It’s taken nearly 100 years for war hero Captain Tom Moore to realise that walking around his garden is no walk in the park but in doing so has raised £15m to date for the NHS. The Confetti Chancellor has told Tom that he’s going to be Knighted on condition that he redirects the money raised to the Treasury so that he can pay everyone’s wages at the end of the month.
Tom is no slouch and he has led the charge in raising money in the midst of crisis. Other stars are singing and working out on TV while one Welsh cyclist is pedalling 12 hours constantly in his garage on a journey to nowhere. True character is forged in crisis and it is interesting to see the reaction of people. The cost to the economy is we are told going to be enormous so much so that we all need to start walking around our gardens to pay for it. If the full lockdown is 6 weeks why don’t we just cancel summer holidays and all knuckle down to work.
The death toll though bad is nowhere near the figure first given by Professor Ferguson out of Imperial indeed I reckon he will be tenfold inaccurate ( so much for models and maths ). Bring back the pencil with rubber on top for the errors that need to be inevitably erased. Captain Tom is living up to his name and producing Moore and Moore for the NHS. It’s worth asking what we can all do for the country at this time. The national spirit has been exemplary and there will come a time again when boring old normal will return and we will all be released by our Government, unleashed and United again.
I doubt if life will be ever the same again and I doubt very much if we will need all those shops and office buildings. I doubt if people will want to take out a mortgage to board trains to work or fly far away but enjoy holidays at home. People talking to each other could be a new pastime or families having real life discussions again. Churches might wake to the fact that they need to do more for everyone’s spiritual welfare and depart from trying to be social clubs and keep asking for funds to meet their man made programmes. We need to always pray not always pay.
As we clap today for the NHS clap also for all of us and give ourselves a pat on the back for being part of a new future envisaged by few and an unforeseen in the great event called life.
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