5th Covid Anniversary

[Moomin]

How do you remember the 2020 initial lockdown? It was tough but thankfully Science saved the day with creating a vaccine for life to get back to normal.

RIP for the people we lost.

Covid day of reflection in UK marks fifth anniversary since pandemic

Locally organised events took place across the UK, marking five years since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[blue61]

Koff.

 

[PercyPlant]

True. Life got back to normal. Shame it spawned a bunch of mouth breathers who believe everything they see on the internet but not actual science.

 

[Littlesue]

Three months off on 80% pay, what more could you ask for.
Although I paid the price when I returned to work. I was a jewellery merchandiser in Phillip Green's Arcadia shops and he shut them all down so was redundant at 60.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

The only thing I remember is it taught me we're going to have to have people dropping dead in the street for ignorant MAGA people to get their act together.

 

[summerisle]

C'mon @Joey66 , you're slipping, er, too soon ?

 

[Joey66]

C'mon @Joey66 , you're slipping, er, too soon ?

Caught it last year- not nice all the family went down with COVID + Daughter up in Scotland caught it developed into long COVID lost a well paid managers job ....

 

[Bryan+]

Destroyed my life.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Covid / lock down provides an interesting insight into the human psyche imo.
Fortunately I didn’t catch it initially, and when I did (x3) it was very mild.
So for me, my initial memories of lock down are it was tremendous. Was WFH on full pay despite being in construction at the time. Wife was too, so we had so much extra time without the commute etc. was keeping fit, getting out walking etc more, the weather was great, loads of BBQs etc.

But then I start to think about the weeks before lockdown and how the site I was on was late shutting down and how scary that was given the media were basically reporting you will die if you catch it.
Then I remember how fearful I was for my elderly parents.
Then I recall one of my best mates was hospitalised and close to being intubated.

So all in all, my mind has largely blanked out the bad bits and all the good stuff is what springs to mind.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

How do you remember the 2020 initial lockdown? It was tough but thankfully Science saved the day with creating a vaccine for life to get back to normal.

RIP for the people we lost.

Covid day of reflection in UK marks fifth anniversary since pandemic

Locally organised events took place across the UK, marking five years since the Covid-19 pandemic began.

www.bbc.co.uk

Loved Lockdown initially. Got in Disney +, binged films and Spotify. While my work was suspended I was still able to earn from it so stress free.

Then we had an immediate family death due to COVID and along with grief it became scary.

 

[Leylo]

Lost both parents not with COVID but lack of proper treatment for cancer because hospitals were grim ...do not resuscitate forms waved in their faces everytime admitted...COVID funerals wow don't get me started...fxxkoff Boris

 

[IrishBlue2022]

Crazy times.

I lost my father on the 3rd of March 2020, i remember the first person brought into intensive care with covid, i think in the north, while he was there which made it all a bit real.

I was living in his house at the time so had to move out of that into the mothers with the girlfriend and 2 dogs for a week. My mother took ill 2 days after my father passed and ended up in the same bed in the same ward being treated by the same nurses that he had been when he was first admitted 6 months previous. So lots of worrying about her.

We then moved into our new build house the following week, just days before the lockdown. The other half of our street remained unfinished for months with houses partially built, no street lights etc. Spent months between our kitchen and bedroom as we couldn't get all of what we needed deliveres to furnish the house.

The break from work was timely though so i appreciated that.

 

[chrismpw]

My lasting memories are that everything done was always 3 months too late and not enough. I remember a lot of false and wrong science being uttered from the PM's lips and his tame, sponsored scientist, as he planned, by inaction, letting a opportunistic illness bump off the elderly and solve the pension crisis that tory neglect and incompetence had allowed to blossom. He even left the schools open, so the illness could be spread by kids to their grandparents.

Then he told us to keep indoors as a show of an attempt to control it, letting the school kids soread it, while his mates offered billions to their mates to incompetently fail to supply ppe. And to top it all, he partied while my mum was isolated from her family developing dementia.

Lying, thieving scum of a tory party - as has always been and always will be. That's what I remembered today.

 

[Liam-EFC]

Lost both parents not with COVID but lack of proper treatment for cancer because hospitals were grim ...do not resuscitate forms waved in their faces everytime admitted...COVID funerals wow don't get me started...fxxkoff Boris

So sorry for your loss mate, I can’t imagine your pain.

People at the top should be in prison for how it was all handled.

 

[Leylo]

So sorry for your loss mate, I can’t imagine your pain.

People at the top should be in prison for how it was all handled

Honestly mad it was my mum needed her lungs clearing and flooding my sister' is a nurse and we could not go in because of COVID they said my mum signed do not resuscitate, they could have done it but intensive care was full with COVID because she signed the form without us she passed away but we weren't allowed in ffs.always clapping nhs but will never will now