Is the mean-spirited mood of the nation lifting?

[Nihiloxica]

Under lockdown we thrived on pointing the finger at rule breakers

"A lot of this is to do with the enforcement of moral absolutism that this country thrives upon, a squirming part of our national identity that has, secretly, been hoping for a moment like coronavirus for years: an opportunity to go to the shops in a mask, see exactly one person there not in a mask, then stomp home – a combination of vindicated and smugly furious – and seethe about it all day."

I think for most it was more about not wanting to catch a horrible disease that if left unchecked would have killed 500,000 and for many of those that survive nasty ongoing side effects.

We didn’t all point the finger at rule-breakers. We didn’t get remotely steamed up about NDNs who had family round in their very small garden every weekend during lockdown.

Though I will admit to beginning to hate joggers, so many of whom would make no attempt to move - it was nearly always me - and who would come up behind me and steam past my shoulder, panting and puffing and giving not a shit.

Everyone is going to deny being ‘that’ person 😀

I think it will take a long time for the wounds caused by the lockdown Puritanism to heal.