Week 8. Adjusting. Is everyone getting a bit cranky now?
Last week I wrote about patience which I'm not sure resonated with many people. Did I miss something in the current zeitgeist? Are people feeling less patient and more irritable ? Fed up with this whole social distancing thing? Maybe cracks are appearing in our largely cohesive response to lockdown and saving lives. If our Prime Minister's senior advisor can apparently bend the rules of self-isolation, are some questioning whether to keep following guidelines? Even something "simple" such as sending children back to school is creating divisions among experts let alone parents trying to decide what is safe. A few days ago I stumbled across an article by Camilla Cavendish about how we could all be experiencing some element of "quarantine fatigue". As the phrase suggests, it is a known phenomenon where individuals in very restricted social settings become weary. Studied by scientists in remote expeditions, they found that quarantine fatigue reaches it