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This time last year...

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SkepticalCat · 28/02/2021 13:15

Is anyone else thinking back to this time last year when things were still (relatively) normal?

According to my Facebook memories, a year ago I was at an art exhibition, in an indoor space with possbly hundreds of other people, none of us wearing masks or socially distancing.

A week or so later I travelled into London on train/tube (again, no mask wearing) for a work meeting, then met a friend for lunch where we hugged each other hello and goodbye.

Looking back it seems crazy to have been able to have done all those things when we were only a few weeks away from school closures and national lockdown.

What were you doing this time last year?

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whatswithtodaytoday · 28/02/2021 14:31

This day last year I was ill in bed with something that with hindsight was very Covid-y. No idea if it was or not - if it was it was mild as I was back at work by the Thursday, on busy trains into London. I just hope it it was I didn't inadvertently kill anyone.

Next weekend is a year since my parents were last in my house, a year since I last went to a cafe and say inside, basically a year since normality. The next week my son got a weird rash (again, with hindsight could well have been Covid) and then we went into lockdown before he was better.

middleager · 28/02/2021 14:36

I had been following the news and threads for a while, so I cancelled a family get together and avoided a work thing in the middle of a city.

I was worrying about my son, who'd been skiing in Italy in the half term.

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 28/02/2021 14:38

Did an assembly to 500 kids in the same room, about how coronavirus was nothing to worry about.

Toomanycats99 · 28/02/2021 14:44

I was just finishing having a new kitchen fitted. Only things not finished before lockdown were the glass splashbacks as my DD came out in a fever the day before they were due to be fitted which was the Friday schools closed. So she missed last day of school.

I counted myself lucky I wasn't running 3 weeks later when I would have had no sink, worktops or washing machine for who knows how long!

I had a day in London with just my oldest dd 2 weeks before that and we had a lovely day getting bubble tea in Chinatown and browsing shops. She made me promise we would do that every 6 months without her youngest sister and hasn't happened again yet!

KettleWentBang · 28/02/2021 14:45

I was shopping for dds and dns birthday.
1st we had a party in ndoors for dn. Around 30 people.
For dd birthday a week after we did the same. And went to theme park. Soft play. Etc.

MNerGoneRogueAgain · 28/02/2021 14:46

Abroad with friends celebrating birthdays

ChameleonClara · 28/02/2021 14:47

I had done a fair bit of reading about covid by this time so apart from work/school we had stopped doing things.

ChameleonClara · 28/02/2021 14:49

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Did an assembly to 500 kids in the same room, about how coronavirus was nothing to worry about.
Why would you have said this to children? This makes me feel quite angry.

The message should always have been 'we don't know but we have amazing scientists'

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 28/02/2021 14:52

Scout camp.
We had trouble getting hand sanitizer. And got weird looks buying the food (two trolleys). Panic buying bacon and mince...

DIshedUp · 28/02/2021 15:03

I went on a weekend away and there was a wedding on in the hotel, ended up drinking till the early hours with some of the guests Grin

I do remember being worried though because my best friend was getting married in a couple of weeks and we didn't know if it was gonna go ahead. Things were very up in the air

DIshedUp · 28/02/2021 15:06

We had covid pods starting up in the hospital, and only a few days later we had our first covid patients, all elective work was cancelled colleagues starting dropping like flies. I remember thinking why the fuck are all these people going skiing in February half term so life wasn't that normal.

ilovesooty · 28/02/2021 15:06

I was at Wembley watching Manchester City win the Carabou Cup.

frozendaisy · 28/02/2021 15:07

@RuleWithAWoodenFoot

Did an assembly to 500 kids in the same room, about how coronavirus was nothing to worry about.
Brilliant.....hindsight eh!
pettyprudence · 28/02/2021 15:12

I was in Majorca this time last year. I was supposed to be in Milan but cancelled as it was the epicentre of the european outbreak of covid and Milan looked deserted on the news and not enticing. I remember thinking some people were strange for wearing masks on the airport bus. I used alcohol gel liberally.

iVampire · 28/02/2021 15:21

I was doing my 100th parkrun about then, and also did The Big Half (massive event in London, getting there and back by public transport)

I’d been at a local awards ceremony on the Friday night - about 300 people indoors

But I knew it could be serious - a friend I was due to meet for a catch up works in a major London ICU and cancelled on me as a) working flat out, both patients and planning and b) knowing I have leukaemia so not putting me at risk. Bit of a shock back then to have something I wanted to do cancelled because of a health condition. After a year of full shielding or diligent SD, that now seems pretty standard

greensnail · 28/02/2021 15:22

Life was absolutely nuts this time a year ago. One family member on end of life care and dh was away dealing with this. Another family member I was helping to try to get safely discharged from hospital. Dd2 had a show coming up so was ferrying her around to rehearsals. Dd1 getting prepared for school residential trip.
Work ( healthcare) was absolutely crazy, partly due to covid looming over us and constantly changing information about this and partly for other reasons which had been bubbling away for a while but all just coming to a head. Life feels much more under control for me and those around me now.

AuntieStella · 28/02/2021 15:30

I remember making sure I was at parkrun, because the next one on a leap day will be in 2048.

There were only 2 more before it was suspended

homesickinscotland · 28/02/2021 15:35

A year ago I was at the theatre with DD and that was pretty much my last outing I think. I remember feeling a little anxious about it then but I don't think there were any reported local cases at that point so we still went. I was more concerned for my parents who were out and about, and visiting the care home where my gran was dying (old age....no mention of covid, although we were suspicious).

trappedsincesundaymorn · 28/02/2021 15:44

I was ordering my Mother's day present for my mum, blissfully unaware that it would be the very last thing I would ever buy her, she died on March 31st.

Minesril · 28/02/2021 15:48

Went out for lunch in our local city, the last one before the second baby (just the 3 of us). We were trying to decide if it was quieter than usual.

kimlo · 28/02/2021 15:53

I wasn't well with a high temp and a cough. Went to the doctors on the monday and he said flu.

My asthma hasn't been under control since.

Raaaaaaarr · 28/02/2021 15:56

I had already decided that covid had well and truly landed in the UK and was not socialising from about this point onwards. I wondered about people who were still out about and if they realised what was about to hit us (had already hit us)? I also had a fever and felt unwell myself....no testing at that point.

DarcyJack · 28/02/2021 16:01

I was getting quite nervous by this time last year. I asked ds and girlfriend to move home to us if they were going to as I could tell that would be banned soon enough. He has now been here a year. :-|

MrsMoggy · 28/02/2021 16:01

On this day last year I was having a pint in the pool hall watching a darts competition. Remember it was a really
Good and funny night. Had just got back from Disneyland Paris a few days before where some people had been wearing masks at the airport, but nobody on our flight bothered as it wasn’t a requirement. So glad we squeezed that holiday in.

lkjhgfdsdfgh · 28/02/2021 16:01

I think this past week last year was the last normal week for me.

From 1st March onwards I was anxious. The first week of March I was still going out but had started to use hand sanitiser and wash my hands a lot more often. I made sure I had antimicrobial wipes, hand sanitiser and hand wash in the house (I didn't stock pile though). I have screen shots of news alerts from the past year and March 1st-7th is the week that the first UK patient died from COVID-19, the first case in my town was diagnosed and stock piling started to begin with hand sanitiser, paracetamol and hand wash being bought.

The recent spring-like weather has brought back how anxious March was with so much unknown. It was such a rapidly changing situation.

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