Chickens are coming home to roost in city

SO the chickens have come home to roost as regards Covid hitting Nottingham! Highest rate in the country it seems.

I have not wanted to comment on this because the temptation to say “I told you so” was too great, frankly. I talked previously about the trams and lack of enforcement and the need to do more than just issue announcements. Yes, a lot of people have heeded the warnings on public transport, but there are still people going about looking as though they don’t give a toss.

Moving on and taking a current view of the country, what continually irks me is the way you have all the moaning minnies around the country who complain that their precious bit of the country is affected. Arguments I have heard, and there have been many, have included: “Well Covid is in a neighbouring area but not with us currently, so why should we be affected with a lockdown?”. Or: “Why are we not being paid a 100 percent (of wages) by the Government instead of two thirds?”. Then there are all those playing politics and taking the opposite stance to the Prime Minister. Makes me sick!

Crises brings out the best and the worst in people and organisations. We have seen great sacrifices made by NHS staff, bus drivers, delivery people, Post Office workers and others who have to brave the day-to-day contact with the great unwashed – the general public.

On the other hand we still get selfish and arrogant attitudes from people, many in some sort of authority, bemoaning their fate instead of getting behind the Prime Minister and realising that the greater good of the country is more important than the fact that they are being temporarily inconvenienced. Wear the mask, distance yourself from others and try thinking that keeping Covid at bay and protecting the elderly and the vulnerable is way more important than your trips to the pub or bemoaning about your precious finances.

Maybe all this will result in people with more common sense, possessuing a better sense of handling other people’s money, and looking to be a more responsible person or organisation than they were before Covid.

Mind you. I think to get to that stage will involve an awful lot of hard work for some people, and probably beyond their present abilities.

Brian George Nottingham