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Part 8: Why are we planning to go back to “normal” anyway? PANDEMIC

George Lamptey
5 min readJun 11, 2020

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Definition: pandemic (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants:

What do I write about this week?

It’s the question I asked myself. There was an air of let the dust settle as I got around to writing this post. I realised that was an easy route out just because I felt a type of mental exhaustion. I’m sitting behind a desk on a comfy seat doing what I enjoy, a bit of writing so why stop? At the same time I cannot discount the fragility I’ve felt on recent events.

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I only started writing this blog five weeks ago and I thought I’d be on topics like travel, tourism, hospitality, sustainability, sport and celebrity from the viewpoint of the impact of Covid-19. More importantly what would the “new normal” and beyond look like? How could there be improvement and enlightenment in many different areas due to the impact of the virus. I also wanted to focus on schools and education again as it’s something close to my heart.

Then, as I progressed from topic to topic, with the current affairs getting deeper and deeper I realised this is real and current. Why should I hide from the uncomfortable? I will certainly not document personal experience after personal experience but the virus

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George Lamptey
George Lamptey

Written by George Lamptey

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