AS each day passes, the danger is more and more complacency sets in.
Some are assuming, as deaths are low and we are not at the height of the pandemic like we were in April, that it is all over.
I have heard that phrase a lot this week and I don't know what is causing it to gain traction.
Could it be celebrities are fuelling it such as Denise Welch saying there is scaremongering going on, or Mark Dolan (some z-list comedian) cutting up a mask and saying we should "get back to normal".
Let's get this straight - the pandemic is far from over.
The reason we have reached this point and turned the tide was a combination of lockdown, social distancing, mask wearing and better hygiene practises.
A strict lockdown was right to be loosened, but if we abandoned the rest we would be back to square one.
Not recognising Coronavirus for what it is, the worst health crisis in 100 years, leads to disaster.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began there have been more than 65,000 excess deaths across the UK. That is with a lockdown and the measures taken.
Just imagine what the figure would have been if we had not acted last spring. It does not bear thinking about where we would be.
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And that is the problem we have now because some want exactly that; 'normal' rather than the 'new normal'.
But they have short memories and it doesn't help with mixed government messaging, such as the back to work push.
In some workplaces it is impossible to social distance a full office.
The more people on public transport, the more chance the virus spread.
These things aren't difficult to work out.
Why waste all the hard work that got us to this point?
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