Day: 31 August 2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7oqRawiE0g This weekend I went to Berlin to attend a protest entitled “Berlin invites Europe – Festival for freedom and peace” organised by Querdenken, an organisation based in Stuttgart, who organised several protests with the aim of “reinstating fundamental rights and repealing the COVID-19 restrictions”. Before attending the protest, I visited the Berlin Story Museum to see an exhibition called “How could it happen?” about Hitler’s rise to power, and the horrors of the Nazi regime. We were instructed to wear masks at the entrance – and we meekly complied. However, the bunker was very hot and I found it difficult to breathe, so while no one was watching and no other tourists were nearby, I let the mask slip under my nose. About three minutes later, an enormous, grey-haired security guard charged into the room, put himself between me and the information I was reading (much closer than 1.5 metres), and glared down at me. He informed me that he had seen that my mask was not covering my nose through the security cameras he had been monitoring, and that this was against the museum’s policy. I was so intimidated by this giant masked man appearing three inches from my face, that I was left speechless, took a few steps back, apologised and obeyed. That all this happened in ...

UK's Covid death toll rises by ONE In spite of all the hysterical talk of a 'second wave' this Winter and rising cases in England, the number of people who died in Britain on Sunday was precisely one. The Mail has more. The country's death toll is remaining low as just one person died after testing positive for the disease bringing the UK's total fatalities during the pandemic to 41,499.Figures on Sunday are usually smaller due to a delay in processing over the weekend.There were no new deaths in Scotland for the fourth consecutive day. Wales and Northern Ireland each had no new fatalities for the third straight day.Scotland reported 123 new cases, taking the total number of positive infections to 20,318. The Mail says that 1,715 people tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, the biggest daily rise in 12 weeks. But the death toll continues to fall. And 40 B&H Please A reader has an amusing story. A surreal scene, recounted to me by my elderly neighbour as he queued to pay for his groceries at the local store.The chap ahead of him (fully masked up) got to the till and said to the girl at the checkout “and 40 B&H please…”It’s a strange world we live in! Perhaps the chap had heard that smokers are at a lower ...