COVID has not only made many people more insular, it has also made a number of them either blind to reality or complete fantasists!

My wife and I were walking in the local park last Sunday when we stepped aside to allow a man and his dog to pass.

‘’Are you ok?’’ he asked, looking at us as though we had grown two heads.

‘’Yes, we are social distancing owing to Covid,’’ my wife replied. ‘’Oh that’s rubbish, there’s no covid. It was never here, it’s completely GONE’’.

And he continued: ‘’I suppose you people will be having the vaccine?’’

We replied: ‘’Yes, won’t you?’’

‘’Oh no I won’t’’.

These are the sort of puddled answers that will keep the deadly virus around for a very long time, answers from totally stupid people.

There are also those who are, as I mentioned earlier so insular that they think nothing of walking, four abreast along the park paths, forcing us to step aside without so much as a word of thanks.

I also want to refer to the cyclists who creep up behind us.

All they are after is the ‘NO BELL’ prize!!

Their exertions are more likely to spread Covid than almost anyone else, but their selfishness knows no bounds.

Common courtesy all but disappeared in 2020, as has common sense.

Why are so many people in complete denial?

Finally many thanks to the person who dumped his family’s Christmas present boxes in Sherdley Park.

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