Topic: When did you realise it was gonna be bad?

[FerriswheelBueller]

An occasional flight of fancy is for me to imagine explaining to my Feb 2020 self what's about to happen.  Where would you start?  I suppose with 'there's a flu-like pandemic for which there is zip immunity and there has been no preparation and everyone has to stay 2m from everyone else for a year with everything that that implies'.

I mean it just invites a big fat WHAT

Yeah that’s how I feel now, and why I’m so pleased I had no idea how much of a big deal this was. If I knew this was “shit one mate, whole year of your life spent indoors, disaster!” then I’d have been a wreck April/may last year.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Yeah I have to say if I'd known then it would still be going a year later I'd have gone bananas. We've all lost a year of our lives to this shit.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I'd have used up all my annual leave between July and September.

[IsavedLatin]

I'd have used up all my annual leave between July and September.

Absolutely this. I've now got 10 days of leave to use between now and the end of March and I'm kicking myself for not using it when at the very least the days were longer.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

I'd have used up all my annual leave between July and September.

Oh god yes

[Pranet]

When this started they were saying that 4-5 years would be quick for a vaccine and we may not get one anyway, so in some ways this is going better than I expected.

But he is a cunning bugger, Johnny Covid, with his sly mutations, so I wouldn't be surprised if we are back to square one by the autumn.

[mobias]

This is a really interesting article that makes you incredibly angry. https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/11/records-confirm-turning-point-boris-johnson-meeting-with-lockdown-sceptics/

[idunnosomename]

absolutely anyone on this forum would've made a better prime minister through all this mess than boris fucking johnson

[Sherringford Hovis]

Not me. I would've eschewed any locking down and forbidden masks for everyone but me and Cameron just as an elaborate setup for an "Everybody's dead, Dave." quip. Would've worn a black polo neck and shaved my pate horseshoey to look properly Norman too.

[MrMrs]

when they cancelled wrestlemania