We are still in lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak, but how long for? What will happen when lockdown is lifted? Will things have changed? Will they return to normal? These are just some question that most people will be thinking. These are very uncertain times we are living in at the moment.
I find things are very different now to what they were at the start of lockdown, in terms of traffic, people out, businesses and behaviours.
Before lockdown even started, people were panic buying things. Things you wouldn’t have thought. Not food, but toilet rolls and cleaning products. I was completely baffled as to why.
At the start of lockdown, people followed the rules of only leaving your house if it was essential, going out once for exercise, and shops put procedures in place to allow us to shop safely, such as one way around the shop, keeping the distance of 2m at tills and when queuing, and putting screens up to protect staff on the tills.
Traffic was amazing! A whole 10 minutes was knocked off my travel time to and from work. The skies went quiet as flights were grounded. The atmosphere felt very strange indeed.
We have started clapping on a Thursday at 8pm every week to show our appreciation for ALL key workers: school staff, NHS, Police, Fire crew, Retail workers, public transport drivers, delivery drivers, and all those who are still required to go into work to keep us all going!
6 weeks later, lockdown might be coming to an end (it may not, depends on Boris’s decision this weekend). Traffic is increasing, some shops now only allowing one family member in at a time, as whole families started going shopping, police doing checks on roads to check if your journey is essential. It’s as though lockdown never existed.
Who knows what the future will hold.