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So its get back to work, go out for a meal, enjoy playing a team sport and make sure you pick up a sandwich from the local corner shop.
But dont, whatever you do, see more than 6 people you know inside or out. Despite all of the above mentioned activities commonly involving close contact with several people
So its get back to work, go out for a meal, enjoy playing a team sport and make sure you pick up a sandwich from the local corner shop.
But dont, whatever you do, see more than 6 people you know inside or out. Despite all of the above mentioned activities commonly involving close contact with several people
So its get back to work, go out for a meal, enjoy playing a team sport and make sure you pick up a sandwich from the local corner shop.
But dont, whatever you do, see more than 6 people you know inside or out. Despite all of the above mentioned activities commonly involving close contact with several people
Clear?
Why wait until monday. The weather for this weekend is forecast to be lovely. Loads of folk are going to have a last hurrah before these measures become enforceable. The fear factor is nowhere near as great as it was in April among a fair chunk of the population, so are there going to be a lot of people who think f@@k it, we're carrying on as normal. I think probably yes.
We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub.
This was never going to be a straightforward and easy situation, with an obvious and simple path which, if followed, would lead to things rapidly returning to the status quo ante.
We're partly suffering from the current populace (not just in the UK) having a massive sense of entitlement (e.g. "it's my right to go abroad on holiday", "why shouldn't I be allowed to socialise","why should i have to wear a mask"), combined with a diet of consumerism and the media giving the patience and attention span of a two-year-old with ADHD. On top of that, the exaltation in recent decades of self over society (on a broad psychological level - people will still help their immediate neighbours, but resent paying tax for social initiatives elsewhere).
Also a leadership (political and business) who are still more concerned about restoring things to how they used to be at the fastest possible pace, fearing inflation, loss of revenue and anger from an impatient public. Even ridiculous statements such as "If people don't get back to work normally, they will no longer want to". In a major war, those would take second place to achieving victory. Why not in a major health crisis?
People have to grasp that we may not return to how things were in our lifetimes, if ever. Even if a vaccine is produced and the virus defeated, working and lifestyle patterns may have changed for good. Things which weren't really viable even before* may have taken mortal damage. This may be more than just a bump in the road.
* e.g. the rampantly loss-making way of running football in this country.
This was never going to be a straightforward and easy situation, with an obvious and simple path which, if followed, would lead to things rapidly returning to the status quo ante.
We're partly suffering from the current populace (not just in the UK) having a massive sense of entitlement (e.g. "it's my right to go abroad on holiday", "why shouldn't I be allowed to socialise","why should i have to wear a mask"), combined with a diet of consumerism and the media giving the patience and attention span of a two-year-old with ADHD. On top of that, the exaltation in recent decades of self over society (on a broad psychological level - people will still help their immediate neighbours, but resent paying tax for social initiatives elsewhere).
Also a leadership (political and business) who are still more concerned about restoring things to how they used to be at the fastest possible pace, fearing inflation, loss of revenue and anger from an impatient public. Even ridiculous statements such as "If people don't get back to work normally, they will no longer want to". In a major war, those would take second place to achieving victory. Why not in a major health crisis?
People have to grasp that we may not return to how things were in our lifetimes, if ever. Even if a vaccine is produced and the virus defeated, working and lifestyle patterns may have changed for good. Things which weren't really viable even before* may have taken mortal damage. This may be more than just a bump in the road.
* e.g. the rampantly loss-making way of running football in this country.
On a side note, I watched an interesting interview with a forensic psychologist about how as a society we are creating more and more sociopaths because the behaviour is rewarded.
This was never going to be a straightforward and easy situation, with an obvious and simple path which, if followed, would lead to things rapidly returning to the status quo ante.
We're partly suffering from the current populace (not just in the UK) having a massive sense of entitlement (e.g. "it's my right to go abroad on holiday", "why shouldn't I be allowed to socialise","why should i have to wear a mask"), combined with a diet of consumerism and the media giving the patience and attention span of a two-year-old with ADHD. On top of that, the exaltation in recent decades of self over society (on a broad psychological level - people will still help their immediate neighbours, but resent paying tax for social initiatives elsewhere).
Also a leadership (political and business) who are still more concerned about restoring things to how they used to be at the fastest possible pace, fearing inflation, loss of revenue and anger from an impatient public. Even ridiculous statements such as "If people don't get back to work normally, they will no longer want to". In a major war, those would take second place to achieving victory. Why not in a major health crisis?
People have to grasp that we may not return to how things were in our lifetimes, if ever. Even if a vaccine is produced and the virus defeated, working and lifestyle patterns may have changed for good. Things which weren't really viable even before* may have taken mortal damage. This may be more than just a bump in the road.
* e.g. the rampantly loss-making way of running football in this country.
On your last point you're totally right, even if there was a vaccine tomorrow, the commute, office, sandwich culture is gone and to be fair it was always on the cards.
Read this the other day about New York, you can see a similar pattern emerging in London.
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