Nothing viral (known, anyway) seemed to be going on when the UK had its pre-spring flooding emergencies. And we didn't have a Beast From The East cold-snap this year, but what winter we did get largely happened before any Covid issues arose. Some might say the current heatwave (a very Britishly unBritish weather system that always surprises us, every time it arises, quite frequently as of late in fact) is a sort of willing partner to the pandemic, but imagine if the initial hidden rise in infections had occured during one of our other irregular national weirdnessesses? Ok, some of these would have us hunkering down, only huddling together in family units so doing part of the work in socially isolating, but the good folks of Fishlake who decamped from their sodden homes to emergency accomodation in their local church (frexample) would have found things more complicated if they had to think of infections as well as the other basic needs that were interupted.
Obviously, other parts of the world have other problems. Monsoons in the Indian Ocean (drifting over to die their vigirous last gasp in Western Australia) doubtless complicates the current precautions over there by a not insignificant amount. A major earthquake could cause some of the less-NZlike nations bordering the Pacific rim to have further issues (even if NZ seems to do well with both viral and geological threats, usually). The rioting in the US can be considered a socio-economical disaster to co-exist with the healthcare issues[1]. Locally, apart from a recent forest fire down in ?Devon?, likely started by sneakily non-licked-down visitors with a single-use BBQ tray left in an unsafe condition and a handful of households who
cannot stay at home, right now there seems nothing unduly problematic over and above the virus.
But if it spikes later in the year with other treacherous conditions affecting the nation, whatever they might be, it could be awkward.
(Not really a direct reply to Mc, Frump or Mc again, but some thoughts I've been developing that Mc's initial post prompted me to set down.)
[1] Though it at least encourages mask-wearing. Remember that just a month or two before Wuhan, Hong Kong was being aggressively policed
against mask-wearing, for public order 'reasons', then in life's great twist the exact opposite convention became supremely
de rigour all across China for health reasons. Which was funny when I thought of it in those terms.
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