Read on TwitterI’m adding this to my timeline so I can pin it. This is so I will NEVER forget the way the world changed in 2020...
Queen Elizabeth II 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👑" title="Crown" aria-label="Emoji: Crown"> addressed the nation at 8pm on Sunday 5th April. Shortly after this the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital himself with Covid-19
The PM had previously implemented a lockdown across the country on the evening of Monday 23rd of March 2020 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⛔️" title="No entry" aria-label="Emoji: No entry">
Excel in London is now known as the NHS Nightingale & will be a hospital for up to 4,000 patients, most of whom are on ventilators suffering from Coronavirus (Covid-19). Similar venues are being used in cities across the country. Opened by Prince Charles at 11am Friday 3rd April.
Community support groups established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immunocompromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure, in their community https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧓🏻" title="Older adult (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Older adult (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👴🏻" title="Older man (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Older man (light skin tone)">
From Thursday 26th March at 8pm & every Thursday night thereafter, we all stood united on our doorsteps, balconies & open windows & applauded & cheered for all our amazingly brave NHS staffhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏽" title="Clapping hands sign (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign (medium skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏽" title="Clapping hands sign (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Clapping hands sign (medium skin tone)"> who so courageously & selflessly battled on to try & save as many lives as possible https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Red heart" aria-label="Emoji: Red heart">
Petrol https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⛽️" title="Fuel pump" aria-label="Emoji: Fuel pump"> price close to home https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏡" title="House with garden" aria-label="Emoji: House with garden"> was £1.03 per litre for unleaded.
Schools closed on Friday 20 March, potentially for the remainder of the school year.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨🏻💻" title="Man technologist (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man technologist (light skin tone)"> Parents were home schooling and teachers were doing remote learning using apps like Zoom for a virtual lesson.
Schools closed on Friday 20 March, potentially for the remainder of the school year.
Social distancing measures required of a minimum of 2 meters https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☹️" title="Frowning face" aria-label="Emoji: Frowning face">
Tape on the floors at supermarketshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏬" title="Department store" aria-label="Emoji: Department store"> and others to help distance shoppers https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛒" title="Shopping cart" aria-label="Emoji: Shopping cart"> from each other.
Limited number of people were allowed inside shops, therefore, queuing outside the store doors, still 2 meters aparthttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏬" title="Department store" aria-label="Emoji: Department store">
Tape on the floors at supermarkets
Limited number of people were allowed inside shops, therefore, queuing outside the store doors, still 2 meters apart
Non-essential shops and businesses mandated to closed https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚫" title="No entry sign" aria-label="Emoji: No entry sign"> People who can are instructed to work https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏻💻" title="Woman technologist (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman technologist (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨🏻💻" title="Man technologist (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Man technologist (light skin tone)"> from home https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏡" title="House with garden" aria-label="Emoji: House with garden">
The Government Paid 80% of wages to all employees across the country who were furloughed due to Covid-19.
The Government Paid 80% of wages to all employees across the country who were furloughed due to Covid-19.
Every airline https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✈️" title="Airplane" aria-label="Emoji: Airplane"> grounded either all or at least 85% of its fleet. All crew were grounded and some used their skills to work for the NHS in Nightingale Hospital, the Ambulance Service, 111 telephone handlers or community support.
Air pollution improved. Rivers cleaned up. City & traffic emissions reduced. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♻️" title="Universal recycling symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Universal recycling symbol">
Parkshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏕" title="Camping" aria-label="Emoji: Camping"> trails, entire cities https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏢" title="Office building" aria-label="Emoji: Office building"> closed or restricted to locals who can get there by foot. Not permitted to drive anywhere to exercise.
Parks
Entire sports https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚽️" title="Soccer ball" aria-label="Emoji: Soccer ball"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏉" title="Rugby football" aria-label="Emoji: Rugby football"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎾" title="Tennis ball" aria-label="Emoji: Tennis ball"> seasons cancelled. No Wimbledon, no end to the Premiership, no Boat Race, no London Marathon. A virtual Grand National was held on 4th April 2020.
Olympics postponed to 2021.
Olympics postponed to 2021.
Concerts https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎫" title="Ticket" aria-label="Emoji: Ticket"> tours https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚌" title="Bus" aria-label="Emoji: Bus"> festivals https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤹🏻" title="Person juggling (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person juggling (light skin tone)"> entertainment events https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎭" title="Performing arts" aria-label="Emoji: Performing arts"> all cancelled
Weddingshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👰🏼" title="Bride with veil (medium light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Bride with veil (medium light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤵🏻" title="Person in tuxedo (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person in tuxedo (light skin tone)"> family celebrations https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥳" title="Partying face" aria-label="Emoji: Partying face"> holiday gatherings https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨👩👦👦" title="Family (man, woman, boy, boy)" aria-label="Emoji: Family (man, woman, boy, boy)"> even funerals https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚰️" title="Coffin" aria-label="Emoji: Coffin"> cancelled https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚫" title="No entry sign" aria-label="Emoji: No entry sign">
Families got creative & found entertaining ways of passing time by doing Tik Tok videos or going Live on Facebook.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎥" title="Movie camera" aria-label="Emoji: Movie camera">
Weddings
Families got creative & found entertaining ways of passing time by doing Tik Tok videos or going Live on Facebook.
