A straight-forward question for y'all. In what way has the global Covid-19 pandemic affected you personally, and how have you had to modify your usual, daily routine?
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I ask this in all seriousness, because for my own case, life's hardly changed at all. As a full-time carer, I'm used to being at home 95% of the time anyway, only going out for shopping 'as-and-when', plus other odd items that occasionally need doing....
I'm well aware that for many people, this has impacted their lives quite considerably; work routines changing, social lives totally disrupted, family get-togethers a complete 'no-no' ATM.
I was out in the back garden the other day, and was suddenly struck by a thought.....how eerily quiet it was. We live in a medium-sized village, although it's rapidly becoming just a suburb of the nearby town, due to incessant expansion. There's usually always background noise, mostly vehicles, small tradesman doing work at people's houses, hum from 24/7 processes running at some of the businesses on the nearby industrial estate, but now? That's all come grinding to a halt; the general atmosphere is that of an older, more peaceful time (and way of life)...
It's actually quite refreshing. If you poke your head outside your front door before going to bed, it's like a graveyard in the dead of night. It is.....'odd', to say the least. There's a good chance the atmosphere might be well on the way to recovery by the time this is all over, however many months down the line that may turn out to be.....especially with all the planes being grounded!
So, let's be having you. Let's hear about your personal situations, for those that don't object to 'sharing'. And please, boys & girls, let's not get this hi-jacked by the doom'n'gloom merchants, okay? There's already a well-established thread for that in this very sub-forum; let's keep such stuff over there, if you'd be so good.
Over to you, kiddiwinks.....
Mike.
