An Interesting Summer Ahead.

 The crowds, they have been gathering...

We have all seen it. We all couldn't believe it and we all for a moment wondered if we had entered the twilight zone. The crowds. Normally not worth an extra mention but due to our corona deprivation suddenly the pinnacle of socializing and stupidity.

The Euro 2020 tournament is almost over, but what has drawn more focus and censure than some of the soccer played were the crowds. Big crowds, no mask and hardly any social distancing. Give it a few weeks.

Yesterday, as nice as it was to watch the Austrian Grand Prix, the more perplexing it was to again see hordes of people totally ignoring social distancing and corona etiquette. Yes, so many have been vaccinated but so have those stricken by the Delhi variant. Makes one think.

Can it be that a couple of weeks of sporting events exploited to the fullest for every inch of money to be earned is going to send us straight back into another lockdown? Why, buy why couldn't it have just been shown on television? Yes, I know I am being a cup half empty person at the moment, but giving up being at a live tournament, concert or club is well worth it if it gains us a winter of some normality. 

Look I do hope I am wrong and that the variant won't have settled itself into the comfy lap of thousands of sports mad fans. Perhaps we have had a lucky escape and have shown the corona virus out the door for good...yet I am still hoping that most people will be reasonable and careful this summer and think of the common good instead of their own little celebration lasting a few hours but having the potential to affect us all for months.

Biggi