Will It Be Conquered By Next Year?

 The quest at corona's behest.

At first most of us thought it might be a couple of months, three at the most to have it all under control. Far from it and now that I think about it, the only constant in all the pandemic was and is human behaviour.

By rights, if all of us were on lock-down for such a long time, it should have broken the transmission chain, but then not all of us were on lock-down or adhered to it. Not to mention the lure of summer holidays. Where on earth  is it written that we need to have a holiday away? We should have been thankful for any chance of a holiday and then  spent it in our own four walls, our own gardens or our own countries.

Europe is looking at the unwelcome arc of the pandemic's pendulum swing and frankly, aren't we to blame? Holidays abroad, many demonstrations, many family functions ( oh, it's just our family and we are all fine!!! ), illegal parties during summer and lack of the easy three precautions. Keeping distance, wearing masks and washing hands.

What got me started on this line of thought was seeing a memo on Facebook about how to behave at Deutsch Schützen's soccer game. Yes, this afternoon a league match is being played with spectators allowed. How many I am not sure about, but be there they will. 

Vaccines are on the horizon but will they be efficient enough to counter this pandemic? If all of us would take more care and be more in tune for  a few months, then surely we could put the lid back on the bottle and carry on. 

Soon most European countries will have their autumn school holidays and I just hope and pray that people will stay at home. Just this once...

Biggi