I remember I was at my uni library and I learned from a tweet of the health ministry that schools and unis are shutdown for the foreseeable future. I immediately went home early.
I remember telling my siblings “Meh this will probably last a week or so”. lol in hindsight.
I had already shifted to working from home, ordering groceries for pickup, avoiding crowds, etc. for several weeks before shutdown happened.
I too thought it would last maybe a month or two, so started a degree thinking I would have at least a semester knocked out during lockdown. Jk, I had the whole degree done before we returned to office.
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Sorry to hear you went through all that bullshit
It was evening in the UK when it was officially announced but we had been expecting it for a few weeks as the UK government at the time dragged its heels unsure of what to do, spoiler alert I did not even get a day off unless you count the weeks i had off because I kept catching covid, the first time completely knocked me off my feet for a week.
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At work. Co-workers said probably two weeks. I said probably a year.
Probably at home? I worked from home running my own business so really didn’t notice any change to my circumstances.
My elderly neighbour on the other hand - he was on a very long cycling holiday in New Zealand. He was up in the mountains when it all went down. He came down the mountain and found the place like a ghost town and had no idea what was going on!
In Accident and Emergency with chest pains because I’d caught Covid already.
Kinda never, I never really experienced the lock down. I lived off grid and worked super rural at the time. I heard about everything shutting down all over the country but it never reached me. Still just went to work everyday. I also never got covid.
That’s amazing. You should write a book lol.
I had requested a week off of work because I was miserable and about to quit. Was watching the governor of my state speak on tv with my family, and knew what was going to happen based on what was happening everywhere else. Look, the pandemic was clearly awful and the consequences have screwed up the world even more than it was already screwed up… but in that moment learning that I’d never have to go back to that job and I was about to get $1000/week to sit home, spend time with family, cook, relax, play games and watch movies? Oh, it was the best times of my adult life. So this is how the rich get to live? Turns out I’m not depressed. I just hate being a slave.
I was doing my internship at a small accountancy firm in Belgium. Happy I got to leave and be home.
God damn, COVID was a blissful and amazing period. Basically the last part of my life where I spent a lot of time on the computer.
After that I got married and basically am just working and spending time with my wife. Of course that’s fun. But I guess my “solo time” ended with COVID.
UK, so announced in the evening before it happened. My patio was in the process of being done and they struggled to get the slabs as all the builders merchants were closed, fortunately it did get finished - their last job for a while. Other than that I was working from home but I don’t remember if that came in slightly before lockdown was officially announced. Went from five days in the office to none.
Early February 2020. Someone in my main friend-group groupchat posted some news regarding Coronavirus. Me, happy citizen of UnderARockVille said “What the fuck is a Coronavirus?” and got gently made fun of.
A few weeks later aaaaand we were quarantining.
I was across the country, close to the shithole that was my home town. Was supposed to be there helping a friend of mine with his pot growing operation but to be honest, the whole thing was a bit of a bust even before lockdowns. But lockdowns hit maybe a two months after I got there and that more or less fucked everyone’s plans.
But I was stuck there for a while. And my internet was spotty to non existent. And at one point the house got broken into and my shit got stolen. So it was overall pretty crappy times.
At the door to Burger King
Were you let in?
I think I was in a college lecture when we were told that we were going to be remote for the last few weeks of our course.
I remember hearing about COVID for the first time a lot more clearly though, I was volunteering in a charity shop and the two managers were chatting about how the couple who ran the flower shop down the road just brought it back with them from their trip to china. I told my mum that it might be worth buying some hand sanitiser and she said “I’ll worry about it when it gets to the village” safe to say it got to the village pretty soon after that.
