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How do Boy-scouts, Brexit and Covid fit together? Some real news from the UK and how to treat possible bad news in your relationship
I’m strangely calm now.
Four months ago I started preparing. We bought sleeping bags in case the heating should go out (they were predicting rolling blackouts). Bit by bit I have bought food that I don’t even need to cook but is durable (nuts, dried fruit, you get the idea). Some extra toilet paper, soap, toiletries. Brexit is supposed to happen on last of December. And “winter is coming…”
I can be calm because I’m prepared.
I laugh now at the news and I do, believe me, I’m laughing my ass off. Not because I think the tragedy is funny but because people are so freaking surprised at the events happening right now. This was so predictable! Granted, the new virus variant accelerated the circumstances for two weeks, but that’s all. And given that we are dealing with a pandemic, I always anticipated the Black Swan. Have you ever read the book? The man had a point. Being surprised at a crash of the market (which happens every 10 years at least) or that a hurricane passes through (even though it does that every year in the Caribbean), is simply moronic.
But even when there is no foreseeable bad event on the horizon, it is just common sense to expect the…
