Friday, March 12, 2021

Reminders of Memento Mori and Mortality

 So for Londoners the anniversary of Pandemic and various Lockdown seems to be on or around now.

I wonder if Johnson's Government have taken a view that while many of the population have not been directly  impacted by multiple deaths they are still  able to dictate an  agenda and their response has been 'in the National Interest' ?

Well I am  certainly far more conscious, in the last 12 months  of mortality and have lost friends and relations over the year not necessarily from Covid but memorials and services were not as they would normally have been and it feels as if there may have been contributory Pandemic  factors in there as well.

What does this mean - does it make the profiting by some seem immoral, are we who have so far not been ill duty bound to acknowledge  the imbalance of those who have suffered mentally or physically from the onslaught?

Some Tory Ministers have signalled regret but none (that I'm aware of) have felt able to say that they should have done better and  that they regret that the Health service has not been funded as it should have been.  


I personally have felt uncomfortable with the appearance of so many 'Union Jack' bedecked  home offices, and I am pleased to see that these are no longer so common.



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