Profoundly optimistic about life after lockdown
Whoever would have thought that we would experience anything like this? Lives under threat, many of us locked in our homes with children under our feet. These are, by any measure, extraordinary times. Despite the inherent fear and the limitations I, along with many others, am profoundly optimistic about the lessons we are learning during this time and the changes this is likely to bring as we rebuild our lives, businesses, communities, country and global politics after COVID 19. Let me start by being very clear; I am not making light of our current predicament. Lockdown is causing exceptional financial suffering and worry for many. Isolation is taking its toll on mental wellbeing. The virus we are hiding from is creating fear and threatening lives. The latter point is personal to me; Rachel, my wife, is a doctor leading one of the busiest A&E Departments in the country. Every day she puts her life at risk to save others. I carry a constant fear for her safety in the p...