I know too many people whom I'd love to administer the sword of Knighthood to, but I'd not bother to be gentle with it
Given how poorly they're handling the situation here and in how things are going back where I was living, I'll be heading back to 'normal' life in a few hours. It seems there's relatively few cases there- about the same as the area I'm in now- so no point in 'roughing it' here anymore. It looks like the virus is going to be in circulation here for many more months to come- maybe years- unless an effective vaccine emerges, and while I'll have a bit more close human contact there that will still be minimal and fairly controllable so I might as well do it. I had hoped for a more sensible response from my government, but it seems they're so damn worried about the economy that they're willing to sacrifice any number of lives to get what they're after so now it's as much the lick of the draw as anything else whether I can avoid the disease or not, and my location will not change my luck. I am a very lucky person in that my luck is very good or very bad with very little in between, so I don't hold out much hope for me anymore but I will keep trying to stay safe just in case
And now something of a rant for those who might care. In all this, and indeed even before this, I've come to see that there are a lot more delusional people than I'd thought in the world today. Maybe it's just been this pandemic which has made them stand out more. There's nothing to be gained from denying reality except some temporary comfort which is going to disappear and indeed leave you feeling far worse when the unassailable truth takes hold and beats you down, which it will most definitely do sooner or later. Far better to accept reality for what it is now even when it's rotten because at least then it won't beat you down later. You can't fix a problem till you admit that it's a problem, and no amount of trying to justify something has ever fixed anything. So shortly I'll be packing and heading back downhill to face the problem of life in the pandemic however it is because no matter how much I want reality to be different, it is what it is, good or bad, and I'm OK with that
Phil