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Year 2 of Lockdown, Day 1
Wow, it's been a year since I started doing these!*
When DID Lockdown start in the UK? Oddly, that's not an easy question to answer. I found this article: When did lockdown begin in the UK?, and the answer is both the 16th and the 23rd of March. The 16th is when Matt Hancock told the House of Commons that all unnecessary social contact should cease. (My 15 year old: 'Matt Hancock is just a meme!') But the 23rd was when Boris told the country that 'You MUST stay at home' and closed businesses and so on.
It's interesting to think back to a year ago... We knew we had to self-isolate for 14 days, but figured life might carry on more or less as normal around us, and I thought I'd get the time off work (HA!). We still don't know if Darcy & the Eldest actually had covid or not, since tests were impossible to get hold of back then.
And now, working from home is the norm (and I was lucky that this was possible) and we have home testing kits sitting on a shelf inside the front door. Half the family have had their 1st shot (as in Darcy's family - those who are elderly or working for the NHS, ditto my parents) and there is light at the end of the tunnel. Not just metaphorically - quite literally too, what with the increase in daylight and the lovely sunshine we've been having the past few days.
Anyway I have saved up loads of stuff, so will put all the rest under the cut. :)
First of all, these two videos which I also posted on that first day.
From Yes Minister, Britain's Coronavirus response plan summarised (INCREDIBLY accurate):
And the evergreen 'Remain Indoors' from That Mitchell & Webb Look (especially like the "It's March or November" part. Uncanny.):
With hindsight, I should also have posted this:
I liked this article a lot:
Acedia: The Lost Name for the Emotion We’re All Feeling Right Now
The ancient Greek word that so aptly describes our current state was lost to time and translation.
And here's what Very British Problems posted a year ago. Still funny now, although the idea of being able to go into a regular shop is... weird (this 3rd Lockdown - which started in January - has now lasted more than 70 days):
From the annals of 'that did not age well':
Going back in history, self-portraits by Edvard Munch when he was recovering from Spanish Flu:
Hope for the future:
Some long-haul covid-19 patients say their symptoms are subsiding after getting vaccines
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I wondered how to end this post, and then realised there was literally only ONE option: Staged. Specifically, Georgia Tennant being a HBIC:
*I went back & checked because I was only up to 364, and turns out I have two Day 106. Ah well. I don't THINK I have the energy to update them all.
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It was also the night of the last rehearsal of my own drama group, which I didn't go to because of being at 'Annie'. The last rehearsals of anything amateur, for a whole year (and counting). That was the day everything changed, for me.
But anyway. Great links! Love the Georgia one! :-)
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!! Damn. Hope it was a good performance and that they enjoyed it.
It was also the night of the last rehearsal of my own drama group, which I didn't go to because of being at 'Annie'. The last rehearsals of anything amateur, for a whole year (and counting). That was the day everything changed, for me.
*nods* At my work (further education college) we were beginning to wind things down and cancel events and had every single parent call to ask what was happening... /o\ Although I missed most of that particular nightmare due to being in quarantine.
But anyway. Great links! Love the Georgia one! :-)
You're welcome. And George is the Queen of all she surveys. I love her.
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Yeah. Damn is right. It was an incredibly emotional evening and the kids were amazing. <3
*nods* At my work (further education college) we were beginning to wind things down and cancel events and had every single parent call to ask what was happening... /o\ Although I missed most of that particular nightmare due to being in quarantine.
Oh god yeah, that whole week, there was so much communication, with school, drama groups, choirs, dancing, constantly changing plans and procedures... it was a nightmare! All interspersed with the daily announcements from Downing Street plus work getting mega busy - I'm an audio typist and already worked at home for an online company, and suddenly all the firms we worked for were closing down their offices and sending *all* their typing to us! It was crazy!
George is the Queen of all she surveys. I love her.
She is awesome. :-)
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<3 <3 <3
Oh god yeah, that whole week, there was so much communication, with school, drama groups, choirs, dancing, constantly changing plans and procedures... it was a nightmare! All interspersed with the daily announcements from Downing Street plus work getting mega busy
Yup. That all sounds familiar. (My poor work colleagues who had to answer the phones were half-dead.) Fun times.
I'm an audio typist and already worked at home for an online company, and suddenly all the firms we worked for were closing down their offices and sending *all* their typing to us! It was crazy!
:O
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You were doing better than me - I was only up to 361, and there are 365 days in a year. And I've renumbered several times.
So apparently I got off on my counting? I think I know why - I didn't start counting until four days later.
Interesting, you and I went under lockdown around the same time. We (as in myself and my co-workers and most of NYC) went down later than the rest of the US did. The US was weird. NYC had the biggest outbreak at that point - we were basically pandemic central at that point - but it went into lockdown after California, Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and various other states. Then? It stayed in lockdown longer than everyone else...kind of like Britain and the EU, I think?
Very weird.
Glad that half your family has gotten the first shot. Similar with mine - half has gotten it, the ones under fifty or without any serious pre-existing conditions are left.
We don't have home test kits here yet - or they aren't that reliable or available. So I've yet to experience a COVID test. Never had it though - to my knowledge.
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I noticed that we have seemed neck-and-neck. And I am RATHER tempted to go back & update them all from where it went wrong. Once cross-posting starts working again. :)
So apparently I got off on my counting? I think I know why - I didn't start counting until four days later.
Interesting. I was always doing my own numbering, since we went into quarantine before the 'official' lockdown.
Interesting, you and I went under lockdown around the same time. We (as in myself and my co-workers and most of NYC) went down later than the rest of the US did.
The UK was late compared to... most places. I'm guessing we were alike in watching EVERYWHERE ELSE and going 'Well, surely we ought to lock down also??'
Then? It stayed in lockdown longer than everyone else...kind of like Britain and the EU, I think?
The EU locked down before the UK. I'm hazy on when they opened up again, it's sort of a blur. And different countries did their own thing - obviously Italy were worst hit immediately, but the UK seemed determined to beat them. :(
Glad that half your family has gotten the first shot. Similar with mine - half has gotten it, the ones under fifty or without any serious pre-existing conditions are left.
Yes, same. It's a relief.
We don't have home test kits here yet - or they aren't that reliable or available. So I've yet to experience a COVID test. Never had it though - to my knowledge.
I've managed to avoid one also - people have been known to refer to them as 'brain ticklers' so I'm sure you would have remembered it. :) Home testing kits are being distributed left, right & centre, so that's nice. All students, school kids, NHS staff etc all get tested twice weekly.
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ETA: I dooooo!
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(my other "covid moment" is that I remember hearing about our first customer cancelling because of covid while I was crammed into a Framery phone booth with two colleagues - what a different world we used to live in!)
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It's interesting to look back and see what stands out.
I was just chatting yesterday with a co-worker with whom I watched the press conference (because we'd been having a meeting together about a project that ended up becoming obsolete due to lay-offs). We were talking about how we'd naiively thought that we'll just work from home for a couple of weeks and after that either we've all had covid or the pandemic has ended. Hah!
Oh goodness yes. Just... such uncharted waters. We knew nothing! (We were all Jon Snow. *g*)
(my other "covid moment" is that I remember hearing about our first customer cancelling because of covid while I was crammed into a Framery phone booth with two colleagues - what a different world we used to live in!)
Oh wow.
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*HUGS*
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*HUGS BACK*