The public sector not-a-mandate seems to have quietly fizzled at the same time that the Ministry of Education has reaffirmed its commitment to bringing the lower Forms and Standard 5s back out to school early next month.
In a society in which people cared about each other, preparing to live with a deadly virus would mean doing what’s necessary to protect each other from it. A society founded in common sense would recognise that individuals can’t prosper if society collapses.
I have to ask what it is Trinbagonians really want at this point of the neverending shitshow. The hard truth that our big, hardback, 59-year-old nation needs to fully face is that this is a PANdemic and it is not over.
At this point in the pandemic, isn’t it time to finally pull our heads out of our collective backsides and actually work together on this?
Meet the new normal. Same as the old normal. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? Imagine, if you will, a world that makes sense. Stick with me, now…