Missed Opportunities of a Pandemic?
Have we missed an opportunity to hold a common cause? There was a time in early March 2020 when society seemed to be thrown into turmoil. Non essential businesses to be shut, only necessary social contact could be made. Toilet rolls and pasta started disappearing from shelves. Queues at petrol pumps. Anxiety and fear as to whether we would have enough. Like the ‘prepper’s had finally been vindicated. Then the day came, shutters went down. As their clang echoed to silence, another sound started. It was the sound of phones being picked up, of distanced door knockings, real voices of concern. Once the panic of being separated subsided, people realized that it wasn’t like 28 Days Later. For the first time in my life, there was a palpable sense of togetherness vibrating through the country. Not the ‘We’re all in this together’ spouted by politicians, but a togetherness that rose organically. Peoples lives had been forced to slow. We had time to think. Our neighbours became more imp...