Covid 19

Human nature is a funny old thing isn't it? Humans and dolphins are the only known mammals who mate for fun and not just for the sole purpose of procreation. I don't mean there's a human out there whose only joy in life is dolphin bothering although that might be why Jeff up the road is banned from the sea life centre. On the whole people are good but there are some proper wrong 'uns out there.
The current covid 19 pandemic has brought a tidal wave of wrong 'uns out into the open. People who are good, or perceived to be, have gone corona crazy. The other thing that's reached pandemic proportions, particularly in the UK, is panic buying. It started with people stock piling loo rolls and pasta. Then the tindemic and the great hand sanitiser exodus. Bizarrely our local supermarket ran out of cat biscuits. Not the meat-loads of that-just the biscuits. What the actual fornication? Surely not everybody has a cat? Not only that but why just the biscuits? Probably to lure the dolphins in. Well they do tend to be fish flavoured.
The people who panic shopped were still savvy with their purchases despite apparently being driven to act like contestants in Supermarket Sweep. I did note that while ALL of the tinned food had been bought the Fray Bentos pies and Heinz beans had been left behind like an ugly step child during tinmageddon because they were not on offer. Crazy times people.
My eldest daughter is doing a GCSE in food tech and i couldn't get the ingredients she needed for her spaghetti bolognese because bell ends had bought 3 tonnes of the stuff. I found myself having to get up unbelievably early on my only day off to drive to the supermarket and beat the rush just so my child could do her practical exam. I took my husband for security and i was also packing an air of 'fuck them all' which i find useful in these situations. We arrived at 7.50am, ten minutes before opening time. The car park had around 3 or 4 cars in it and my nieve other half said 'i think you're slightly over reacting love'. Slightly over reacting??? How very dare he!!! I was massively over reacting. However, we got our bags out of the car boot, headed for the door and waited for it to open. Within 5 minutes of us getting there the car park was full and there was a huge queue of people behind us. The doors opened and people piled in like their lives depended on it. It was every man/woman for themselves. The woman who was stood in the queue behind us was the first to pile loo rolls and pasta into her trolley racing around like a fucking rabid crack head. Only 5 minutes prior she'd been happily chatting to an elderly gent about how ridiculous these panic shoppers were and how you would never catch her doing that. She was right about one thing...that you would never catch her. She was off like a robber's dog. I saw a grown man having a toddler tantrum at a cashier for not letting him buy ALL of the dried spaghetti. A grown man people! The world has gone mad. Panic buying in the purest sense of the meaning is going out to buy say bread, cheese and milk. You then panic and come home with a jar of pickled walnuts, an angle grinder and some magic beans.These people are amateurs.
All of the schools in the UK closed indefinitely a few days ago so cue shops running out of wine and gin in around 1 weeks time. Don't get me wrong, i love my kids. The problem is that they hate each other. My options are limited as i work from home so i either pick a favourite and release the other one into the wild, move into the shed or start day time drinking. Wine and spirits aisle here i come.
I realise it's human nature to survive but at what cost? People who are generally pillars of the community are shedding their masks too readily for my liking. The integrity and moral compass in some people is becoming infected quicker than a hooker's fanny.
Our village pub closed it's doors as all pubs and clubs were ordered to by the government in order to protect it's citizens from this virus and reduce cases. Some people were actually complaining and giving the management a hard time. People are dying around the world in their thousands and selfishly the only concern these folk had was that they can't go to the pub for a pint. The staff at the pub, many of whom are on a zero hours contract (including myself in a part time capacity) either will not get paid or have been laid off until further notice. How do the punters think these people are feeling? I suspect, after what i have witnessed in the supermarkets, not one fuck is given.
Some good folk are offering help to those who need it such as shopping, dog walking, picking up prescriptions or just being there at the end of the phone. These are good people and they give me faith in humanity. the other selfish bastards can go to hell in a handcart as far as i'm concerned.
The National Trust has opened it's trust sites free of charge, Burger King are offering free lunches to kids, the BBC are putting loads of old favourites on iplayer and lots of people are running all manner or groups on line such as the Military Wives Choir, exercise groups, book groups etc. See. Some people are good and think of others in the face of adversity. Some people are dicks. Which category do you fall into dear reader?

A little joke to make you think of something else and my gift to you.
A man goes into a doctors surgery to give a sperm sample. The doctor asks the man if he could masterbate in the cup. The man replies.. " well i know i'm really good at it but i've never thought about entering competitions before".

Thankyou and it's goodnight from her....