COVID-19 lockdown was 5 years ago. What do you remember about that day when the world stopped?
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swirlie · 31-35
I had just got home from the gym mid-morning and heard on the TV that all flights were being grounded to Asia and to Europe. I owned a bunch of airline stock that was worth $55 each, so I immediately placed an online trading 'sell' order and sold every one of them. Two days later, those same stocks plummeted to $2 each as mass layoffs were announced and airplanes were parked up against the fence indefinitely.
On that first day however, after hearing that news on TV, I texted a married couple I knew who had gone to Egypt on vacation to tell them to get their asses back home ASAP because all flights were being grounded.
With reluctance, they heeded my words, cancelled the balance of their vacation and then flew from Egypt to Heathrow to Toronto and arrived home 22 hours later, just as all air travel drew to a close to and from everywhere.
The guy's wife however, immediately developed a sickness of some kind after arriving back in Canada, which turned out to be Covid-19 she had contracted while in Egypt.
She ended up in a Toronto hospital for 30 days on a ventilator, then ended up with 'long Covid' for another 8 months to follow, until she finally couldn't take it anymore and committed suicide at home after purposely sending her husband out to the store with a grocery list. When he got back home, the cops were parked in his driveway.
I never got Covid because I went into isolation mode as I retreated to my bomb shelter, but many of my friends died from Covid not long after the lockdowns got started.
On that first day however, after hearing that news on TV, I texted a married couple I knew who had gone to Egypt on vacation to tell them to get their asses back home ASAP because all flights were being grounded.
With reluctance, they heeded my words, cancelled the balance of their vacation and then flew from Egypt to Heathrow to Toronto and arrived home 22 hours later, just as all air travel drew to a close to and from everywhere.
The guy's wife however, immediately developed a sickness of some kind after arriving back in Canada, which turned out to be Covid-19 she had contracted while in Egypt.
She ended up in a Toronto hospital for 30 days on a ventilator, then ended up with 'long Covid' for another 8 months to follow, until she finally couldn't take it anymore and committed suicide at home after purposely sending her husband out to the store with a grocery list. When he got back home, the cops were parked in his driveway.
I never got Covid because I went into isolation mode as I retreated to my bomb shelter, but many of my friends died from Covid not long after the lockdowns got started.
