Perspective: Our Greatest Weapon In Fight Against Fear

Across the world, people are stressed, anxious, riddled with worry and concern. Businesses are falling over. People are locking themselves indoors to hide from a silent assassin. What’s the real killer here: Covid 19 or a carefully created pandemic of paranoia and panic?

WAY back in March, when the media reports first started to trickle out about the global pandemic, sweeping the world with Death’s borrowed cloak and scythe, I was one of the first to lock down.

I finished a running training programme, on the evening of March 18, and didn’t leave my house again until I needed to take my car for its MOT, on June 12.

Even after that, my ventures beyond the front door were few and far between. I didn’t go for those Government-endorsed daily walks, just in case. My dogs were happy enough playing ball in the garden.

Eventually, I ventured out more and more.

My car needed a service as well. That meant a second garage trip. Fairly safe: one other person in the waiting room, face masks, screens between us and the skeleton crew, keys disinfected before being given back.