About this blog
We are living, so we are told, at an unprecedented time of global crisis. At other such critical times, people came together to support and encourage each other. Covid19 is different. We all have to keep an ‘anti’-social distance – at least six feet away from each other. The elderly and those with symptoms are advised not leave home at all. Pubs, clubs, bars, restaurants and theatres have been closed. Public events have been cancelled.
But we are a social species. People suffer when they cannot have regular contact. Symptoms of loneliness and depression are likely to escalate, not to mention the anxiety provoked by ever more catastrophic press briefings and news bulletins. We need to keep a sense of proportion.
Garcia Gabriel Marquez wrote Love in the Time of Cholera using the disease as a loose metaphor for human affection. It’s a great title. It seems appropriate to adapt it as a title for this blog. For as long as the crisis lasts, I shall try to explore the affect of the current, pervasive threat on our society and our personal sense of identity and meaning and how we might best learn to cope with it. I am not trying to pretend I have the answers. I don’t. I’m as disturbed by this crisis as everybody else. But if you find it a useful on-line forum, do subscribe (at no cost) and contribute your own ideas and thoughts to the aspects raised. And let others who might be interested know about it too.
The Third Wave
They said it might happen, but I don’t think anyone ever thought it would. A year ago, we knew there was an epidemic new type of coronavirus in China. But it was ‘over there’, and, like SARS in 2014, it would be contained and would not affect us. But the first cases began arriving…
Sombre September
A month ago, it was nearly all over, or so it seemed. Infection rates in August had fallen to their lowest since March. ‘We have beaten the virus’, The Prime Minister, Mr Boris Johnson, announced with customary hubris, encouraging people to go back to work, children to return to school and students to go back…
Will we ever be sure?
We might have thought it would be all over by now. In some ways it is: pupils return to school on Tuesday, the Prime Minister (yes – he’s still there!) has threatened people to return to work or risk losing their jobs, the roads are much busier, pubs and restaurants are open and for some,…
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Love in the Time of Coronavirus 