If we learn anything from the lockdown, it might be a better understanding of our over-dependence on a global economy and the impact this has on our economic stability and values. In a perfect world, our return to normal life should be an altogether different journey with a national celebration and reward for those who helped make society work. A rejection of our facetious fascination with celebrities, footballers and those with overpaid non-jobs.
Instead, let there be a public reappraisal of our attitude to critical workers: doctors and nurses and the low paid people who bolster our infrastructure such as supermarket staff, delivery drivers, postmen, bus and train drivers, taxis, park keepers, binmen, community volunteers and, of course, school and nursery staff.
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