Sunday 9th March 2025 is Covid Day of Reflection.

Perhaps on reflection. However I started being ill the first day of lockdown. Prior to any tests to confirm. Fortunately didn't end up in hospital it was truly scary.And at the time DD was an ICU nurse seeing first hand young and previously healthy people dying.Plus a much respected colleague.So hindsight is a wonderful thing.Yes now I feel cross about the dodgy contracts and rule breakers in government. But would anyone else have acted any differently initially re precautions before we knew more what covid actually was and a vaccination was developed?.It was the second lockdown and how long it went on for that got to me. I was too ill the first few weeks.

Yes, so many people were wonderful, Churchview.
My Consultant driving miles out of her way to deliver the medication to her patients.
People looking out for one another.

Being controlled by a load of self-serving idiots.

Indigo8

My aunt had a stroke and was admitted to hospital where she caught Covid 19 and died of it. She was the last of my mother's generation. Nobody was allowed to visit her and she didn't have a proper funeral.

This would have been around the same time that there were Karaoke and drinks parties going on at number 10.

I am sorry for your loss Indigo.

Yes, one rule for them, another for the rest of us.

I remember the fantastic spirit of community in my town - people helping each other out, dropping groceries off, checking on vulnerable people.
The food bank in the station car park because you couldn't be indoors.
The quiet. No traffic.
The doorstep clapping and boats in the harbour sounding their horns in the background.
I remember the absolute commitment of so many key workers, the sense of fear as the number of deaths went up and up each day and the sacrifices so many ordinary people made.

Then I think of the lot at number 10 making a cock up of so many decisions and abusing their position to party.

Funerals with no-one there except perhaps just a couple of family members.

A Covid Generation of school children, many of whom have been left with lasting problems.

Some children suffering even worse behind closed doors, from sadistic adults, with no-one to notice.

If there is another pandemic, it must be handled better.

Indigo8

My aunt had a stroke and was admitted to hospital where she caught Covid 19 and died of it. She was the last of my mother's generation. Nobody was allowed to visit her and she didn't have a proper funeral.

This would have been around the same time that there were Karaoke and drinks parties going on at number 10.

Sorry for your loss🌺
So many died without loved ones able to see them. Was horrible.

My aunt had a stroke and was admitted to hospital where she caught Covid 19 and died of it. She was the last of my mother's generation. Nobody was allowed to visit her and she didn't have a proper funeral.

This would have been around the same time that there were Karaoke and drinks parties going on at number 10.

Correction - like I say

It was a depressing time, where you were more or less confined to your home for weeks on end, you couldn't get a haircut, most of the shops and pubs were closed, you couldn't socialise. Going to the supermarket meant standing in queue outside for ages, then another queue to be called for the tills. Also the news was just full of grim announcements and more restrictions. I think when most of the restrictions were lifted in the summer of 2021, it was a blessed relief.

Easy to say now FGT but there was a time when 1000 people were dying daily.
Very scary times. And we weren’t alone in locking down, most countries did, and many didn’t ease restrictions until long after we did.
Families the length and breadth of the country lost loved ones, some front line workers. It is this loss I will remember tomorrow as well as long covid sufferers.
When a new virus emerges like this killing so many a lockdown is the only way to check the spread. Goodness knows how high the number of those who died would have been if we didn’t do this.
Like I says easy in retrospect with covid vaccinations and a much less vigorous strain.

But 5 years ago, as now, it was all so frighteningly new and unprecedented.

Yes, reading through that list, it all looks so completely over the top. But there was no vaccine, no cure, no one knew what was going to happen.

Plus how many on GN were disinfecting the groceries before putting them away? (Not me, I never did that).

We all now know so much was wrong, but the fact remains, 5 years ago, we just didn’t.

And we were all scared.

Yes I appreciate that sentiment. However my own thoughts lie elsewhere I’m afraid.

Is it meant to be more fir people to reflect on those who died of Covid and those who were left with permanent ill health, rather than how daft we were?