There seems to have been a real breach in our defences as a result of Covid.
Up to the end of January most of us were blissfully unaware of the virus, and even when it began to make the lower levels of the news, regarded it as some sort of a little local difficulty.
It's easier to be against.
Then, like a breach in a defensive wall, everything happened at once. Our routines were shattered, our assumptions about our lives turned upside down. Along with the immediate impact, other things that were conveniently hidden in our day to day lives became very evident.
It challenges the areas we know about how we engage with the world - our status, our sense of certainty, our autonomy, our relationships and maybe above all our sense of fairness. Covid just doesn't feel fair.
It's easy to be against things - to create an enemy of someone or something. It allows us to focus, to feel it's something that has been done to us. Fear - fight, flight, freeze. No need to think, …
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