Robert Peston Robert Peston

The return to ‘normal life’ is going to be fiendishly complex

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Welcome to C Day – where the ‘C’ stands for the ‘complexity’ of living with coronavirus. Because when the prime minister announces the return to something like normal living today, our revised way of life will feel anything but normal, and also bloomin’ complicated.

For example, we’ll be able to have friends or family inside our houses again. But NOT friends and family from different households at any one time, just those from one household at a time. And we won’t be allowed to hug, and we can continue to socialise with up to five people from different households if we are outside. And if we live alone and we visit a household in a nominated bubble we will be able to hug.

It is the kind of systemic complexity that only young people with their flexible minds would be able to understand – or at least they would if their education had not been suspended.

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