The Musings of a Dik-dik

...but is it really a good thing? Lockdown is over. Not really, but that is how so many of the population appear to be interpreting the latest relaxing of restrictions due on 4th July. Yet, even though there are businesses that still cannot reopen, even though there are restrictions for the businesses that can, why are so many seeing it as an effective end to the restrictions? I'd argue it's because of the haphazard way in which the government has communicated throughout this crisis. In addition to the poor handling of those in senior positions being found to have gone against the restrictions. While the government has "moved on" from the Cummings affair, a large portion of the population hasn't forgotten. But let's not forget that Jenrick was also found to have taken the proverbial early on in lockdown, used his parents as a get-out clause and got off very lightly - he played on the sympathies of having parents living far away and the fact they were shie

How will these times define us? Everyone everywhere is using the phrase "the new normal". An oxymoron in itself but we won't dwell on that too much. Due to the global pandemic that we are in the midst of right now, almost everything about the way we go about our lives has changed and more is in the process of changing. What I'm trying to decide is this: are we simply adapting to meet the current needs as a temporary measure or are we evolving in the way we do so many everyday things that we are unlikely to go back to how things were before Covid-19 struck? I'm inclined to argue the former at this point (perhaps with a dash of evolution thrown in for good measure). Society has had innumerable changes imposed upon it as a result of the pandemic. We are twelve weeks into restrictions and we still see complaints that certain aspects of the guidance are not being followed by so many. Add to that the fundamentally unnatural perspective to much of what we are livi