jack

I have been looking over my diary from this time last year. I wrote several entries "dear future historian" trying to capture how I felt, what I felt sure of, what I didn't know.
I'm trying not to dwell on this too much. I think I felt like if it got to the point of a national crisis it was likely to last six months to two years one way or another, which now looks pretty accurate. I deliberately didn't predict WHAT, whether we'd get a vaccine, or competent government, or quick reliable tests, or it would be awful but then mostly over.

The first week in march we knew covid was spreading in London and the government weren't taking any effective action. We were willing to travel to London but knew it would be the last time. The second week, we were judging what was safe day by day based on how far it was likely to spread. I went to the pub and gym on about Tuesday I think, but didn't on Thursday.

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I stopped blogging all the updates as they happened once it was clear the government was doing *something* which was probably the best for me. Now I'm catching up intermittently.

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ETA: There are a bunch of corrections in comments here and on FB, I don't have time yet to try to update the post interactively.

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