#agovernment

The pandemic hasn’t and isn’t easy for anyone, least of all for those who are high risk and/or who deal with a mental illness, of which I deal with both.

I have and continue to struggle, particularly around the decisions that have been made, decisions that have and continue to leave me in a worse mental place. Although it will have been difficult for any residing government to get their decisions right, caring about others and wanting to put others first, is the first step.

If the UK government did care, they’ve got a funny way of showing it, and if they do care, different decisions will have been made. The pandemic isn’t finished and if it is finished, why have scientists now brought a new vaccine out? Just because we want to believe something is happening, doesn’t mean that thing is happening.

The UK is choosing to accept the pandemic is finished, because it’s something they’re desperate to see happen. I have heard it said so many times by those close to me that the pandemic is finished and yet the scientists have told us the pandemic is here to stay; now on our part, we should behave as if it is.

I am high risk, and like thousands of others who are also high risk, I am being told that my life ‘doesn’t matter’ that I ‘don’t matter.’ And although the UK government haven’t quite come out with those words, their actions belie the fact that they don’t care.

The pandemic hasn’t gone and yet, with all precautionary measures now lifted in the UK and the fact that the UK government are choosing not to talk about the virus any more, it seems for many it has gone. In practice of course, the virus is very much alive and kicking.

In the UK at this point we can’t change governments, but we can change how we individually go about our lives in the pandemic, not only to support our loved ones, but to equally realise, there are others that need our support, for those like myself who are four-walled, and until common sense prevails, we are locked in our homes.

So, please remember to face hands space. The slogan the UK government came up with initially, to help send the pandemic on its way. Without continuing to face, hands space, as we’re seeing cases are continuing to rise, the virus can continue to mutate and those high risk, like me, shall continue to be locked in our homes.