On top of this, these teachers have – when the children have gone home – had to work tirelessly to come up with a comprehensive home schooling plan, to give out to panicked parents. Those who can, teach – and now seems like a good time to remember that.
My friends Laura and Helena
…and all the other frontline NHS workers out there. This should go without saying, obviously, but I feel I should give special mention to Helena, who as well as being a doctor, is also the mother of a wonderful eight year old boy with complex special needs, who she now needs to isolate for 12 weeks. Shout out, then, to all the unpaid carers, the people who are working and trying to protect vulnerable loved ones. We must remember them, and do all we can to support them.
Hassan the postman, and all his Royal Mail colleagues
Hassan delivered me my contact lenses yesterday. He stood by the garden gate and told me that should we need anything during this surreal time, we only had to ask. “We are here for the community,” he smiled, before going on his way cheerfully.
Every single delivery driver out there
Thanklessly lugging rolls of loo paper and tins of tomatoes to your door, without once making any judgement about the British propensity to stockpile in a crisis. Just imagine how hard they must be biting their tongues! I mean, the self-restraint that must involve.