There are a lot of people who have had their income cut short, but the government are managing to support many of them. But there is one group that are without support. not only that – but if they choose to continue to work they are taking enormous risks. That group are burglars – house breakers.
Just think about it – with everybody staying at home they have a stark choice. They can stop earning as one option. But the other option is to risk waking the inhabitants of the house, who may be infected. And it gets worse – the pubs are closed, so how do they pass on their stolen goods?
But there is a serious side to this. There are sub-cultures in our society that are outside of “normal” legal behaviour. Some of them are at much greater risk because of it. There are people who have a habit that they have been unable to break (and I am not taking about cigarettes). During this crisis they will still be trying to feed that habit, and if that is on the wrong side of the law it will be very hard to social distance. If you want to know something about how they are being looked after in Swansea keep up to date with https://twitter.com/ZacsPlace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3AZacsPlace&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zacsplace.org%2F
The numbers across the country keep rising. Sometimes it can seem surreal, like a movie (yes I watched Contagion the other night and it did look like it was modeled on what is happening). Then it happens, one of the numbers is changed to the name of somebody you know and it isn’t a movie anymore. This is happening to a lot of people right now, and it will happen to a lot more. Get ready for it. This isn’t just about people dying, this is about friends and family that you cannot be with when they are ill.
One thing I have decided to try is to set up a few on-line meetings for Sunday called Sunday Sanity meetings. So you might get an invite from me this week or next week to join. I can’t guarantee you will know the people in the meeting, but hey – this could be fun. PM me if it piques your interest.