Tagged: Covid

Time for a little lookback at the moments of 2021. They are mostly highlights, but I didn’t want to totally forget the more difficult times – it feels easy to forget the misery of the first 3 months of 2021 when we were in perpetual lockdown. So, starting with… 17. That miserable lockdown I remember thinking during the first lockdown how lucky we were that it happened in spring, especially given how glorious the weather was. I also remember realising around November 2020 that the upcoming winter was going to be really difficult. It was. It was long and often …

I went into the Christmas season in fear. Not because of covid, but because of my social life. Somehow I’d agreed to go out 9 days/nights out of 10. At 41 years old. Oops. Of course, this didn’t actually happen. Some gatherings were cancelled, most work things were cancelled (except the one where I got covid). I even pulled out of one gathering without being prompted – and normally I turn up to the opening of a fridge if invited. Hell, I even pulled out of going for a roast dinner on the last Sunday before Christmas, just to try …

FUCK OFF. FUCK COVID. FUCK CHINA. SERIOUSLY, FUCK CHINA. FUCK BORIS. Urgh. I knew this was coming. I knew that it was irresponsible to go home for Christmas anyway and was seriously uncomfortable about it – yet didn’t really have a choice. But still, I feel simultaneously flat and angry. Angry mostly at China who seem to be getting away with it – I’d be much more at ease if they still had an issue with covid, as horrid as that sounds. Angry at our government about the way they have mishandled an admittedly really difficult and shitty situation – …

I can hear you now, dear Brexit-voting, Boris-worshipping reader, about to go apoplectic over how I dare to even consider whether there should be some criticism for Saint Boris over this perfectly-handled response to the Covid-19 crisis? Oh wait a minute, you’re actually a leftie and still mourning how the country were duped into not supporting a radical programme of democratic socialism – of course this is nothing less than a Tory Genocide. It seems how you view Boris Johnson and the government’s handling of this crisis is rather closely related to how you voted in December 2019. Those that …

This is really quite a depressing situation, isn’t it? The Virus Taliban has taken control of our lives…yet somehow I remain cheerful. I remember reading a story about this Coronavirus just after New Year – going back to work and people talking about the new year and how good it was going to be, but I jokingly mentioned this virus might wipe us all out. I wasn’t taking the threat too seriously, but I did have in the back of my mind all the warnings I had read in publications like The Economist for the last 15 years that one …