I am the only passenger on the bus.
Drivers are still ignoring instruction to turn off engine open door, when sat waiting at a bus stop ahead of scheduled.
Last week there appeared to be more people on the streets. Today noticeable more people on the streets.
I learnt from Curtis in Sincil Street that reopened last week, that their shop in Baigate never closed and next week they will be reopening in the High Street.
Three passengers on return bus
Only one passenger on the bus into Lincoln.
The message is still not getting through to drivers, when ahead of schedule and waiting at a bus stop, turn off the engine, and if a warm day, open the door.
Streets deserted, though there did appear to be more people about.
Pleased to see Curtis in Sincil Street has reopened.
Return bus, three passengers.
An hour later then previous outings venturing out into lockdown world catching the now hourly lockdown bus service. Earlier it was cold damp and raining. Cooler than previous days, though not cold as yesterday.
I am the one and only passenger.
Why are drivers when ahead of schedule and waiting at bus stops, failing to turn off the engine? No excuse, as have been told to by Stagecoach and sent reminders. Adding to pollution, damaging lungs, increasing covid-19 deaths.
My only reason for being in Lincoln, visit farmers market (third Saturday of the month). No farmers market. Why oh why do these people not learn how to use social media? It is for posting of timely information.
Promotion of Lincoln by Visit Lincoln during height of covid-19 pandemic the height of crass stupidity. Even when lockdown eased, there should be no promotion. Visitors carry disease. It is tourism that has spread covid-19 around the world. Visit Lincoln trying to justify their existence, and as always, failing miserably.
My visit not entirely wasted. Redhill Farm Shop in Bailgate open.
On return, only one passenger on the bus.
I won’t be booking a summer holiday at this point. Let’s put it that way. — Grant Shapps Transport Sec
Airlines trashed the planet then spread covid-19 around the world.
It cannot be return to normal as normal was not normal.
We have peace and quiet, can hear birdsong, low levels of pollution, traffic-free streets.
Greece which is in lockdown, has explicitly barred tourists from UK.
UK is in lockdown for a further three weeks.
UK is headed to be worst effected country in Europe thanks to failure to act sooner.
FCO advice, no foreign travel indefinite.
Insurance companies have pulled travel insurance, those that still offer, have excluded codid-19 cover and I daresay hiked the price.
When people have experienced lockdown, social distancing, they are going to think twice to pass through a busy airport, sit on a crowded plane.
A Qantas flight to Brisbane on Monday in middle of covi-19 pandemic, passengers packed in like sardines, illustrates why no one will be flying anytime soon.
EasyJet grounded indefinitely, forecast to run out of money by August, is it their idea of a joke, we will leave the middle seat in a row empty?
If assume Airbus A320, would have to have one person on a row of three seats, no one in the row in front or behind, no one in the row aisle opposite. If assume 100 euros flight Gatwick to Larnaca, would have to charge 900 euros. And this is not even 2 metres separation, nor does it take account of breathing in the same air for over four hours.
In China, one passenger on a bus infected nine fellow passengers.
On landing, aircraft would have to be thoroughly cleaned, not a quick turnaround and tidy by the crew.
At airport, temperature screening, facilities to isolate and quarantine.
Cabin crew on an American airline and BA have tested positive for covid-19. Two Border Force offices at Heathrow have died. Fifteen employees of Transport for London have died.
What is sickening, easyJet are still promoting international travel. An e-mail today entitled Imagine yourself in the Canary Islands.
Tax dodging conman Richard Branson who is demanding a taxpayer funded £500 million bailout is flying near empty planes across the Atlantic.
But if not fly, a cruse ship?
Cruise ships are floating environmental disasters, floating plague ships, flights to and from start and end of a cruise.
Cruise ships are floating all-inclusive hotels, a disaster where ever they dock.
Venice is being destroyed by cruse ships.
Athens when a cruise ship docks, streets are clogged by passengers, streets clogged and polluted by tour buses, and no money flows into the local economy.
Those who think we are nearing the end, we are not, we are at the beginning of coronavirus pandemic.
The Black Death ravaged Europe for two hundred years. Venice lost a third of its population and never recovered.
