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Dear Covid A few nights ago you took our buddy away from us, a devoted husband and heroic father to an exuberant 10 year old boy, who will now never be as exuberant again. You took him swiftly, emphatically, petrified and alone in a hospital bed surrounded by machines, not family. The night after his passing, as I sat, double masked, with the widow and son sobbing in my arms, the little boy remarked that the “sandwich” usually formed in bed around him by mum on one side, dad on the other, was broken. Why? Covid, you’ve destroyed enough sandwiches now, on so many levels. You’ve cut up families, sliced human contact, taken the filling out of many people’s economics, squashed education, taken the wrapper off our wholeness. We are tired now. And tearful. And hungry for normality. Please go away now. Dear Government Like so many others, I have…