Opportunity knocks

What is regarded as normative by some people I see as collective insanity.

Once the virus has past, will we clothe ourselves again in casinos and sports "betting", in cruise ships and socially sanctioned addictions, in behaviours of sedation and control, in the commodification of the human body to sell products, in infomercials and cosmetics and plastic surgery and fashion, in factory farms where calves are ripped from their mothers so we can drink the milk intended for them, in slaughter houses where writhing pigs are lowered in gondolas to be gassed, in casual travel to escape "boredom", in eating when we are not hungry, in the excessive consumption of useless and anxiety reinforcing 'information', in daily indoctrination into share markets and sport as weapons of mass distraction... or will the chance to realise we need none of these linger for a while? 

I hope many of us will take this opportunity to rediscover new and old ways of sharing resources, building resilient relationships and local communities, coming together, and experiencing bliss and contentment from simple pleasures that have been overlooked.