Covid’s first wave was the unknown.

Unquestionably those of my generation and older and or those with vulnerabilities who became infected during the first wave and were admitted to hospital had a very bad time. We knew they would. The reaction of Governments here and around the world made sense. Lockdowns, travel bans quarantines & shielding though sometimes illogical in both timing and application did help to ameliorate some of the impact on overwhelmed medical services as they did their best to deal with the effects peculiar to this virus.

Pandemic is what Covid-19 is become. It will likely kill, at least contribute to or factor in the deaths of millions of people before being mastered (hopefully) by massive (and safe) vaccination programs around our world. Having said that, there is a BUT. This virus, while dangerous to older and vulnerable people would appear not to be the mass extinction event forecast and predicted. It is not a ‘Black Death’, hopefully not a ‘Spanish Flu’ or an ‘Ebola’. Mortality rates among certain groups are high while others are barely aware that they have been infected.

Here is my confession; I was scared, well, seriously concerned that I would be infected during the first wave. With more than one ‘vulnerability’ and treatment being rudimentary I thought it likely that I could be ‘triaged’ into the line to the backdoor. If the infection rate and more importantly hospitalisations and death rates in this second and any subsequent wave soar even close to first wave numbers my concerns will be reignited even though that is, in my (layman’s) opinion, extremely unlikely.

I am though, dumfounded by Government Policy. The first wave, unpredictable, virtually untreatable and massively disruptive was almost welcomed in by Government, or at least by delayed and inadequate responses. While Covid jetted it’s way round the planet, ravaged southern Europe and Alpine Resorts vacationers and globe trotting travelers were welcomed home without regard to their potential exposure and Soccer’s International fans welcomed here with open arms. Then Lockdown, whether March 16 or March 23 society was ‘switched off’ for most of three months.

I’m not inclined to be overly critical of Government performance early on in the ‘crisis’. Other than being a bit slow to react and more than a bit heavy-handed I recognise the difficulties faced by both bureaucrats and Ministers. The rapid spread and the outrageous predictions promulgated by Scientists and their computer models made even the most hardy and hard-hearted politicians gulp and blink. So, within the space of a month, along with most of the Western, Developing and Third World we were, in effect, placed under house arrest.

Because this Chinese Wuhan Virus had been regarded and treated as an embarrassment to the Chinese Communist Regime its nature, character and effects were deemed a State Secret by those paranoids, word only got out after it reached epidemic proportions. Exported globally even while the Regime banned travel between Wuhan and the rest of China.

So, after another three months of lockdown and having had my first (but not my second) Covid vaccination I’m waiting to find out about how I’ll be required (under pain of yet more Covid Law) to provide proof of my Covid status; to whom, when and how.
At this point I’m unable to see how or why I would be willing to accept this “Covid Passport”. I’m being driven inexorably towards civil disobedience if not yet civil or indeed uncivil protest.