It is strange to me that during this period with all the restrictions we have laboured under that professional sport has continued almost undisturbed. I get that they are kept in “bubbles” and tested regularly but it seems disproportionate in relation to what the “ordinary” population have had to endure. Don’t get me wrong I have enjoyed the Premier League and with West Ham fourth in the table I am getting a nose bleed! Now the cycling season has got under way in earnest, it is good to watch the races. It does give one pause that there are two standards, one for the wealthy sports and another for everyone else! Perhaps we should have learnt the lesson and could have controlled our lives smarter during this pandemic? Whilst it is difficult to control a large population and we have seen how the rules have been flouted and frankly at times been out of control. Businesses have had to spend in order to comply with the Covid requirements and access has been restricted make it difficult. With a little more thought and effort, they could have opened earlier. Supermarkets and other “essential” shops and businesses have never closed. The “rules” quickly broke down and now we play “lip service” to the 6 foot rule has largely been ignored except at the checkout or queuing to get in! We have to learn to adapt and live with the consequences of this virus and at present we need to be even more innovative than we currently are! The initial “rush’ will inevitably die down. I am no scientist and certainly no expert on infectious viruses but if we are to get back to attending theatres, cinemas (although in my experience cinemas are so poorly attended each time I have been, social distancing seems to have been the norm anyway!) gigs etc innovation has to be the way forward and before anyone shouts at me, I know that these venues have made strenuous efforts to be ready to open and have been inventive in presenting plays, concerts and other events.
In 50 or hundred years historians will write and talk about the great pandemic of the early 2020’s and how life changed for the whole planet. We will become those people we often see documentaries on who were alive in a time of great peril! I’m sure none of us would have believed that we would be exposed to a pandemic in our so called modern lives, which just proves how nature is dead set on wiping us out! (Quite rightly so!) Just think of the stuff nature has thrown at us in the last 60 years, it is almost as though it resents what the damage humans have rent upon her!
Stay well
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