Coming out of Covid lockdown, I don ’ t think so …

Fundamentally, we are still riding (just) the first wave of the global Covid-19 pandemic. If there are sudden spikes now, that’s still part of the first wave. Nothing has changed for the virus except that some people have been avoiding contact with other people, so the rates of infection in some places have slowed giving health services a bit of space to mop up and treated those seriously ill with the virus. But, at the time of writing half a million people, at least, have died from Covid-19. I don’t really know how I feel about this coming out of lockdown, to be honest. I suspect that having asthma and being in my 50s might make me more susceptible to being badly symptomatic with the coronavirus. Colds lay me out sometimes for weeks. But, there are far worse off people. The infection rate is very low in our neighbourhood, and indeed in our county as a whole, 51 in a million people infected as opposed to well over 140 in a million in Leicester, where a local lockdown has been implemented to try and reduce this number before it ravages the population there. I run a website and social media for a local pub. They’ve announced that rather than open on the 4th July when they have permission to start serving again, they will open on Monday the 6th to allow them to ease into the week. It will be incredibly busy, people will feel unleashed and gasping for a pint. But, to my mind, it only takes one infected person to cough in your face to almost guarantee that you&#...
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