We've been discussing how thermal cameras and other workplace devices being used to prevent coronavirus are becoming the new normal – a previously unfamiliar situation that is becoming normalised.
My suspicions became certainties when the attempt to break in was made on the first night that the hired nurse was absent, which showed that the intruder was well accustomed with the ways of the house.
So it sounds like this really hopeful moment of young people taking matters into their own hands has deteriorated into something much more depressing and familiar.