Cheltenham

 

For me this is the cartoon that illustrates most vividly how our response to the virus  can change because I knew exactly what I was thinking back then. This was drawn in the second week of March when the Cheltenham festival was allowed to go ahead despite the fact that 60,000 people would be congregating each day for five days. I myself had tickets and thought that catching the virus unlikely enough and if I did: So what? It would only involve a few days of discomfort plus the beneficial acquisition of immunity. And like Jeremy above I would get a bed before overcrowding arrived.

The fact that now very few of the ‘non-young’ would now willingly place themselves at  risk in such a way illustrates how much our views can change and it should be useful to remember this when making judgements about what was done in the past as the ‘facts’ have been, and still are, changing all the time.