Closed curtains, Covid relief, and the problem with the current crop of candidates for PM
Much rejoicing today as my first negative LFT for nearly a fortnight finally arrives. After two years of dodging the Covid bullet, it finally got me. My first feeling was one of relief. The other shoe had dropped. It was like lockdown all over again. For natural pessimists, the pandemic was like the snapping of a too-tight elastic band. At last, the nameless thing we had somehow known all our lives was coming for us was here. It did have a name, and a shape and a form, and we had spent our lives inwardly preparing at some level for this. It did not disturb our worldview but confirmed it. There was great comfort in this, and I felt genuinely sorry for optimists who underwent much more of a psychic shock.
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