I hadn’t realised that church services were starting again until I jogged past on Sunday morning. There was obviously pent-up demand for communal worship and I guess that the average church-goer’s age means many will have already been jabbed. But the crowds heading in to both the service and neighbouring Sunday school did, alas, make me think ‘Lockdown 4’ rather than ‘happy release’. Let’s hope Boris & Co. have factored in the ‘most drive at 40mph in a 30mph zone’ factor.
Here’s the flip side. Should a business not have the right to choose whom it serves? If you as a client, or more likely potential client, rub us up the wrong way, are a declared anti-vaxxer or support the barges, can we not, as a business, say ‘Be Gone’?
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.