Andy Brown writes:
After a year of restricted movements, it is hardly surprising that the mood of much of the nation is that people just want to get back to normal. There are, however, some serious problems about this. Not least of these are some very legitimate concerns over whether it was the abnormal way we were living before the pandemic that caused it to break out and to spread rapidly in the first place. The next disease to cross over from one species to another might prove even more unpleasant and attack the young or kill higher proportions of the population. Since human behaviour is believed by most scientists to have created the environmental conditions that has fostered a whole series of new diseases for humans it might make sense to avoid going straight back to bad practices.