The start of a recovery

 

Well, a break's a good as a rest they say as last weeks time helped in recovering from the psychological impact of covid and the restrictions, learning to feel comfortable with interactions that were so common place we seldom thought about them  but were off limits.

Things that also helped were the Olympics that like the Euros with much you could involved with following although they were and are constrained by restrictions due to Japan's current infection rates just because you could see people who had themselves struggled with training apart from the stuff we all did give it their all and winning

Britain's Sky Brown competed in the women's skateboarding at the age of thirteen despite the challenges of a serious injury last year and won a bronze, helping to take our country to sixth on the medal standings which is a good going and something as Britons we can be proud of.

With care we can put what we've been through to one side and move towards recovery and one thing that will help to deal with the problem of disrupted education for our children was the announcement on Wednesday Children of sixteen to eighteen (in other words sixth formers and college students) and those who are vulnerable (or have vulnerable parents, grandparents in the same household).

Given in a sixth form form personal experience you have eighteen year and sometimes nineteen year olds in the same classes who in other respects are classed as adults and that their bodies are at very much the same including abilities to transmit and catch covid that makes sense.

Alterations on the guidance about who needs to self isolate also should help as in a good many instances  whole groups were and not just those who tested positive for the virus.

Across wider society the issue of the over sensitive NHS covid app 'pinging' people whose contact was so brief they were unlikely to had caught it was eventually tackled although I do feel this could of been foreseen as absolute case numbers are of less of a concern  not least for those who have been double vaccinated so an initial rise was not the worry it was.

Actually overall the the infection rate is dropping off which may mean we are past the peak of the so-called Third Wave of the virus.

Things while not quite being where they were are a bit more normal with cause for hope we can live with it rather than feeling locked in.