When this pandemic gets into the history books, I wonder which will be strange and unfamiliar to future generations - life before the pandemic or life during the pandemic.
The cynic in me thinks that countries where the immunisation programme is not going well, are using this to be able to say to their populations, that this is why things are slow.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I see France has halted the A/Z vaccine now, oh well goodness knows when we will get a jab now.
My 91 year old Dad lives in France (Strasbourg) with his wife.They have both had their 2nd jabs (Pfizer). Dad being British was all for getting his jab as soon as possible,he even volunteered to be in trials of the vaccine last year but was declined as he was recovering from a toe amputation followed later by the fitting of a new pacemaker! After the toe amputation he had to exercise so did a 'Captain Tom' walk and raised about 5,000 euros! (90 laps of the garden and block as it was his 90th year).
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
When this pandemic gets into the history books, I wonder which will be strange and unfamiliar to future generations - life before the pandemic or life during the pandemic.
@B3 I recently heard of this generations of children being referred to as Generation C (Covid). Will a year or three have long lasting impacts on this generation?
For my children (10 and 7), assuming things gradually head back towards the 'normal' side of things.. probably not. Both parents still employed, in school learning the entire year, weekly communication with friends, cousins, and loved ones over high-speed internet video calls, etc. Aside from not playing with friends and not physically being with grandparents and extended families, they have all the other important needs and wants in life. Everyone is healthy and happy in our immediate families.
It's the older siblings of single parents, trying to homeschool themselves and younger siblings, without internet or worse. Or the children of the un or underemployed, watching their parents struggle or having to give up their home to move in with family or friends. Those that lost loved ones to Covid. It will be years before many families can get back to their pre-Covid quality of life. That will have a long lasting impact on this Generation C.
One of my grandsons went back to school last Monday, The younger one goes back today was hoping for a positive test so could stay home longer, They’ve both worked online and are up to spec with their lessons, they both thought it would be good to learn like that all the time.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I was thinking about what will have changed forever. Things will never go back to how they were. We have changed, our attitudes have changed, what makes us feel secure has changed, the high street will be vaguely familiar when we return. World cruise anybody??? I think people will look back on footage of the way we lived pre - covid in the same way we think it strange when we remember , what were then ,great advances such as smoking and non smoking areas in pubs and on planes or seatbelts. Practises that were commonplace in the 60s or 70s seem strange or downright irresponsible now.
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Dad being British was all for getting his jab as soon as possible,he even volunteered to be in trials of the vaccine last year but was declined as he was recovering from a toe amputation followed later by the fitting of a new pacemaker!
After the toe amputation he had to exercise so did a 'Captain Tom' walk and raised about 5,000 euros! (90 laps of the garden and block as it was his 90th year).
I think people will look back on footage of the way we lived pre - covid in the same way we think it strange when we remember , what were then ,great advances such as smoking and non smoking areas in pubs and on planes or seatbelts. Practises that were commonplace in the 60s or 70s seem strange or downright irresponsible now.