I am sitting here in my office, overwhelmingly
convinced that everything is going to be all right. I know everyone is scared,
and I know the situation is going to get worse, possibly much worse, before it
gets better, and I know a lot of people are going to face heartache, loss and financial
despair, but I just think we’re going to get through it.
Amazing
things are happening. Amazing advancements are being made. Amazing
personalities are shining through from previously unnoticed people.
Human
individuals succumb to disease, but humanity itself is resilient.
Plagues
have ravaged centuries past and, even without modern medicine and advanced
scientific understanding, Mankind found a way to overcome them.
I think
I’m right in saying that World War One, and the Spanish flu that followed hot
on its heels, wiped out one third of the world’s population in a decade. No
family was unaffected. But society survived and recovered.
World
War Two took tens of millions of lives. Most countries brought in rationing. In
Britain, cold winters after the end of the war ruined crops and meant some food
was still scarce into the 1950s.
Britain,
and all other nations, survived.
This
may be a three-month affair, it may linger on over the Summer, it may all be
over by Christmas or it may drag on indefinitely, as we crawl through 18 months
of controlled existence until a worldwide vaccine is available.
We just
don’t know.
But
what I do know, today, is how I feel, and today I feel (foolishly?)
hopeful.
RC 1-4-20
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