Monday 23rd March 2020

[K23]

5 years ago today, the start of the first Covid lockdown.

How did everyone react?

After it was announced, I jumped in my car on the Wednesday prior to the lockdown and drove the 330 miles from Somerset to my Mam's house near Gateshead. She was 96 and I genuinely thought it could well have been the last time I ever saw her as she was clearly very vulnerable being that age. I bought loads of stuff for her like tinned foods and lots of other essentials, stayed for 2 nights and drove home very early on the Friday without stopping as I then had to get loads of stuff for myself and my wife as she was also classed as vulnerable due to her longterm problems with anorexia so I wasn't letting her out of the house. That was a crazy period that I hope will never be repeated.

 

[Smurph]

I've spent 5 years trying to forget it ever happened.

 

[Pegojack]

I had to cancel all the bookings I had made for a short holiday in Cadiz later that week. Everyone was very understanding and I got my money back. Didn't need to stock up on supplies, supermarket shopping was very well supervised and organised here, but I had to do mine and my elderly neighbour's, because she doesn't drive.
It was a bizarre period, looking back, doing circuits of the garden every day for exercise, for example, and being stopped by the police and having my documents checked in the supermarket to make sure I was "local people". (This is a local shop for local people, etc, etc).

 

[Cooperman]

I was no stranger to working from my home office. However seeing my wife and kids despatched to all corners of the house so that they could teach and study online was a strange experience.

Just flicking back through photos of that time and five years ago today I took a photo of a well stocked freezer; I suspect that some of that stuff is still in there. Never before and never since has the garden looked so good so early on in the year.

 

[magicdaps10]

I hated the original lockdown, I had to do the first 3 months working from home and it didn't work for me. Weather was superb and loved each night having BBQ and a few cans whilst sitting out the back with the wife and just chilling....enjoyed that side.

The second lockdown was not so bad, i didn't work over Xmas and then got COVID over the new year but then was going into work and basically sat in an office by myself which I found easier than working from home in the first lockdown.


Big question, if it was to happen again(lockdown) would many people follow the rules this time round?

 

[monmouth]

Hearing the birds sing, having empty roads and not having to see people that irritate me. I’d welcome those bits back. The rest of it was awful and I prefer not to remember. The bastard thing didn’t kill Johnson and Trump so completely useless. We soon forgot our ‘key workers’ too, many those despised ‘immigrants’ by the hard of thinking.

Enjoy life.

 

[Cooperman]

I hated the original lockdown, I had to do the first 3 months working from home and it didn't work for me. Weather was superb and loved each night having BBQ and a few cans whilst sitting out the back with the wife and just chilling....enjoyed that side.

The second lockdown was not so bad, i didn't work over Xmas and then got COVID over the new year but then was going into work and basically sat in an office by myself which I found easier than working from home in the first lockdown.


Big question, if it was to happen again(lockdown) would many people follow the rules this time round?

It was definitely BBQ season. Over the course of March to June I think we clocked up something like thirty BBQ’s; we were having a couple per week. There was almost a bank holiday feel about things as not having to appear in the office meant that a little drink the night before was very often on the cards.

 

[K23]

I had to cancel all the bookings I had made for a short holiday in Cadiz later that week. Everyone was very understanding and I got my money back. Didn't need to stock up on supplies, supermarket shopping was very well supervised and organised here, but I had to do mine and my elderly neighbour's, because she doesn't drive.
It was a bizarre period, looking back, doing circuits of the garden every day for exercise, for example, and being stopped by the police and having my documents checked in the supermarket to make sure I was "local people". (This is a local shop for local people, etc, etc).

That's reminded me that I had 4 overseas trips booked for that year. Got all the money back for 3 of them but the 4th was to Machu Picchu and I got everything back except KLM gave me a voucher for the £1500 flights and when I got round to rebooking they said it had expired and wouldn't honour it. C*nts.

 

[Cooperman]

Hearing the birds sing, having empty roads and not having to see people that irritate me. I’d welcome those bits back. The rest of it was awful and I prefer not to remember. The bastard thing didn’t kill Johnson and Trump so completely useless. We soon forgot our ‘key workers’ too, many those despised ‘immigrants’ by the hard of thinking.

Enjoy life.

There are some real heroes in the key worker category. I can’t imagine the fear created by going to work in an environment with an invisible killer. Heroes.

 

[magicdaps10]

That's reminded me that I had 4 overseas trips booked for that year. Got all the money back for 3 of them but the 4th was to Machu Picchu and I got everything back except KLM gave me a voucher for the £1500 flights and when I got round to rebooking they said it had expired and wouldn't honour it. C*nts.

We booked a few holidays with the first one being in the April for my 40th.
We had a bit of a battle with getting that money back, we took a hit on it and I believe we lost around £300 on it......lots of emails back and forth.

 

[monmouth]

There are some real heroes in the key worker category. I can’t imagine the fear created by going to work in an environment with an invisible killer. Heroes.

I had to watch my own significant other go to the surgery every day. Still, she got Johnson clapping her every Thursday. What more could they ask. Heroes is bang on.

 

[magicdaps10]

There are some real heroes in the key worker category. I can’t imagine the fear created by going to work in an environment with an invisible killer. Heroes.

Remember the hitting of pans outside the house,!?

Full credit to them as it was certainly the unknown. I remember my wife going into school early on and she was practically having a bath of bleach and the stories of the kids with runny noses and just not being very thoughtful on their hygiene

 

[magicdaps10]

I had to watch my own significant other go to the surgery every day. Still, she got Johnson clapping her every Thursday. What more could they ask. Heroes is bang on.

Bet it was daunting early on for her? She must have caught COVID quite early then.

 

[monmouth]

Bet it was daunting early on for her? She must have caught COVID quite early then.

Don’t think either of us got it. She’s also generally very resistant to illness. I guess you build up immunity over the years,

 

[magicdaps10]

Don’t think either of us got it. She’s also generally very resistant to illness. I guess you build up immunity over the years,

You talking about illness or just in general posting on here!?