Five Things in Lockdown
The people close to me will probably know that I have not coped with some of the recent changes to society in the best way. I am not doing too badly now but in March my life completely changed. It was as if my four wheels completely fell off and everything stopped. For the benefit of anybody on the planet that does not know what is going on, that was when Covid-19 was declared a worldwide pandemic and the UK joined many other countries around the world in lockdown. Disabled people such as myself, are considered highly vulnerable and have been given stricter measures to shield and isolate. This is not necessarily because we are at higher risk of getting the deadly disease unless our immune system is compromised; it is because if we do contract it, we are more likely to become seriously ill and die. I do not know anybody who is ill with covid-19 and I do wonder if the statistics have been exaggerated slightly to fulfil a larger government agenda but that is a subject for another arti...