THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR
SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora now writes for the Daily Express. Our readers can now enjoy the soothing advice in these troubled times that have won him hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
THERE is no question that the debate in our country has become increasingly bitter and divided. People are angry, I understand that.
Our Government has made mistakes and I have made my objections clear when they have done so, but the atmosphere we are now seeing must be soothed somehow.
I have no interest in politics or petty point scoring. My mantra has always been it is better to try and bring people together rather than tear them apart. How can we move forward as a country if people are stubbornly entrenched in different tribes?
Joining Twitter has been an eye-opening experience for me. Just because I’m not a doom-monger people accuse me of being a Government stooge or having a hidden agenda.
I always keep my tweets calm, factual and polite – it’s a shame more don’t follow. So how do we get past this? It’s tough. Unhelpful comparisons are now drawn with our European neighbours by people who should know better. We have always been at least two weeks behind the continent, so just as our numbers looked better in comparison at the start of this crisis, now they look worse.
The falling number of new infections and hospital admissions will result in fewer fatalities. If more and more people were being admitted to hospital I would be concerned, but it’s just not happening.
We eased our lockdown over three weeks ago now and there has been no sign of any rise in infection. The same applies for the four European countries that came out just after Easter.
Whether you think the Government has handled this crisis well or not, I have a mixed view, there is no doubt that the situation is improving. But society has been poisoned with fear and we are seeing the consequences of that. We must try and pull it together very quickly.