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Thanks for the speech, Prime Minister, but there is nothing normal about our ‘new normal’

26 May 2020

4:02 PM

26 May 2020

4:02 PM

As our world experiences vast arrays of change as a result of COVID-19, we keep hearing new phrases which albeit were unfathomable and inconceivable only a few months ago.

Slogans like ‘social distancing’ ‘self-isolating’ and ‘stay at home’ are fed to us on a daily basis from positions of power and, as a result, have become part of our everyday vocabulary.

We were told it was only to flatten the curve, yet with the curve well and truly flat, we are now told to adapt to the ‘new normal’.

These novel concepts dictate this ‘new normal’ but one is left bewildered as to...

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