Covid: We’re not being asked to sacrifice much

There are some similarities with our situation, in the middle of a pandemic, to the generation of people who went through the Second World War.

For instance, during the years 1939 to 1945, 67,000 civilians were killed in the UK, most through bombing raids and V2 rockets.

At present 52,000 people have died because of Covid-19 and the terrible effects of the virus.

Sadly this will probably rise to pass 67,000 before the vaccine will set us free.

The government of those former times had leaders of the quality of Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Ernest Bevin, who stirred the population to work together, support each other and to “keep calm and carry on”.

However, the present population is not reacting in the same co-ordinated way.

We don’t have to rush down to air raid shelters, dig for Britain or experience food rationing.

All we have to do is wash our hands, wear a mask and keep a space between us.

This is not difficult yet I am dismayed that every time I go to the supermarket I see people who do not wear masks, and many don’t use the hand sanitiser which is provided, nor do they bother to disinfect the handles of the basket they are going to carry.

This time around we don’t have to shelter from falling bombs, see our houses destroyed nor dodge high velocity bullets.

All we have to do is play our part to stop the transmission of the virus.

Let’s all make the effort to do it!

David Goodger