Lockdown actually bringing people together?

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Not physically obviously. Well hopefully not! But in a community sense.

We are all working from home (DH, me, adult DD) so during the day we don't leave the house. But when we finish in the early evening we have our daily walk of 30 - 40 minutes just around the neighbourhood. The streets are pretty quiet and everyone seems to be behaving properly and giving each other space. However we have found people more inclined to acknowledge each other. Several times we have met people we know but haven't seen in ages and have conducted conversations from opposite sides of the road. Also there are people we don't know at all but have seen at the same time several times so we now find ourselves smiling and waving like we are friends!

Our main social activities have obviously stopped but it is amazing what people are managing through zoom and similar. We are all managing to have music lessons remotely and I know of two choirs rehearsing like that.

One of my sisters lives alone but since lock down has had at least one zoom activity a day. Coffee mornings, quiz nights and bingo are just some of the events she has done this week.

It is hard to find positives right now but I think the determination of people to try and find ways to come together when they can't actually come together physically is heartening.

Does anyone have similar examples?

Not really. I live in a housing co-op, so most people already help each other when necessary.

And the only additional interaction I've had was when we (me, my partner, my daughter, and our dog, who all live together) went out to the (otherwise deserted) field down the road yesterday to play football. As we were leaving the building, my neighbour shouted that he was going to call the police. Then when he passed the field (with his teenage son) a few minutes later, he kept shouting that the child (i.e. mine, apparently his is fine) shouldn't be out.

I'm not sure whether he thinks my daughter is at risk (from the trees?), or that she is putting other people (or trees?) at risk, but either way, I didn't feel the community spirit.

No idea why the voting buttons are there BTW, I did not intend it to be a vote

We did a family games night last night with Zoom and another app.
All the cousins got together - some techical hitches (apparently I was in another meeting) but it was great fun - and good to see the family.

Yep, we have had a 'pub quiz' night via Zoom, are competing with dsis and her family on online quizzes daily, dh did an online poker night with his friends and we're planning a virtual birthday party for ds.