Week 15
Time is a tyrant. If it’s alive it ages, if it’s dead it decays, if it’s inanimate it weathers. If it doesn’t weather it still gathers dust and even if it’s sealed it gets preserved in the past while time marches on in all its tyranical certainty. Time demands you stay with the program. It’s a moving train — you get 30 seconds to board or unboard and you are either on the train or you are history.
As monstrous as the CoVID-19 crisis has been it’s a pussy cat when stood against time. It will (eventually) be consigned to history and even now it’s no longer a monolith. The easing of the lockdown is fragmenting our thoughts, actions and even our fears. Smaller secondary and tertiary outbreaks are creating new concerns and questioning our initial ideas about the virus. For governments like the UK and USA the initial strategies have been so unhinged, haphazard and almost non-existent that any new strategy has no real point of reference and that is, in itself, unsettling.
None (or very few) of us want constant supervision and instruction but we almost universally want some lines drawn or rules laid down as starting blocks and boundaries set (not to be hemmed in by them but to be there as markers). This is why we took to the lockdown so with so little resistance. Even in the USA, with its new frontier mindset, compliance has been high. The threat was taken…