We have no vaccine, there may be no vaccine.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, much to the chagrin of the tourist industry, has warned there will be no summer holiday this year, do not book a summer holiday.
Thursday 16 April, coronavirus lockdown day twenty four.
I was the only passenger on the bus.
Working from home has become something of a joke. Gardening leave would be more apt. As I pass through villages, I see people out walking, cycling, working in their gardens.
Lincoln deserted, no traffic.
I do not usually wish to visit Wilkinson’s, today maybe pick up runner beans to sow. A queue. I did not bother.
M&S need to get their act together. They have created a corridor through their store through to the Food Hall at the rear. This now blocked with displays, forcing people close together as walk through.
Only two passengers on return bus.
—- to be continued —-
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure of mutiny, money and murder, brought to life on stage and filmed live at London’s National Theatre.
It’s a dark and stormy night. The stars are out. Jim, the inn-keeper’s granddaughter, opens the door to a terrifying stranger. At the old sailor’s feet sits a huge sea-chest, full of secrets. Jim invites him in – and her dangerous voyage begins.
to be continued …..
National Theatre production of Jane Ayre.
Live streamed last week, only a few hours left, as only retained for a week.
A very avant garde production, nigh impossible to follow, not helped the cast keep morphing into different characters, leaving one with glimpse of what is happening.
Excellent music.
A very powerful and moving production.
This week Treasure Island followed by Twelfth Night next week.
Hard to believe long long time ago I read Jane Ayre, humanities faculty English literature, university first year.
It beggars belief greedy grasping tax-dodging billionaire conman Richard Branson has his hand out for £500 million bailout of his ailing Virgin airline.
Taxpayers should not give him a penny.
£500 million is only from British taxpayer, Branson is also seeking £700 million from the Australian government to bailout Virgin Australia.
Recently he shifted a billion dollars from American Virgin Islands to British Virgin Islands.
A couple of years ago Branson sued NHS for millions. How many lives has that cost, how many ventilators for patients, protective equipment for front-line staff?
His running of the East Coast Mainline was a disaster. The rail franchise has now reverted back to public ownership, much to the relief of train crew and passengers.
In his call for a bailout Branson is backed by Airbus, which makes the planes, and Rolls-Royce, which makes the jet engines for the planes. He is also backed by Manchester Airport and Heathow Airport which wish to see a return to businesses as usual.
No bailout for airlines, no return to businesses as usual. We should not bailout out industries which are trashing the planet, which delivered covid-19 around the world.
Bailout people not airlines, bailout local indie businesses not global corporations, then fund a Green New Deal. Any bailout should be of strategic sectors by acquiring a controlling stake.
The rottenness is at two levels, rottenness of billionaires who think the role of the taxpayer to bail them out, whilst calling for the strivers to return to work and make them more money, and the rottenness of the travel industry who think they can return to businesses as usual trashing the planet with the the help of the taxpayer.
Rich football clubs owned by billionaires, have laid off their workers, expected the taxpayer to pay 80% of salaries of the lowest paid, whilst overpaid footballers remain on full salary sitting on their arse doing nothing.
Philip Greed expects the taxpayer to bail out his ailing Arcadia group.
Mike Ashley tried to open Sports Direct during lockdown claiming it was an essential business.
Tim Martin forced sick workers into work at J D Wetherspoon by refusing to pay sick pay, encouraged drunks to go drinking at pubs, then when pubs forced to close, told his workers to go find another job and refused to pay suppliers (many of whom are small craft breweries).
Vulture capitalist owners of Waterstone’s forced their workers into work, refused to implement social distancing, refused to allow workers to wear face masks or gloves.
We face two global crisis, global pandemics spread by airlines and cruise ships and climate emergency.
We were told could not reach zero carbon by 2035, impossible, unrealistic within the time scale. We have shut down polluting industries overnight, we have seen what is possible, we hear bird song not traffic noise, our skies are free of aircraft, our streets traffic free, our cities pollution free. We cannot return to businesses as usual.
Covid-19 has jolted us into another now, a different trajectory. We have a glimpse of what is possible, what could be. We must now create and maintain another now, our future and that of the planet depends upon it.
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