I don’t think I’ll forget any of this soon, but one day, I might forget the little bits.
I’m adding this to my status so every year it will pop up on my
memories. This is so I will NEVER forget the way the world changed in 2020...
memories. This is so I will NEVER forget the way the world changed in 2020...
Queen Elizabeth II 👑 addressed the nation at 8pm on Sunday 5th April. Shortly after this the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital himself with Covid-19
The PM had previously implemented a lockdown across the country on the evening of Monday 23rd of March 2020 ⛔️
Excel in London is now known as the NHS Nightingale and will be a hospital for up to 4,000 patients, most of whom are on ventilators suffering from Coronavirus (Covid-19) disease. The Nightingale was officially opened by Prince Charles at 11am Friday 3rd April by video link.
Similar venues are being used in cities across the country.
Similar venues are being used in cities across the country.
Community support groups established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure, in their community 🧓🏻👴🏻
From Thursday 26th March at 8pm and every Thursday night thereafter, we all stood united on our doorsteps, balconies and open windows and applauded and cheered for all our amazingly brave NHS staff 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 who so courageously and selflessly battled on to try and save as many lives as possible ❤️
Petrol ⛽️ price close to home 🏡 was 99.9p per litre for unleaded at Tesco Edenthorpe
Schools closed on Friday 20 March, potentially for the remainder of the school year. 👨🏻💻 Parents were home schooling and teachers were doing remote learning using apps like Zoom for a virtual lesson.
Social distancing measures required of a minimum of 2 metres ☹️
Tape on the floors at grocery stores 🏬 and others to help distance shoppers 🛒 from each other.
Limited number of people were allowed inside stores, therefore, queuing outside the store doors, still 2 meters apart 🏬
Non-essential stores and businesses mandated to closed 🚫 People who can are instructed to work 👩🏻💻👨🏻💻 from home 🏡
The Government Paid 80% of wages to all employees across the country who were furloughed due to Covid-19.
Every airline ✈️ grounded either all or at least 85% of its fleet. All crew were grounded and some used their skills to work for the NHS in Nightingale Hospital, the Ambulnace Service, 111 telephone handlers or community support.
Air pollution improved. Rivers cleaned up. City & traffic emissions reduced. ♻️
Parks 🏕 trails, entire cities 🏢 closed or restricted to locals who can get there by foot. Not permitted to drive anywhere to exercise.
Entire sports ⚽️ 🏉 🎾 seasons cancelled. No Wimbledon, no end to the Premiership, no Boat Race, no London Marathon. A virtual Grand National was held on 4th April 2020.
Olympics postponed to 2021.
Concerts 🎫 tours 🚌 festivals 🤹🏻 entertainment events 🎭 all cancelled
Weddings 👰🏼🤵🏻 family celebrations 🥳 holiday gatherings 👨👩👦👦 even funerals ⚰️ cancelled 🚫
Families got creative and found entertaining ways of passing time by doing Tik Tok videos or going Live on Facebook. 🎥
Singers and bands played live sets on their driveways or on their balconies for all to hear 👂🏽
Households that can’t see their friends and loved ones come together across the country by using Zoom or Houseparty to play games or host pub quiz nights.
No masses, churches ⛪️ are closed 🚫
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now, Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home ⚗️
Children's outdoor play parks are closed 🎡
We are to distance from each other. Shortage of masks 😷 gowns 🥼 gloves 🧤 for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill 🤒 in many parts of the world. Formula 1 racing teams and Virgin Galactic designed and produced ventilators in the space of a week.
Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA 🇺🇸 Italy 🇮🇹 Spain 🇪🇸 China 🇨🇳 and more.
Panic buying 🛒 sets in and we have limits on toilet paper 🧻 disinfecting supplies, paper towels, staple foods, hand sanitizer 🧴 Flour is hard to get because the packaging comes from China 🇨🇳 and borders are closed 🚧
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses 🏢 switch their lines to help make visors, masks 😷 hand sanitizer 🧴 and PPE 🧤
Fines are established for breaking lockdown rules 🤑
Stadiums 🏟 and recreation facilities overseas open up for the overflow of Covid-19 🦠 patients.
