Random reflections on a post covid world

Change is in the air - now move along, please.

We know the pandemic is not officially over yet, but judging by the haste with which people are forgetting or ignoring what has been going on in the last three years, it’s over, gone, finished. [we wrote this as the pandemic was still officially raging].

No more “moronic Covid cycle lanes” (thanks, Paul, for giving our readers this gem of institutional idiocy). Did you comply with those arrows on the floor, one-way supermarket systems and those stairwells that sent you around the building? Also, no more masking for carnivals and forcing people to do things they do not want to do. Please, no more bubbles, social distancing, 10-clock curfews, nightly bulletins, and stargazing productions. 

The “no more” list is - indeed -  long.

Regardless of whether all this will happen again or not, something feels different; the fabric of society is changed, and some of our relationships are irreversibly broken. No one seems to care if more people than usual die, if the young drop dead and the elderly a…