THE Scottish Government’s daily Covid briefings have become something of a staple in the daily ritual of the pandemic.
I’m sure my routine is fairly typical of many of us trying to work from home right now: get up, make a strong pot of coffee, sit down for a few hours of work, get the telly on in the hope of some good news from the First Minister and then venture out for a dose of fresh air and some exercise before another afternoon’s monotony sat at my kitchen table.
As the weeks go by, life in a pandemic doesn’t get any easier. But the daily reassurance of where we’re at, whether we are headed in the right direction, that the vaccination programme is well underway and that, some day, life can return to some semblance of normal gives everyone a much needed injection of sanity.