Day 14
It’s getting hard to concentrate and stay focused. My idea of avoiding getting bogged down in politics yesterday was always doomed to failure and even though everyone knew what the outcome of Labour’s leadership election was going to be, all that was missing was the shock factor.
The COVID-19 crisis has been as if there were a series of terrorist attacks but unlike the adrenaline rush that reports of a bomb or stabbing induces, it has more of a numbing effect. If the war on terror injected fear into society this crisis has slipped it into our coffee. Instead of it being an external threat it has gradually been normalised as we change our everyday behaviour because of it. Its only normal in that its a constant state of anxiety — chronic stress — which is decidedly unhealthy.
There is always hope but don’t expect to find it where you last looked
We are very bad at collating information and coming to a conclusion based on a summation of the evidence but much better at swallowing the most easily digestible version of it. No one knows if this government will be held to account for its lack of preparedness, lack of leadership and misinformation or if it will be able to monopolise on everyone’s dire need to return to some kind of normality and brush all the dirt under the carpet.*
