…and it changed the world.
I am still working from home about 40% of the time, and business premises around us have kept the plexiglass screens and ‘keep distance’ signs.
I have also done some language work on academic papers related to inequalities in healthcare for different groups in the population during the pandemic. Access to vaccinations and scarce resources was often unequal across genders, races, and communities. Women usually took over homeschooling even though many were working full time at home, and were also affected by increasing rates of intimate partner violence. There was also lot of corruption during Covid which is so sad. And you realised how, for some reason, toilet paper was VERY IMPORTANT.
Covid changed everything and it seems simultaneously so far away and yet so near.
I still don’t understand why toilet paper was so important… I didn’t use more or less toilet paper during that time. I had heard about the strong increase of domestic violence and this completely broke my heart. My husband is working almost full time from home (he’s a software engineer so I guess he could also work from the beach if there was WiFi access there too!). He only goes to his workplace once or twice a month. I was shocked the other day when one of my students told me she couldn’t come to my class because she had Covid… I had almost forgotten about it!…