Thursday, July 07, 2005

London Explosions

What a bizarre morning. There have been what are, almost certainly, terrorist attacks on the London tube and bus network and the transport system in the centre of the city is shut down. Naturally there was a lot of concern as people got into work and wanted to check-in with their friends and families which is perfectly understandable.

However it now seems that the whole incident has become some gruesome spectator sport. Most people in the office are glued to their computers, constantly hitting ‘Refresh’ on one or more news sites and shouting out the latest updates as they get them. What is the purpose of it? It doesn’t help find out who did it. It doesn’t help the recovery. In fact it actually aids and abets a terrorist agenda by reducing the amount of work the company is doing today. If you replicate the rubber-necking going on here across the city then London must be losing a lot of work (=money) today – and that’s before you consider the way share prices have already dropped.

Get on with your lives as normally as you can. Let the emergency and security services do their jobs.

1 comment:

Deb said...

You're right, of course, about letting emergency workers do their jobs...and everyone else getting on with the business on hand.

At least, that would be very logical. But emotions aren't logical, and people are reacting to their various emotions. Logic be damned.

Glad you're OK.
from Deb in Washington State