Great Western Coffee Shop

Via Bus_Lady's Facebook feed, requoted here with her permission. The message that this is so different for everyone and (still) so new - that we need to be kind, considerate and understanding bears repetition, and here on the Coffee Shop too.

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One thing I have seen over the last year on social media is everyone has their own "COVID story". Saw this on another person's timeline and had to share!

* Working parents want kids to go back to school because school closures directly impacts them.

* Teachers don?t want schools to open because covid spreading round their school directly impacts them.

* NHS staff want a full lockdown because sick covid patients directly impacts them.

* Business owners want to carry on as normal because lockdown directly impacts them.

* People with health problems want everyone to stay socially distant because catching covid could kill them.

* People with mental health problems want people to spend time with because isolation could kill them.

* Some can?t wait for a vaccine because they believe it will bring back some normality.

* Some are terrified of a vaccine because they believe it could harm them.

We are all going through this but none of us are going through the same thing. Some face crippling financial challenges, others face heart break. We don't all have to agree with what is best because what's best for us won't be best for everyone. We don't have to understand what others are going through. But we do need to stick together and keep loving each other no matter our differences. We need to be mindful when some things go the way we want it to, it could be terrible news to another person. We need to be kind.
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