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We are not “culturally” ready for Covid
Definition: Culture: the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts
Let’s be honest
It hit us like a truck and we were looking in the other direction. The direction of selfishness.
On a global scale 35m infected and 1m deaths. Yes, from the new Covid-19 disease which has no cure. But it’s not the complete story. In some regions in the world it is being “managed” better than others. My focus where things are “just not right” is in Europe and I will focus on the UK, simply because it’s where I live and can see it firsthand. I write this before the second potential “national lockdown”.
We are not culturally ready for Covid. Look around you.
What do I mean? Well, the response on many levels is to maintain our way of life whether it be playing cricket and going to the pub as espoused by the prime minister or getting children back to school regardless because they suffer much less than adults.
We are in a pandemic but do you really have confidence the government has done its best? Does a PPE (not the medical equipment but the degree) — Politics, Philosophy and Economics degree, that course that is embedded into the…
