And so everything is back on. Well almost/not quite/not at all depending on what business you are looking at. There seems to be a massive discrepancy between them all. Some stores are heavily populated yet a lot seem extremely quiet. Some high streets have got their life back, others are as dead as they were before anything re-opened.
A lot of shops are dependent on office workers and/or tourists who are still not back yet so they are barely getting anyone in through their doors. The Gov wants the country back up and running at full speed but it can’t possibly function as normal until everything is open. And that is going to be a while because we are a long way from normal.
Everyone knows the relaxation of the lockdown has fuck all to do with the reduction of the threat. It’s still out there which means as soon as things pick up it will be back, because it hasn’t really gone away. Yes, we are all ‘over it’ and wanna get back to some semblance of normality but the virus doesn’t care about that. And if it was conscious and could observe the sights of packed beaches, mass gatherings and illegal raves happening all over the country it would no doubt be licking its lips in anticipation…if it had lips.
It’s actually a shame Covid-19 isn’t self-aware otherwise it could maybe look at how much it has achieved in a very short space of time and take a break safe in the knowledge that it will most definitely win “most promising newcomer” at the 2020 Virus awards. “I would just like to thank my carriers, I couldn’t have done it without you…” It should really congratulate itself on a great campaign and a very successful world tour and take a well earned rest but sadly it doesn’t have a brain. Or a body for that matter. But it is insatiably contagious fucking incredible at replicating itself and that is why we are in this mess.
It would be amazeballs to be able to go out and not think about this shit for a while but sadly that is not going to happen. We’re unfortunately stuck with this mofo for the foreseeable so might as well mask up, keep our distance, accept it has not gone away and do everything we can not to create anothe spike just as our exhausted NHS workers are barely recovering.
They desperately need a respite from the relentless onslaught of critical patients they have been battling to keep alive for months. They have seen death on a scale normally associated with war whilst we moaned about being bored at home. We must not let their sacrifice and hard work be nothing. We must do everything we can to keep a lid of this fucker. And we must just be prepared to acknowledge that business as usual is now a thing of the past, it is not coming back…this is Business of the Unusual so we need to act like it.
Nature dictates you either adapt or die and that is what we must do. My fear is that, based on what I have seen over last few months we are seemingly too selfish to survive. Our narcissistic self-centred focus has become so acute it’s actually working contrary to our primary drive to stay alive. And that’s obvs a bit of a problem…we need to be better than this Britain, way fucking better.