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sally_maria) wrote2021-03-21 12:54 pm
sally_maria) wrote2021-03-21 12:54 pm
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A year...
A number of people on my flist have been posting about their anniversaries of quarantine/lockdown, and it's a little weird for me, because I've been back at work since last June. It's not been normal, obviously, from working in PPE to negotiating a half shut down world, and with the constant underlying worry that we've all been living with but it's not been as limited as I know a lot of people have had to deal with.
My last day of work before lockdown would have been the 14th March, because I had the following week booked off work to see Home Free in concert on the Thursday. In actual fact, I'd already decided I couldn't go, because of the risk that was becoming increasingly obvious across Europe, before they had to cancel the tour anyway. On the Sunday our director asked if any of us would be willing to take some unpaid leave, as obviously we weren't going to be able to open as normal, and I agreed, thinking that with my 80ish parents at home, again I'd rather be safe. In the event, the furlough scheme kicked in and it didn't make any difference, but I can remember half-joking about how it could be 3 or even 6 months, thinking I was over-stating the case, and here we are a year later...
I've had my first vaccination at the end of January, a week or so after my parents, as we are providing services for the NHS we were in one of the earlier cohorts, and the second one is due in a couple of weeks. Normal is still quite a way off, but sometimes I can see a light of the end of the tunnel.
My last day of work before lockdown would have been the 14th March, because I had the following week booked off work to see Home Free in concert on the Thursday. In actual fact, I'd already decided I couldn't go, because of the risk that was becoming increasingly obvious across Europe, before they had to cancel the tour anyway. On the Sunday our director asked if any of us would be willing to take some unpaid leave, as obviously we weren't going to be able to open as normal, and I agreed, thinking that with my 80ish parents at home, again I'd rather be safe. In the event, the furlough scheme kicked in and it didn't make any difference, but I can remember half-joking about how it could be 3 or even 6 months, thinking I was over-stating the case, and here we are a year later...
I've had my first vaccination at the end of January, a week or so after my parents, as we are providing services for the NHS we were in one of the earlier cohorts, and the second one is due in a couple of weeks. Normal is still quite a way off, but sometimes I can see a light of the end of the tunnel.