Travelling on a different track

Subject: Traveling on a different track.

What I don't understand is how gullible the politicians take us for. I have just been watching the daily news conference in which a visiting expert is announcing a fall in the cases of Corona virus recorded each day as if this is some sort of corner turned and a win, in our effort to reverse the death toll.
Yes of course the cases are coming down, we are all in lockdown, holed up at home, industry's closed, shops closed, holiday destinations and any means of recreation virtually closed, is it any wonder then that the cases and deaths are dwindling, as we sit at home paralysed, our economy paralysed and as we start the economy going again we also know that the the virus will also get going again and cases and the death toll will rise.
Perhaps after the initial panic and shock in February and the unprecedented reaction to covert 19, the natural response, to pull out all the stops and gain time to analyse what we had had and if there was a way forward. There was a lull and most people enjoyed the enforced break and the loverly weather which accompanied it. With the foot off the throttle we found new ways to entertain ourselves and perhaps find ourselves, out of the hurly-burly of normal life, a bit like boarding a large passenger liner to sail half way around the world with nothing to do all day but walk the promenade deck, eat three good meals a day and party into the early house. It was of course at the expense of the National Exchequer, the monthly make up on wages lost, a problem for the Chancellor. After all they had found the money to bail out the banks in 2008, why not us.
Of course reality is that soon the ship will dock and we are forced to descend to the quay side where the hustle and bustle of real life awaits us, of finding our own way,  much like finding our feet  as we go back to work.
It seems that until a vaccination is developed and this may take years, we are going to have to get on with living and dying with this scourge, always at our elbow. The upbeat announcements by the politicians don't get this message across instead they talk of the partial medical success's but not in any detail, the unsustainable cost, we talk of reversing the trend of the pandemic  but not of the toll on the economy.

The Churchillian phrases such as "we will beat them on the beaches" come to mind as people get back to work but so will the virus. The panic this time will be replaced with a pragmatic view that maybe a certain death toll is a price worth paying afterall, it won't be me and if it is me, the result won't kill me. Different graphs will be drawn, more upbeat announcement's, not of beating but accepting the death toll will be the set piece of the political sideshow as we human-beings re-assess our future, balancing the cultural and physical needs against the awful spectre  of the struggle going on in the hospital wards which may become merely an assist to making death as palatable as they can.
For those at risk the decision is quite easy, stay at home and develop a lifestyle around your home and garden, (if your lucky enough o have one). Always to be on your guard and recognise that the years you have left (because we are talking mainly of the aged) can be just as precious, it's that we are traveling on a different track to everyone else.