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It’s just something I herd …<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Diary of a Self-isolator: Day 700 [2 February 2022]<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Published: 2 February 2022 ~ Heard the one about Herd Immunity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I am not mistaken, and I often am, from what I can make out it seems as if it was announced on 31 January 2022 that the rule of restrictive access to bars, restaurants, museums etc, implemented under the auspices of the controversial QR Codes (Vaccination Passports to you in the UK) have been repealed in Kaliningrad1<\/sup>. If this is the case, what a relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Support the Canadian Truckers’ Freedom Convoy
The funding platform for those stalwart truckers is: https:\/\/www.givesendgo.com\/freedomconvoy2022<\/a>
www.givesendgo.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diary of a self-isolating Englishman in Kaliningrad<\/strong>
Previous articles:<\/strong>
Day 1 [20 March 2020]<\/a>
Day 6 [25 March 2020]<\/a>
Day 7 [26 March 2020]<\/a>
Day 9 [28 March 2020]<\/a>
Day 10 [29 March 2020]<\/a>
Day 16 [4 April 2020]<\/a>
Day 19 [7 April 2020]<\/a>
Day 35 [23 April 2020]<\/a>
Day 52 [10 May 2020]<\/a>
Day 54 [12 May 2020]<\/a>
Day 65 [23 May 2020]<\/a>
Day 74 [1 June 2020]<\/a>
Day 84 [11 June 2020]<\/a>
Day 98 [25 June 2020]<\/a>
Day 106 [3 July 2020]<\/a>
Day 115 [12 July 2020]<\/a>
Day 138 [30 July 2020]<\/a>
Day 141 [2 August 2020]<\/a>
Day 169 [30 August 2020]<\/a>
Day 189 [19 September 2020]<\/a>
Day 209 [9 October 2020]<\/a>
Day 272 [11 December 2020]<\/a>
Day 310 [18 January 2021]<\/a>
Day 333 [10 February 2021]<\/a>
Day 365 [14 March 2021]<\/a>
Day 394 [12 April 2021]<\/a>
Day 460 [17 June 2021]<\/a>
Day 483 [10 July 2021]<\/a>
Day 576 [11 October 2021]<\/a>
Day 579 [14 October 2021]<\/a>
Day 608 [2 November 2021]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heard the one about Herd Immunity?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Before coronavirus and QR codes, it was not unknown for me to frequent the city\u2019s bars, enjoy a beer or several and appreciate the presence of fellow drinkers and pretty women, all of which if it did not make me feel at least 40 years younger would make me wish that I was. In latter days, however, as a mature self-isolator, I have forsaken the city\u2019s bars and taken instead to sitting in the attic with a couple of bottles of beer and the cat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, my wife informed me that she heard me singing in the attic to the cat, substituting the words of Elton John, who was warbling away on YouTube, for more meaningful wowling \u2018meows\u2019. As my old friend Leonard would say, \u201cYes, it’s come to this, and wasn’t it a long way down?<\/a>\u201d Ahh well, the one consolation has been that at least the cat appreciates it. If he didn\u2019t, I\u2019m sure that he\u2019d have told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cat was also pleased to learn that in the UK the brown man with a bald head revealed today (1 February 2022), in more words than it takes to say U-turn, that the British government had changed its mind about sacking half the NHS for not wanting to be vaccinated. Is this a sign that common sense is prevailing, or should we keep glancing sideways for the suspected imminence of a \u2018more deadly Covid variant\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now out of the attic, nursing a hangover and with a ginger cat wearing two earplugs, I am also rather pleased that I am in Kaliningrad today (1 Feb 2022) and not attempting to cross the border between Canada and the United States, where Canada\u2019s plucky truckers have had to convene a freedom convoy to ram the message home that they, and many other freedom-loving Canadians, have no intention of caving in to conscripted vaccination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n