Thank you NHS, and here are some other people we need to thank…
25 May 2020
Dear LPG,
One thing that I have noticed is that no one on this site, so far, has thanked the NHS, and the other many key workers for their contribution to protecting us from Covid-19 and keeping this really odd time in all our lives as normal as possible. So I would like to be the first.
But I think that there are a couple of groups of unsung heroes that no one has acknowledged even though their contribution was offered a long time before the word Coronavirus was ever conceived.
Being caught in self-isolation has been really hard for so many of us and, as the media continues to remind us, keeping in contact with each other has been, and continues to be, the key to getting through this for all of us, and I think particularly those who have been locked down on their own.
I cannot imagine what it would have been like if there were no telephones. I know that I have depended on mine every day since we all found ourselves avoiding our front doors and I don’t know what I would have done without it. The television has also kept me sane, and quite often the programmes and news have helped me to pass the time and provided me with topics to talk to my friends about during those telephone calls.
I know that not all the people who read the contents of the LPG website can use a tablet, laptop, or computer without some help but, I bet that those who can, have spent a fair amount of time online, reading all manner of information from websites like this one or writing down their thoughts to send off to their friends and family.
So while we are thanking people, and even though, many of these people will never even hear the words Covid-19 or Coronavirus, lets offer a little thanks to the many people who along with Alexander Graham Bell who invented the telephone, Robert Elliot Kahn who contributed greatly to the invention of the internet, John Logie Baird whose brainchild was the television and all the people who have contributed to the evolution of these things which we now so take for granted when it comes to communication.
So many in the world are feeling the boredom and frustration of lockdown but imagine how much worse it would be if we did not have these tools to help us through.
RL, Norwood
