Filled in a survey & read some of the latest "lifestyle" columnists in UK (digital) newspapers.
No, some people are not using lockdown to browse around buying clothes and home accessories or patter about experimenting with new recipe ideas from inventive food combinations or try out a new food box delivery service.
Some of us are at breaking point between juggling childcare duties, supporting vulnerable or elderly relatives and neighbours, working from home or not at all, using the last tin of smartprice tomatoes that could be bought at an empty supermarket shelf (in person, because full-time worker parents aren't a priority group). While worrying about job security. Not whether to buy new sofa cushions while the cockpot experiment cooks!
I honestly think some commentators' experience of lockdown isn't even on the same planet as a huge portion of the rest of the (working class) UK
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To think lockdown has revealed a glaring class difference?
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TexanBlueNeck · 28/03/2020 16:32
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