daughter was about four years old, she started going to a Sunday school which she really enjoyed, especially at the time it was coming up to Christmas.
She was wrapped up in the stories about the manger and the birth of Christ.
We had just bought a kitten and told Tracey that she could give it a name.
She was adamant that it should be called Jesus, my husband was also adamant that he would not go to the door at night to call in a cat with that name.
She decided on Mary, we then explained that there’s a special list of names for cats.
After much deliberation she decided on Fluff, we couldn’t praise her enough for being so clever to choose such a brilliant name.
Aren’t children wonderful, and aren’t some parents big fibbers?
Wrong way round
THE lockdown demonstrators, the party goers, students holding lockdown parties and so on. Where are they now?
The statistics tell me that a good percentage of them have indeed been affected by the Covid virus in one way or another.
This is not a time to judge their stupidity, but to reflect on it and learn a very hard lesson as we all strive towards some kind of normality in the future.
Thankfully the vaccine is being rolled out and the light is at the end of the tunnel.
However, I can’t help but feel that the government has made a big mistake in the vaccine priority roll-down.
In my opinion the vaccine should be administered in the opposite direction to the government’s proposals.
In other words from young to old. This would allow the economy to start a faster recovery and also stop the spread of the virus reaching the most vulnerable in society, until they themselves get immunised.
Of course priority should go to all workers within the NHS and rightly so for obvious reasons.
Schools, teachers and pupils/ students could return to some kind of normality a lot sooner than the current situation if the vaccine was available sooner rather than later.
I am a 64 year old foster carer. I simply do not think it makes sense that anyone of my age and older should receive the vaccine before people who are much younger, and more importantly, are pivotal to businesses and building and strengthening the future for the good of all.
Alan Walker