When it really happens: SHTF...

[Gil Boyd]

Patrick,
Agree totally, this for us, the UK, is just the beginning. I used the analogy, only to assume a peak must have been reached in an area of Italy, as the virus slows and whether it had been identified, due to social distancing or something else we can all use.
My point was, the way people conduct themselves in these times which I am sure many of us have seen in our combined services to our countries, is exactly what we knew was going to happen and often spelt out in training on mass riots and lawlessness.

Everything will in the next few weeks change forever, a Police Service that will have to adapt to new styles of "Policing by Consent", a Military that will have to instantly absorb the consequences of "civvies" in mealt down and deal with it, without losing their cool, a Government that will have to make some serioulsy drastic decisions, so in short, it is up to the rest of us to keep sensible people dominating the streets and help those who have always been there to save life as best we can.

I am forever an optimist, and I will hope to be back on the range by the end of the year, and hope by that time the virus is defeated in most areas, or at least slowed to a trickle that can be sorted with a vaccine or a drug that is already out there not thought about its use yet.

In the meantime, lets all think of others and remain practising Social Distancing and restraint!