We are fatigued by it. Memes can jovially poke fun at the situation referencing and comparing that what was asked of wartime Britain to us being asked to watch box sets and stay in...but it’s not as simple as that. We carry the worry of debt, being forced to work in a hazardous environment in some cases or in an impossible one in others where home working just doesn’t quite fit your working model. We are also quite ‘woke’ as a nation and over-informed and even misled by MS and social media so we are aware that the post-Covid situation could be catastrophic to our mental and physical wellbeing.
The most fatiguing factor for me is the wealth and breadth of the unknown. You can plan on some assumptions but this situation offers a gulf of them around cures, vaccines, immunity, duration, mutation, side effects etc. Then non-medical unknowns like the public appetite to move, travel, trade, spend and invest once they are told it’s safer to move around...so much noise that it’s increasingly difficult to focus on the basic task of just staying in.
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