Public Park 🏕 areas turned into caravan parks for stranded tourists to self isolate 🚐
Press conferences daily from the PM 👩🏻 and other government 🏛 officials. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ⚰️
Government incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roads 🛣
People wearing masks 😷 and gloves outside 🧤
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work 👮🏻 👩🏻⚕️ 👲🏻
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families 👨👧👦
64,727 deaths globally so far as at 6 April 2020.5,373 in the UK.
This is the Novel Coronavirus 🦠 (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.
Why, you ask, do I write this status?
One day it will show up in my memory 💭 feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted 💕
We have so much we need to appreciate that we take for granted.
Be thankful. Be grateful 😌
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone 🥰
My sons headteacher writes a weekly blog; here is an excerpt worth reading (especially if you don't quite get how schools work & you haven't set foot in one for many years!):
''I was born two months after Boris Johnson. I have a heart condition. This week I was due to have a replacement pacemaker fitted, the same week the Prime Minister was admitted to St Thomas’ Intensive Care Unit. My operation was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Four years ago I contracted pneumonia. My GP told me that if, after taking a second lot of antibiotics, I did not feel better within 24 hours, I should go straight to A&E. You can die of this, he said.
I know what it is to feel overwhelmingly weary, to be unable to catch my breath, to feel afraid. Contracting pneumonia was, quite frankly, terrifying.
And all this went through my mind last night as I geared myself up to open school today with the help of five colleagues. On the way to work, there was chatter on Radio 4’s Today programme about reopening schools, from experts who have, perhaps, forgotten the experience of their own school days.
We had nine students to look after – the other 1,522 were at home.
I spent most of today yelling, “TWO METRES!” at our small group of wonderful youngsters. I have a responsibility to keep them and my colleagues safe from each other.
And I want to remain safe too. I really do not fancy contracting COVID-19. Consequently, I am relentless in my exhortations to maintain social distancing.
“TWOOOOO METRES!”
Keeping each other safe is an exhausting enterprise. For the past four weeks I have felt like something is sitting heavily on my chest. It is a level of permanent tension. It rises on a Tuesday night and peaks during my rota-day Wednesday. For the rest of the week it is a constant presence. I know I am not running a COVID-19 ward, but my fears are very real.
As I grumbled around our corridors and out on the school field, the words of the so-called experts came back to me. “Schools could open. Students should maintain social distancing procedures and remain in the same room all day, through breaks and lunchtimes.”
Our students are young teenagers. Remaining two metres apart from each other is an unnatural thing for them to do, as is sneezing into the crook of their elbow, or using a tissue, or washing their hands thoroughly, or keeping their fingers out of their mouths, noses and eyes.
It was a long day, but the young people were just great. They even let me win the penalty shoot-out. But it was all we could do to keep these nine socially distant, with a student-teacher ratio of 2:3. Imagine what it would be like with 1,531 students in school and a third of our staff self-isolating?
We reckon you could keep just 13 secondary-aged students socially distant in an average classroom. If we returned to school after Easter, to ensure over 1,700 people remained safely socially distant we would need twice the number of classrooms and twice as many teachers. We would require many more buses to get them there. And how we would feed everyone, when we would be stuck in the same room all day, I cannot quite imagine.
At 3.20 pm today, as we bid farewell to our students, I felt drained.
On the way home I popped into the local Tesco mini-mart. It was all but empty, until a nurse suddenly appeared at the other end of the aisle. I caught her eye and simply said, “Thank you”. She looked bemused at first, but then realised what I meant.
She was reciprocally thankful to all the other key workers: the super market shelf-fillers; the bus drivers; the refuse collectors; the police; the teachers. She was upbeat because the personal protective equipment had arrived today. She was a district nurse. She had been sneezed over for the past month, but the newly acquired surgical masks were a godsend.
Fortunately for me, we were interrupted by another shopper and our conversation was curtailed. I paid for my dishwasher tablets and held it together until I made it to my car. And it was then that I gave in and wept.''
- Note how coronavirus imagery has been merged with LGBT and children. "You are not alone" seems to be the ironic, if not mocking, new government slogan!
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