Covid confusion and the vagaries of values

The covid wars continue unabated, with border closures mid-flight and arguments about whether a cluster is the same as a hotspot? For some people, three is a cluster. Has any cricket commentator ever referred to the “cluster” of stumps behind the batter? A new more virulent strain arrives, and suddenly masks are a good thing but then again…. maybe not.

Confusion and turmoil reign supreme; all this depends on what state we’re in, or what part of that state — or when. And now the imminent arrival of a vaccine gives us all something else to fight about. Which one to use, if at all, and who goes first? What’s more important, our health or our businesses? 

Whatever happened to virtue? Once upon a time, virtues (or…