We ventured out for a walk today, determined to do so while limited exercise away from home is still permissible.
The rural lanes on Guernsey are narrow, barely allowing sufficient space to observe ‘social-distancing’ guidelines, so when we encountered people, we took care to tip-toe round each other.
I noticed a tortoiseshell cat sitting on a wall watching us and wondered if it was aware that humans had started behaving like cats: standoffish, wary, aloof and likely to dart off if approached.
Could this be the new normal?
SOCIAL-DISTANCING
No man’s an island, wrote the Bard
nor is an island just one man:
it’s several million trying hard
to social-distance if they can.
Don’t stand, don’t stand too close to me:
sad words The Police sang anyhow.
Weirdness is now normality.
We all are social lepers now.
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