The situation was that of a pandemic. Through ideas presented in the poem Ernest Wish, we are encouraged to fight against an invisible enemy. In this way, front-liners would be able to come back home.
The situation when the author wrote the poem was during a pandemic.
The song illustrated the difficulties that the people faced during the pandemic. The author asks for want needed to be done in the first three stanzas. In the last stanza, it stated that the author wanted everything to be back to normal.
In the last stanza, the author stated that "let us bring the front liners back home, fight the unseen enemy...". The statement further supports that it took place during a pandemic.
