Well, lucky you Gwyneth if you’ve managed to get through the last 10 months without once painfully missing your children and grandchildren, your friends, going out as and when you please, not been cooped up in a small apartment with only yourself for company, or worse still, with a partner who you no longer love or who abuses you, not had to manage on a much reduced income, not been made redundant, not had to homeschool your children, not had to watch a loved one suffer or even die with Covid, not had to worry about your young adult child missing out on so much of their education and social life, or your adult child exhausted with working in the NHS as a front-line worker.
I’m happy for you.
I fully accept that lockdown is necessary to safeguard our NHS and prevent unnecessary deaths and suffering.
But please don’t pretend it’s easy. Every one of us has made sacrifices in some way and many people are suffering even if they haven’t actually contracted the virus.
Sadly, war, famine and suffering in other countries will always be there and there is very little we as individuals can do to alleviate it.
Don’t let’s add guilt about something over which we have no control to the distress many feel as a result of the pandemic.