“What a bunch of pessimists!” I shouted at the evening news.
Cambridge University has already decided that all of its lectures next year will be online.
Rolls Royce have made a load of people redundant because they don’t think they’ll survive.
I’m not against making plans for every eventuality, in fact I think that is not only wise, it’s necessary but to decide one way or the other before you actually ‘know’ is stupid.
The University’s decision could economically destroy the whole of the Cambridge area if students then decide they might as well live at home, save their accommodation fees and treat their studies like an OU course. Rolls Royce’s decision is equally detestation for Coventry, Daventry, or whatever Midlands town with a tree in they are based.
Marks and Spencer’s have said that shopping will never be the same again.
Nobody knows what is going to happen. It’s too early to make those decisions. Some measures have been relaxed and as you will have seen from pictures and videos of Southend beach that not everyone is observing social distancing. You might get angry about that but what if the numbers continue to fall? If they do, some children will go back to school. Clearly, four year olds don’t know what social distancing means and they lick everything. You might get angry about that but what if the numbers continue to fall? If they do, a few more children will go back and shops will open. By then it will be very difficult for people to maintain strict social distancing and there will be lots of people out there that never wash their hands. You might get angry about that but what if the numbers continue to fall? Then bars and restaurants will open and drunken snogging of strangers will resume. You might get angry about that but what if the numbers continue to fall? Then we will be back to normal. The virus could have mutated to become less virulent and we will all be able to breathe a sigh of relief.
I know that’s wild optimism but that’s what I choose.
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