Choices

I suspect today will be seen in retrospect as an indicator of how our mindsets may have changed during Covid-19.

Lockdown lasted long enough for us to change habits - like commuting, interminable meetings, eating out, spending time with families and many other smaller, but important aspects of our daily lives. It means that "going back to normal" is not automatic, but something we have to relearn.

Today, Boris Johnson will give a speech expected to exhort us to return to work, whist at the same time, the scientists whom we were asked to follow during lockdown disagree.

The science, the logic, and probabilities point to continued levels of risk. Our dependence on a disproporitonately large service economy needs us to take the risks.

There will I suspect be interesting low level conflicts. Landlords want offices to be in demand. The service industries that surround those offices - the coffee shops, restaurants, sandwich delivery companies and the like, also want them full.

The conflict will …