Singers and bands played live sets on their driveways or on their balconies for all to hear https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👂🏽" title="Ear (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Ear (medium skin tone)">
Households that can’t see their friends and loved ones come together across the country by using Zoom or Houseparty to play games or host pub quiz nights.
Households that can’t see their friends and loved ones come together across the country by using Zoom or Houseparty to play games or host pub quiz nights.
No masses, churches https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⛪️" title="Church" aria-label="Emoji: Church"> are closed https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚫" title="No entry sign" aria-label="Emoji: No entry sign">
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now, Don& #39;t socialize with anyone outside of your homehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚗️" title="Alembic" aria-label="Emoji: Alembic">
Children& #39;s outdoor play parks are closedhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎡" title="Ferris wheel" aria-label="Emoji: Ferris wheel">
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now, Don& #39;t socialize with anyone outside of your home
Children& #39;s outdoor play parks are closed
We are to distance from each other. Shortage of masks https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😷" title="Face with medical mask" aria-label="Emoji: Face with medical mask"> gowns https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥼" title="Lab coat" aria-label="Emoji: Lab coat"> gloves https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧤" title="Gloves" aria-label="Emoji: Gloves"> for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically illhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤒" title="Face with thermometer" aria-label="Emoji: Face with thermometer"> in many parts of the world. Formula 1 racing teams and Virgin Galactic designed & produced ventilators in the space of a week
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill
Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flag of United States" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United States"> Italy https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇮🇹" title="Flag of Italy" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Italy"> Spain https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇸" title="Flag of Spain" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Spain"> China https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇳" title="Flag of China" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of China"> and more.
Panic buying https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛒" title="Shopping cart" aria-label="Emoji: Shopping cart"> sets in and we have limits on toilet paper https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧻" title="Roll of paper" aria-label="Emoji: Roll of paper"> disinfecting supplies, paper towels, staple foods, hand sanitizer https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧴" title="Lotion bottle" aria-label="Emoji: Lotion bottle"> Flour is hard to get because the packaging comes from China https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇳" title="Flag of China" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of China"> and borders are closed https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚧" title="Construction sign" aria-label="Emoji: Construction sign">
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏢" title="Office building" aria-label="Emoji: Office building"> switch their lines to help make visors, masks https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😷" title="Face with medical mask" aria-label="Emoji: Face with medical mask"> hand sanitizer https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧴" title="Lotion bottle" aria-label="Emoji: Lotion bottle"> and PPE https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧤" title="Gloves" aria-label="Emoji: Gloves">
Fines are established for breaking lockdown ruleshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤑" title="Money-mouth face" aria-label="Emoji: Money-mouth face">
Fines are established for breaking lockdown rules
Stadiums https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏟" title="Stadium" aria-label="Emoji: Stadium"> and recreation facilities overseas open up for the overflow of Covid-19 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> patients.
Public Parkhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏕" title="Camping" aria-label="Emoji: Camping"> areas turned into caravan parks for stranded tourists to self isolate https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚐" title="Minibus" aria-label="Emoji: Minibus">
Public Park
Press conferences daily from the PM https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏻" title="Woman (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman (light skin tone)"> and other government https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏛" title="Classical building" aria-label="Emoji: Classical building"> officials. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚰️" title="Coffin" aria-label="Emoji: Coffin">
Government incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roadshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🛣" title="Motorway" aria-label="Emoji: Motorway">
People wearing maskshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😷" title="Face with medical mask" aria-label="Emoji: Face with medical mask"> and gloves outside https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧤" title="Gloves" aria-label="Emoji: Gloves">
Government incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roads
People wearing masks
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👮🏻" title="Police officer (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Police officer (light skin tone)"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏻⚕️" title="Woman health worker (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman health worker (light skin tone)"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👲🏻" title="Person with skullcap (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person with skullcap (light skin tone)">
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their familieshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👨👧👦" title="Family (man, girl, boy)" aria-label="Emoji: Family (man, girl, boy)">
69,501 deaths globally so far as at 5 April 2020. 4,932in the UK.
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families
69,501 deaths globally so far as at 5 April 2020. 4,932in the UK.
This is the Novel Coronavirus https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.
Why, you ask, do I write this thread?
Why, you ask, do I write this thread?
When I read it again it will be a reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💕" title="Two hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Two hearts">
We have so much we need to appreciate that we take for granted.
Be thankful. Be gratefulhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😌" title="Relieved face" aria-label="Emoji: Relieved face">
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyonehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">
We are all one! Stay home, stay safe.https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="❤️" title="Red heart" aria-label="Emoji: Red heart">
Be thankful. Be grateful
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone
We are all one! Stay home, stay safe.
