Diary 226

Diary 226

Friday, October 30th

Snow greeted us this morning. It wasn’t heavy, but it was snow. Four inches, I’d say – enough to make a snow princess with two small girls to help me.

France has declared a lockdown – one in which people are restricted from leaving their homes except for ’essential purposes’ like food shopping, for a month. The resultant scramble for people to get to wherever they needed to be for the next month caused over 700 kms (nearly 500 miles) of traffic jams around Paris — a record even for France.

Meanwhile the ‘president’ has made the claim that ‘Our doctors get more money if someone dies of Covid’. This, from the man who was hospitalized with it.