Social distancing

Is it the politics of resentment to notice that the Royals are hunkering down in their various separate palaces ?

Is it sour grapes to notice that while the man in the street is told to go home and stay there, Prince Charles has travelled to his Balmoral Estate, far away from his first home at Highgrove ?

Or that the Cambridges are safely tucked away on their country estate ?

This is serious social distancing.

The trouble is that this particular family is distanced from ordinary people by an unbridgeable chasm.

Having social distancing Mk I for the plebs, and social distancing MkII for the pampered elites only points up the need for more focused social justice.

The virus has little respect for boundaries of property, class, nation or religion. Perhaps we needed an equaliser like the virus to remind us that ordinary people matter. Without them, the elites might actually have to do some work.