YGTV’s article series continues - each month, David Sanchez will review military visits to the Rock. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge and photographic skills, the articles will provide readers with valuable background facts to the aircraft and vessels that pop into the Rock.
By David Sanchez
As we live through our first full month in lockdown, there has not been as significant a drop in military movements to Gibraltar as one would suppose. Plenty has happened in and around our territorial limits to keep the enthusiast happy and in at least one case somewhat frustrated!
This week began with the Workers’ Memorial Day and it will end with May Day. Our current pandemic reality has cost the lives of so many essential workers. While nobody is immune to the virus, it has had an outweighed effect on the poorest neighbourhoods and on frontline workers, as well as the global south. In the UK, we know that many healthcare workers, in a National Health Service already stripped bare, have faced their death. When one’s labour is costing one’s life, it is time to sound the alarm bells. The new reality that emerges after the pandemic must come to terms with this relationship. The first place to start is re-thinking the economy, and therefore politics, at a foundational level.
Here I am writing to you all from my cave/sitting room.It's been interesting you know, living through a worldwide pandemic, these are the things I used to see in movies and be like “bahahah ni chan”. Oh boi, oh boi, oh boi was I wrong.
Anyways dudes I’m not here to make you sad or remind you of all the odd negativities floating around you at the moment - I am simply here to make you think about food (as if you're not already thinking about getting up to check out what’s in the fridge as if anything has changed since you had a look 15 minutes ago).
With a third of the world’s population now on lockdown, it is a difficult time for all businesses. Whilst most of the large companies should be able to ride the wave, it will be a particularly hard time for small businesses that usually generate most of their revenue from physical sales.
YGTV’s article series continues - each month, David Sanchez will review military visits to the Rock. Drawing on his in-depth knowledge and photographic skills, the articles will provide readers with valuable background facts to the aircraft and vessels that pop into the Rock.
