Reflections 4 October

What I’ve noticed.

There's an interesting continuum in what is happening. A great deal of unity and patience in the early days of the pandemic. Mutual support. Understanding that this is complex, with no instant answers. Fear as to where it might go. Genuine appreciation of those who stepped up and took the risks to look after us.

This morphed into something like weariness as rhetoric failed to meet reality, initiative after initiative dissolved into the next one with vast amounts of money being spent with little apparent regard to consequence or risk, and the end of this support rolling into sight and the impact on jobs and livelihoods hitting home as the leaves start to fall.

I sense something different now, and an impatience with the actions of those we look to for leadership. The situation remains complex and challenging, but an apparent lack of grasp on detail, and those in privileged positions looking after themselves, and treating their own rules with disdain.

There are of course m…