Comment: COVID - if we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere ...


The delivery of the first vaccines was the day that the darkness started to lift.
The first health workers have now had the first of two injections, and the biggest vaccination programme of modern times is set to be rolled out across the winter months into 2021.
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Hide AdIt would have been the perfect week had Fife also been taken out of Level 3 at the start of the countdown to Christmas, but we have to wait, hopefully for only a short spell.
David Ross, co leader of Fife Council, hinted the region may yet move before the festive season – but that can only happen if everyone plays their part to supress the virus.
The journey through lockdown has been painful and protracted – more so than we could ever have imagined back in March when the pandemic first hit.
The human cost has been grievous.
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Hide AdFamilies with loved ones in care homes have suffered in ways that were simply unimaginable at the start of 2020. The arrival of the vaccine gives them hope for 2021, but it can never restore the precious time they lost this summer and autumn.
In announcing the arrival of a vaccine, the First Minister recalled the words of Irish poet, Seamus Heaney which have been quoted more than once in this most extraordinary and disruptive of years.
“If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere”
At last, we have hope that we can.