Numbers

 Been google - ing again, this time on the great Boris Johnson Party

Saga. Seems there are now seven documented Downing Street boozy

work events, and possibly more to come. OOOOOh!

The March 20, 2020 garden party got me thinking. Didn't Mr Johnson get

Covid himself in March. As I recalled, he had shown great bravado in carrying

on with public engagements in the days up to his symptoms. Turns out that

he started isolating one week after the party, and ended up in hospital

- and eventually on a respirator - one week after that. So how did the other

party goers fare!?

To be fair, our understanding of Covid was murky in those early days. Particularly

on the concept of 'getting it'. By now I would guess the virus is everywhere and we 

are all dealing with it all the time; the test picks up when we become capable of infecting

others from the virus we reproduce ourselves. 

But still, March 20 was also the date the British government closed all schools in 

England.

So what was going on there: hanging on to normalcy, accepting the inevitable, going

down with the ship in style?? A bit of all that, I would think. The really bad numbers had yet

to come; but come they did.