Covid - All over?

 Amidst the final build up to the Coronation and the news about the local government elections, here is a story that could easily be missed but which is of huge significance

BBC website

The pandemic may have finally declined to the point that 500 people dying from it every day is not seen as a global problem but the sting in the story is the drastic underestimate of deaths and the continuing threat.  Certainly in the streets of London there are very few signs left of the disease which three years ago brought normal life to a halt - the occasional mask-wearer, and some of the signs about keeping one's distance are all that remain to remind us. Those suffering from the effects of long Covid are invisible. Are we as a society becoming complacent? The health service workers clapped by people coming out of their houses on Thursday nights are now out of strike, trying to obtain a fair pay after years of freezes and inadequate settlements, whilst the government boasts about recruiting more. It leaves a feeling of desperate unease.

I did not write a great deal about impact of covid (at least not in this blog; I did keep a private journal of the lockdown period) and I hope never to have to mention it again.