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Part 5: Why are we planning to go back to “normal” anyway? PRIVILEGE

George Lamptey
4 min readMay 27, 2020

Really?

The birds are still singing in my garden, but I hear them less now as the cars on the street and the trains are back, and back with a vengeance. “Normal is making a strong comeback in a very big way.”

Photo by Jacob Boavista on Unsplash

Before I started writing this piece I sighed and just shook my head as to what was being played out in the media this week. Almost in slow motion — the frenzy of how the establishment can play around in the lockdown. The deaths (officially they now number 37,000+ in the UK) will barely get a mention. I remember early in the pandemic discussing with a friend that we will get to a period where x hundred of deaths from Covid-19 will just be a passing comment in the news like the weather is presented daily. We are here now.

During the early days of the crisis, there was also a sense that everyday events were secondary. Brexit was a distant memory; knife crime had fallen considerably and hope had kind of been singing daily of fundamental change in all aspects of life. This was of course a very optimistic view.

The opposite of hope is despair and I came back early in the morning to update my article following the tragic murder in broad daylight of George Floyd by police officers in Minnesota. Normal is not making a comeback because it never really

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George Lamptey
George Lamptey

Written by George Lamptey

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