Remember lockdown 1.0 and the announcement by Boris in the evening that we were to stay indoors, didn't know whether I should actually roll into work the next day so didn't go in and phoned up instead.
Can't actually remember what happened but as I recall I waited a couple of hours then got a call back saying to go in and collect my laptop as the company had decided people should work from home, I ended up having to go in the office once or twice a week but had next to nothing to actually do as our suppliers weren't supplying us with goods and our customers weren't selling much either.
The gym was closed but I remember we had 3 or 4 months of dry and bright weather so I was able to get out for either a walk when it wasn't so good or a bike ride on the prom every day.
I'd either walk for 90 minutes or cycle for about 2 hours, it was a weird feeling and often I would only see half a dozen people in all that time, I couldn't help but think it was like being in a zombie apocalypse movie
I'd had Covid a few weeks before lockdown and before it was actually considered a "Thing" and people weren't taking it seriously at the time, I do remember going into the office with a persistent cough and people actually laughing and joking saying "Have you got covid", at one point the Director I reported to looked up and said "Seriously do you think you may have covid" but there was no mention of sending me home
I remember once lockdown hit and there was a sudden reality check thinking there is no way I would have actually gone in with a cough and if I had then I would have been asked why the fuck I hadn't stayed at home
While the lockdown did feel a bit weird I also quite liked it in a strange sort of way, you could drive to the supermarket and there was hardly anyone else on the road (and hardly anything on the shelves either
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Nature started to take back control and worldwide CO2 levels etc dropped, it was like a temporary reset redressing the balance and putting things back how they should be slightly.
Part of me actually wishes that the world locked down for 1 month a year so that it could recover and people were able to relax and chill out a bit, the pace of life has got too fast and we need to slow down a bit
And before people start crying about lockdown I do realise that the economy couldn't stand it every year so it ain't going to happen
For some people at work they struggled not being in the office every day around other people, for me that was the best thing getting away from the pricks I worked with
