Week 18
Things feel like they’re back to normal and I have to admit there is something comforting about that. Its good to see kids playing in the park and people enjoying the prom. Of course it does help with the sun shining. Having the prom to myself felt good but a break from the normal always is. The real problem here is that everything isn’t back to normal. If a terrorist group had commandeered the Midland hotel and posted snipers on the roof the prom would be deserted even if the terrorists couldn’t be seen.
Seeing as British deaths at the hands of terrorists this year could probably be counted in single digits compared with 60k at the hands of Covid-19 we might need to calibrate our concerns. I’m not saying people without masks should be thought of as potential terrorists but some will be useful idiots in terms of spreading the virus. So getting back to the real problem: we just don’t know where we are with this thing and that’s got to be down to having no recognisable markers.
Matt Hancock moving the goalposts yet again this week (claiming lockdown actually began on March 16th) is so characteristic of how the government has approached the pandemic…
