Today is a nondescript day. The weather is nondescript:

Nondescript weather

And my activities have been nondescript. Not that I have been twiddling my thumbs. I have kept busy throughout but nothing worth recounting.

We did go out but only briefly. This was when Tigger went to do the shopping that she had not done when she was feeling unwell over the weekend.

Chapel Market
Photo by Tigger

Tigger took this photo in Chapel Market while she was shopping. It shows an increase in the number of stalls over the relatively small attendance shown in my photo yesterday. More shops were open too.

As is usual when Tigger goes shopping, we rendezvoused at Jusaka where we bought coffee to carry home.

Busier than ever

While waiting for the coffee to be dispensed, I had time to take a quick photo of the crossroads area from the doorway. In terms of both vehicles and pedestrians, it was busier than ever, almost like “normal” times.

Our impression is that a majority of people have given up even the pretence of social distancing and are behaving as though the pandemic had never happened. On our way home we passed a bus stop and no one was wearing a mask despite Transport for London making and publicising a rule that masks are to be worn on all public transport.

Queueing outside shops is still in operation in some cases but, I suspect, only where the shop managers are themselves insisting on this.

The public seems oblivious to the fact that the disease is still with us and new cases are still arising. Their behaviour means that if a resurgence were to occur, as it easily could, we could be thrust back into the dark days of lockdown.

In mitigation, I would say that the lack of firm leadership from the government is partly to blame.