Short memories

I guess I’m easily baffled by the contemporary world, and yet again Covidisdominatingmymindset.

We are daily seeing 100-plus (one day was 250) dying of Covid – so we’re now talking 1,000 a week.

And we’re approaching 300,000 infections weekly.

Forgive my repetition but 1m-plus infections per month and rising, plus 4,000 deaths, but nobody seems fazed by this!

Have our senses, our fears and expectations for the future been radically altered by the past 18 months?

Have we become immune to these appalling statistics?

Inourpursuitof opening pubs, shops, theatres and sports stadiums (although office workers are still working from home judging by the unacceptable delays and dog walkers) are we accepting these stats as the norm?

Are our normal caring impulses and incredulity regarding these mind blowing infections irrevocably deleted?

Social distancing is a thing of the past and with winter just two months away and spring seven/ eight months distant are we sleepwalking into the winter of hell?

Is it the classic ‘it cannot happen to me’ syndrome?

My wife and I had our jabs in January and now we are told the life of the jab is probably 6 months maximum – hardly reassuring if the ‘top-up jab’ is months away. As always a plethora of experts offer contrasting views and opinions, spouting facts and figures – more professors than you can shake the proverbial stick at.

Let us all hope our leaders are organised for the winter ahead and certainly more organised and ready than for the Afghanistan shambles.

I clearly recall world leaders stating ‘the Taliban were one to three months away’ – they arrived the next weekend.

UK Health bosses’ statistical intelligence gathering is hopefully better.

Jon Cole Blount Road Portsmouth