Intermission: COVID and the new normal

Lockdown. Is it over? Almost over? Most would have us think so, but I know it’s nothing like the end, and although I can accept there is something called the ‘new normal’ I have no appetite for it and is it really normal? As someone comments in today’s paper, after all the fanfare of easing restrictions, life just isn’t  what is was.  So shall we just call it ‘the new’, or the ‘different’, the ‘best of a bad job?’ Social distancing by the way is another misnomer. We can be as sociable as we like...