5 Year Anniversary of Covid: Did You Remember To Forget?

Without thinking I stumbled into the memory-hole

Misty covid-coloured memories…of the way we were. March 2020: a ring on the calendar or a hole in your head? Five years gone. The first lies -the very biggest- were being announced, broadcast and printed. Disease, death, danger. New, deadly, incurable. Run, hide, shelter in place. A great time to be a politician, a newsreader, a tabloid hack or an internet censor. No bait left unclicked, no apologies necessary. Obey the rules: this is not a request. Power, sweet totalitarian power, there for the taking: A National Emergency, a Global Pandemic. It was national, global and lethal and final -and the only hope was to DO EXACTLY AS YOU’RE TOLD. We’re doing this for your own good so lie back and think of England. Five years later it’s time to ask -how was it for you, darling?