What about the workers?

It was bound to come. This kind of unreal honeymoon where we are all, in some strange suffering way, in it together couldn’t be expected to last. The men with money are beginning to feel restless, and offering warnings about workers getting too cosy in their current idleness, and needing top be weaned off the baby’s milk of furlough support which a kind - but probably misguided - government has been offering. In other words, getting back to normal means returning to situation in which a small number of rich people have total say about how and when a large number of poor people will contribute their labour. That’#s life, some will say, but it’s also death, as we’ve learn in far too many cases over the past month, where poorly paid people have been refused protective equipment and been pressured into working in dangerous conditions which have then killed them. It’s not usually brought home to us as clearly as that, but in this instance - as in so many others - Covid is spelling out the truth with a thick black marker - and we really ought to be paying attention before we simply say “sure. Let’s go back to how things were.” Interesting times.