This is Easter Sunday like no other. Fine weather but no trips to beaches, parks or beauty spots.
There’ll be Easter eggs if overzealous police officers have not tried to yank them out of your supermarket trolleys. But no Easter egg hunts other than in homes or back gardens.
Even churches will be shuttered and bolted on the most holy day of the year.
But in hospital wards and ICUs today will be like any other for exhausted doctors and nurses battling to save lives.
We owe it to them to remain under lockdown and venture out only for necessities.
We also owe it to them to ensure they have everything they need that it is humanly possible to give. And it is becoming clearer that is woefully lacking.
The Sunday Mirror is not in the business of scoring political points during a national emergency. We must all pull together and this newspaper is no exception.
But it is also our duty to speak truth to power - to highlight what is going wrong so it can speedily be put right.
There is not enough PPE. If there was doctors and nurses would not have to wipe down and reuse the little they have, or fashion their own out of beekeeper suits.
If there was care workers would not be toiling in nursing homes unprotected, or a care services charity spending £500,000 of precious donations to source their own.
There are not enough of the essential drugs needed to sedate patients on ventilators.
If there was doctors we spoke to last week would not be telling us of their fears these drugs are running out.
If there was they would not have to contemplate making life or death decisions over who should have them and who should go without.
If there was enough of everything vulnerable patients of all ages, their families and carers, would not be pressured into signing waivers on their lives - the Do Not Resuscitate forms.
We do not underestimate the logistical problems of getting vital supplies to all frontline workers who need it. We do question why they were not already there.
And it does not help when ministers claim everything is going according to plan when it is so plainly not.
When this is over the NHS must be given the resources it needs so these kinds of shortages can never, ever, happen again.
And heroic doctors and nurses under intolerable pressure, going above and beyond anything ever expected of them, daily risking their lives without hesitation, must get the pay rises they so richly deserve when this is all over.
But as they fight on the only weapon the rest of us have in our armoury against Covid-19 is to keep away from each other.
So be a good egg today and stay home. Lives depend on it.
And the NHS is depending on us.
