Clap for carers happens every Thursday evening at 8:00pm. It begins to feel like the scene from 1984 where the population is expected to applaud their leaders. Nothing wrong as such, but there are sinister undertones; what happens to those who don't applaud? Will they receive the help they need at a critical time? These concerns leave us all vulnerable to exploitation.
The UK news reports on NHS staff fighting on the "front line" of this "hideous war". The lock-down has been extended by another three weeks and the government has begun to deny many of the promises earlier made about providing PPE for carers and testing people for the disease.
Outside of the UK, there are doubts on the veracity of China's death toll; how can it be so low if it's the same disease we are experiencing here? I feel we do not know half of what is going on.
This plague will not be the end of the human race, but fear will cause huge changes to our society in the future. We have to wonder what the new "normal" will be once we are over this. I read a post comparing the situation to the "jam every other day" offered to Alice in Wonderland in the book "Through the Looking-Glass".
"You couldn't have it if you did want it," the Queen said. "The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today."