COVID-19 lockdown was 5 years ago. What do you remember about that day when the world stopped?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It did not make a great deal of difference to me as I am retired, though it did of course limit my leisure and social pursuits for a while.
The first lock-down in 2020 seemed a bit eerie. I live near a busy main road and for some weeks the traffic was so light I did not need use its lights-controlled pedestrian-crossing, to reach the shops with their "1 Metre Apart" stickers on the shop floors. I sometimes joked with other customers and the staff that we would all become good at hopscotch!
Quite simply I put up with it all as the far better of two evils - temporary restrictions on normal life, or a potentially dangerous disease which allowed to let rip would have had far, far worse consequences for us all - as the pro-epidemic types seemed to want.
I probably even saved some money by not having the temptations of pubs and tea-shops, and the petrol used in driving to meet friends!
The first lock-down in 2020 seemed a bit eerie. I live near a busy main road and for some weeks the traffic was so light I did not need use its lights-controlled pedestrian-crossing, to reach the shops with their "1 Metre Apart" stickers on the shop floors. I sometimes joked with other customers and the staff that we would all become good at hopscotch!
Quite simply I put up with it all as the far better of two evils - temporary restrictions on normal life, or a potentially dangerous disease which allowed to let rip would have had far, far worse consequences for us all - as the pro-epidemic types seemed to want.
I probably even saved some money by not having the temptations of pubs and tea-shops, and the petrol used in driving to meet friends!