My friend Antony sent me this film, which has a running time of less than two minutes. It is set during the pandemic lockdowns, and I think most of us can identify with it.
My friend Antony sent me this film, which has a running time of less than two minutes. It is set during the pandemic lockdowns, and I think most of us can identify with it.
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Granted lock down in the state of Pennsylvania only lasted a month, it became 30 days of being incredibly creative, I also managed to lose weight and grow finger nails. Weirdly the pandemic was comforting and suited our life style (my wife and I ) the only downside was getting Covid on my 50th…that truly was a nightmare I don’t ever want to relive.
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My wife and I led fairly normal lives during the lockdowns in England, as I am retired, and she had to carry on working for our Doctor. We both got finally Covid in December 2022, and were very ill for a few weeks, ruining Christmas, and hanging over until mid-January.
Best wishes, Pete.
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A very conclusive film. This brings back horrible memories. Let’s hope the next virus outbreak will be somewhere else in the universe.
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Fingers crossed for that, Michael.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My mother and I also spent lockdown in a small apartment, so I totally related to this. At least we had each other, but it is very good and many people will connect with it. Thanks for sharing it, Pete, and thanks to Anthony as well.
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Glad to hear you could relate to this film, Olga.
Best wishes, Pete.
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He is very clever as he comes up with ways to pass the time. I especially like the hypnotic effect of staring at the whirligig. The short film really captures isolation.
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Glad to hear you ‘got it’, Elizabeth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was also fortunate that I was able to continue to work. We were only allowed to visit one family at a time, but I didn’t think it was that bad. I always had contacts at work.
Wearing the mask affected me a lot because I have asthma. But I still liked wearing the mask as a precaution.
But I also think, that people who lived alone really have a very stressful time behind them. Someone once said that he now goes shopping every day so that he can meet people. I found that very sad. It was also very stressful for the children and young people not to be able to meet with others, to play or to have a party. They have “lost” two years of their life.
I hope we don’t have to experience something like this again.
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Our life in Beetley stayed much the same, and my wife continued to work because she works for our Doctor. But some people living alone in apartments in cities suffered depression, and I can understand why.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, we can relate!
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I had some friends in London who felt trapped like that. Luckily for us in Beetley, life went on much as normal.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We were more like Beetley than London. The hardest part was teaching via Zoom, and that made me feel disconnected from children. Best to you, Pete.
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I remember glorious weather in Lockdown 2020. We walked around the fields, and Sam spent all Easter up on the roof scraping off moss.
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Yes, we had some great weather. I was able to walk around with Ollie every day, and still went to the supermarket once a week. It wasn’t really much different for me.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Or us, except that I didn’t go to work.
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Julie worked through the whole thing, as the GP surgery remained open.
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I never minded the lockdown … I thought I would, but it suited me, perhaps because I am something of a hermit anyway.
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It didn’t affect me, but I knew people who were very upset by it.
Best wishes, Pete.
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As did I. I found it rather … shallow … when hearing people say, “I just want to go shopping!” while thousands were dying each week.
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If I ever needed confirmation that I never want to end up in a flat or apartment… Front gardens were a godsend. Seems crazy now to recall talking to neighbours over the fence and visitors only allowed in the front garden. Zoom also became a lifeline.
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My life is quite dull by most standards, so I didn’t really notice any drastic changes during lockdown. It would have been very different in the London flat we lived in before moving to Norfolk.
Best wishes, Pete.
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powerful one minute statement showing the experience was different for us all. So if anyone here can’t relate to it, then realise thats how it was for others.
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That sums it up nicely, Gavin.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I think that video speaks for a lot of people. I was fortunate to be already working remotely for my job and my husband had already retired.
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I was lucky too, in that respect. My wife carried on working, as she is in the Health Service. They had lots of restrictions where she works, to ensure the safety of staff and patients.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was very fortunate during the lockdown, but I can appreciate the frustration.
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My life didn’t change, but I can understand how others were affected badly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I so get this. Well done!
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Glad to hear that, Beth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It must have been difficult for people who had to endure the lockdowns alone, especially if they didn’t have countryside or parks to walk in, even for short periods; I was very lucky to have family & friends to talk to & see when restrictions eased. Cheers, Jon.
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My life was much the same during lockdown, Jon. Some people were very depressed by them though.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I thought it was disturbing how quickly we grew accustomed to all the restrictions, Pete…
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Yes, it is worrying how readily people comply in modern times. (Excepot for numerous very entitled politicians of course)
I don’t think we would have done that in the late 1960s, I’m sure I would have rebelled.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Other than having to wear a mask when entering a business, life went on pretty much as usual here in Southern Nevada. On rare occasion, you’d see someone wearing a mask on a desert trail.
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It was obviously a different experience for the film-maker, and I could get the frustration.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I watched the film but I do not understand the message if there is one– it certainly is not a movie with an agenda that I can tell ..and my lockdown experience was somewhat difference because I had the advantage of having access to everything I needed during the period and was not in the least but inconvenienced.
Let me amend that… I did more or less hate the bare toilet paper shelves at the stores so I laid in a three year supply from an online supplier who had a lot of it for sale ….other than that I can barely remember the lockdown period.
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I think it is trying to show the frustration of one man alone during lockdown, John. I didn’t experience that so seriously myself, but could still appreciate the point.
Best wishes, Pete
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I appreciated the point too.
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