Where do you draw the furlough line? Who should take cuts? The game, like society, is struggling for answers
There are two parallel worlds right now. The first is those in the heart of this crisis. The Prime Minister fighting for his life. The heroic out-of-retirement doctors going back and not returning. The underpaid nurses leaving behind families. The care workers, the bus drivers, the victims – those final breaths surrounded by ventilator machines and masks instead of wives, husbands and children. The news. The three lecterns, the Skyping journalists, the sheer numbers lost – they start to become almost meaningless when they get so high.
The second world is the rest of us. The lucky ones. Untouched directly – so far. Each with our own petty lockdown frustrations. Zooming permanently out-of-shot parents, dodging joggers who hurtle round blind corners, the endless washing up. Eye-rolling at people out in parks complaining about other people who are out in parks.
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