I'm disabled, so feeble that leaving the house is a massive and exhausting undertaking, something that needs planning with military precision, and that I rarely manage more than once or twice a year.
Lock down thrust everyone else into the situation I've had to live with for the past 15 years. All of a sudden people were motivated to invent new methods of connecting up via the internet. It felt miraculous to suddenly be able to take part in meetings, pub quizzes, theatre plays, book groups, and regular family socials again. Though at the same time I couldn't help but wonder why nobody bothered to set these things up so long as only disabled people were being left out.
I understand that a lot of people have found adapting to this (comparatively short and time limited) lock down difficult, and that once they are given the all clear they won't want to ever have to bother with a zoom connection again.
I just wish that there'd be some consideration for those of us who will be left behind, in permanent lock down, staring at the same four walls when you are back to enjoying each others company in pubs, restaurants, libraries and clubs.
Even if it is a bit of a bother to keep streaming meetings and setting up a zoom connection for the benefit of those who can't turn up in person, please do make the effort.
Imagine how you'd feel if you had to adapt to the fact that lockdown was going to continue forever, without even the pathetic substitute for real life that is zoom, and be prepared to make the extra effort to include those of us who won't be out celebrating when national lock down ends.