This time last year...

[LifeInAHamsterWheel]

I was clearing out my watched threads list (god that took a while!) and noticed this thread it's from early Feb 2020 and case numbers were in single-digits. Interesting at the time, but even more so now because, of course, hindsight is 20/20

Here's hoping that this time next year we'll be back to 'normal'

I was thinking about roughly this time last year this morning, because of Storm Christoph

We had Ciara and Dennis around this time last year, which led to cancellation/virtual run for a local half marathon for one, and the CRUK central London Winter Run for the other. And at that time, races being cancelled was rare and doing a virtual a bit of a novelty

It just goes to show how we should take lots of things posted on here with a pinch of salt, lots of quite scathing denial on that thread, of course we know differently now though.

Yes it really does. I wonder how many of those extremely skeptical posters on the first thread have changed their minds?

I know I was initially skeptical, not scathing and not openly, but still I struggled to see how it could really get so bad... how wrong was I I think it was the images coming out of Italy that really stopped me in my tracks. And reading the 'analysis' threads on here as they were so factual and non-political (although a lot of it went over my head as it's so detailed!)

I often think back to that post.

I just scrolled through to see if I'd said anything daft... I hadn't. It's comforting seeing the familiar names on that thread who gathered and shared information in a sensible way for months. I followed those threads for a long while.

I'm raising a wry eyebrow at the smart alecs who were telling everyone off for being gullible and panic mongering.

To be fair, it was so new to most of us - we just had no idea what to expect. Even the language, words we'd never used before "quarantine" "lockdown" etc and having to wear masks and social distancing. In some ways it seems like yesterday and in others it feels like we've been going through this for years !

What scares me more is the thought this time next year we reminisce about how crazy we are now to hope the vaccines might work and lockdown will end sometime this year.

I was glued to these threads at the time and have been referencing them in other threads this week.

Just three weeks after that thread, my son caught covid in Birmingham. I’d like to know what kind of numbers would have tested positive back then if testing was available to everyone.
I remember being so worried as the in laws had booked a big meal in the city centre and expected us to go. That was a week before lockdown. I think it took a lot of people a while to get their heads around it all.