Gone Viral 2021

 What's happening in Blighty? 19 Feb 21.

Everyone feels locked in. The pubs and restaurants are closed, some may not ever open again. Something over 16.5 million people have been vaxed. Either Pfizer or AstraZeneca.

Pfizer is a messenger RNA and Astra - known as the Oxford virus is Adenovirus DNA. It's best to Youtube search but this is a brief intro. How they develop vaccines is not the sort of DIY done in the garden workshop.

https://www.news-medical.net/health/The-Size-of-SARS-CoV-2-Compared-to-Other-Things.aspx

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/virus-vs-bacteria-difference

The Astra Zeneca is inexpensive and can be stored in a domestic fridge. The others need more industrial freezing.

Brexit. From the Brexiteer point of view those who are eating their livers out are people who've suffered financially and a breed of obsessives known as Remainiacs who have no truck with a democratic vote and often have no more reasons for Remaining than they didn't want to leave.

Remainiacs are quite often liars. They look down their noses and accuse adamant Leavers or Brexiteers as unintelligent and uneducated. In this light they try to announce false figures. In round numbers:

UK electorate (those over 18 who are on the electoral register) in 2016 = 44 million

Turnout on 23 June 2016 -33 million

For Leave = 17.4 million For Remain 16.1 million

52% for 48% against.

Remainiacs like to add those who didn't vote to the 48% iow 27.1 million and declared that as the number who didn't wish to leave the EU.

<< according to the Electoral Commission, in total Remain spent more on the referendum (£19,070566) than Leave did (£13,436,241). And that's without the £9 million government leaflet and the full weight of the 'establishment' factored in. >>

4.5 years later We are out, on our own, sovereign independent and the ~iacs are still fired up about it.

Douglas Adams had a book out about shopping trollies, or carts which gave me the idea for this:-

Obsessive Remainiacs are like old shopping trolleys abandoned at the side of the road.

Originally stolen by drunk youths, they lie there at odd angles, corroding with the UV fading and cracking their plastic parts. Their castors seized up, they are impossible to steer in any direction.

Well meaning attempts to return them to their hive are often too late. Newer models have superseded them and now they don’t fit with the other shiny ones which now make attractive car park centipedes flashing proudly in the sun as they are orchestrated, choreographed, by a blasé operative. Spare parts are impossible to find and the semi retired blokes who gather them for return to the shop are not paid enough to bother repairing them.

The hilarious occasions which presaged their doom long forgotten, Council teams with pickups with mesh cages are sent out to fish them out of ditches, rivers and canals; their final sad journey to the scrap skip at the local tip.

Text £3 to 833833. Nobody should be left behind at the side of the road.