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Dislocation of expectation...

  One of the first things you learn in the military is how to deal with the dislocation of expectation. This can be expecting to be picked up by some form of transport only to be told you’re now yomping (walking with a heavy pack) back to base or expecting to be going home for Christmas and finding out you are off on a deployment in 2 days time (on Christmas eve). This has been Covid-19 for us so far.  We first started talking about our response to Covid-19 on the 6th of March. From here on in it has been an absolute flurry of activity with various work streams formed. There were heroics and a surge for a solution for something that we didn’t know how hard would hit us. As time went on and with a lot less retrievals than anticipated this turned to over- engineered solutions making things more complicated than needs be and tying ourselves in knots.  Covid-19 tipped us out of a dingy into fast flowing water. After the cold water shock some people were able to front cra...