JUST A THOUGHT

Pirate FM station director, Mark Peters, still can’t get a parking space in Asda.

THE COVID EFFECT

I find myself thinking about the past 18 months in disbelief at what has actually happened and how much has changed during this time. Some of these changes may never reverse and maybe, in part, that’s a good thing. But I think it’s incredible that such a dramatic event in our lifetimes could have provoked so many intricate twists and turns in the way we live and work. Those that know me well will also know that I prefer a lighter outlook on life, deep and dark strategic philosophy isn’t on my CV! Having spent time as a first responder for a few years a while back, I also had my eyes opened to the vulnerabilities of us mere mortals in the most sad and tragic of ways sometimes. but I have to say the medical chaos and narrative surrounding at least the first wave of Covid-19 was something of a shock for me. This seems completely naïve now in hindsight, but I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that the UK’s top medical minds would have instantly come up with a medicine or a treatment that would have just knocked Covid out of the park before any of us even caught it. The fact we were building additional hospitals and racing against the clock to buy ventilators to keep as many sufferers alive as possible was a genuine shock to me. Surely medical science was better than this? Surely a microscopic virus couldn’t actually do this on a global scale..? I guess its new lesson for me and maybe a lot more of us in the fact that we aren’t as medically robust as we thought we might have been.

THE POWER OF OPINION

I’m not going to open up a debate on Covid here, everyone is entitled to their own medical and political opinions on it, what I will say is I have never unfollowed so many people in such a short space of time on all the social platforms I engage with. Some of the content has been at best highly entertaining but at worst downright scary! I have seen the media blamed for pretty much everything over the last two years, as a local station we have been very proud of the relevant, timely and accurate information that we have served Cornwall with, we even launched our own “Cornwall Superblog” to keep Cornwall informed and entertained during those initial long lockdown days. I re-tasked almost our entire workforce to produce content for this site and interact and signpost help to our audiences and I am very proud of what my team of Pirates did during that time whilst also dealing with their own Covid chaos.

I have seen the I think individuals underestimate the power of media blamed influence they have themselves, especially in disruptive times within their social circles and for pretty much that’s something to really look out for. everything over the WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? last two years It’s not until you take a minute to really reflect on the last 18 months that you get a sense of just how much has changed and those impacts are still cascading out like the waves at Fistral! The changes have been so widespread for all of us I guess we all have a slightly different view, or path or mission now. I don’t have a grand philosophical end to this piece I’m sorry so I’ll leave you with this I think individuals thought that Covid-19 pretty much means underestimate everyone in the country is going to be the power of holidaying in Cornwall for a while longer and influence they have I can’t get parked themselves in Asda, plus I’m concerned I am never going to lose my new addiction to buying small bottles of nice smelling hand sanitiser. Cheers everyone.