Enjoying what's left of summer

Subject: Enjoying what's left of summer.

As a nation we prepare this weekend to go back to work hoping that by practicing social distancing we won't become infected by Covid 19 and, if we do our bodies will handle it as it does most disease. The dice is soon to be thrown and we will soon find out whether our medical experts know enough to take the chance.
We can't of course extend the lock down indefinitely, money doesn't grow on trees and we've spent enough already that it will take years of economic adjustment to balance the books.
The people I feel sorry for in this back to work saga are the front line workers in the hospitals, the ones dealing with the patients who have the virus and are succumbing to lung failure. These shattered front line workers who have only just now started to feel the easing in admissions, driven by the draconian decision to close a nation down and tell it to stay indoors. This was not a solution just a palliative sticking plaster to halt the scourge whilst we considered what our options were. The medics were at one point near breaking point and are the weakest part of the elastic holding things together.
I hope the government have not been swayed by the public clapping not have put into place a greatly expanded system, particularly the nurses and doctors trained to cope with the dying. We must expect a second wave and the R factor to go out beyond 2. We must expect the ambulances and the wards to fill. We must expect the trauma to return but in manageable proportion so that our professionals can come and go to work in sufficient numbers that each day death from the corona virus is treated as the norm and not as a daily crisis.
Death and the acute form it takes seems limited to a certain segment of society and not the whole. Perhaps that part of society, the old and those with a respiratory weakness will have to stay in lock down indefinitely. They will have to wait until a vaccine is found before being invited out. Luckily as far as the aged are concerned their age tends to limit them anyway in so far as leaving home is concerned, they are most likely retired and don't need to be out earning a living and there could be a focus on their needs and their fragility way beyond our cursory insistence that we care for the elderly.
Care homes should be nationalised once again and not be places for the rich pickings of an investor. The investment should come from the public purse and must be ring fenced towards that section of society who are most at risk. Only then can we morally sit back and say we have things under control and the economy can resume its merry way.
What we mustn't do is to invite crisis back into the hospital ward and expect others to cope with our lack of resource planning. We were woefully unprepared and Government shut its eyes to what needed to be done, we prevaricated and left the politicians in charge to make things up as they went along.
This brief respite and the knowledge we have gained must be put to good use and maybe, just maybe we might enjoy whats left of summer.