It wasn’t that long ago that there were major ructions about the ability of Big Ben to ring in special occasions (not that it ever did in the past).
It struck me today that this has disappeared into the mists of time. We have been talking about the new normal for a while, but the focus has been on how we live. Maybe we have changed our normal more than we might think, slowly, and without realising.
I have written regulations on emergency response, and taken part in emergency response. One thing I try to make clear to people is that the emergency situation is often a breach of the law. What you try to do is move toward a safe situation that is within the law. But that path to the safe legal can be outside normal law. You need to accept that normal law cannot be followed as you move along that path (which is why I always write a section to allow emergency workers to step outside normal law).
Maybe we need to accept a life we don’t agree with as we head toward a new normal. We need to remember that better will only survive if we take people with us that maybe are not quite as passionate as we are.